[pianotech] Why I asked Dale to please not share photos of the felt cutter with everyone.......

[Susan Kline]

Euphonious, is there some reason you are staying there?

Condolences on what sounds like the worst job from hell I've ever heard 
of. Makes my visit to the guy newly out of jail, whose beady-eyed mother 
was sitting on the porch with a shotgun, seem like an ice cream social.

Susan Kline

On 5/13/2012 6:59 PM, Euphonious Thumpe wrote:
> *The last customer I had here ( before deciding to only fix pianos as 
> a hobby) presented me with a reeking house full of literal garbage 
> waist-high in some rooms, a piano full of mouse poops, and grinning 
> tales of tying people to bumpers and dragging them down gravel roads, 
> tying them to chairs and pulling out their toenails, and etc.. 
> Naturally, I wanted to grab my tools and split; but knew that would 
> create in him suspicions that I was going to the police ( and then I'd 
> be his next victim---he knows where my shop is!) so, for personal 
> safety, stood there and listened to these disgusting stories while 
> grinning, as if in approval! The spiritual damage to me, although 
> temporary, was severe: I shook for days on account of it. So I'm no 
> longer officially "in business" here as a piano technician, and am 
> supremely grateful for a friend with a house that needs much fixing up!