[pianotech] what woudl you do?

[tnrwim at aol.com]

Thanks to all of you who replied. Apparently I did the wrong thing by staying to finish the tuning. Next time. I'll leave and let the customer know why.

In my 38 years of tuning, I've been alone in a house with a teenager maybe 6 times, and I've never had any problems. As one person said, they are mostly interested in watching TV or talking on the phone. I've even been asked to keep an eye on an 8 or 10 year old boy when the mother took 10 minutes to pick up another kid from school. 

Maybe I'm too trusting, and don't think of the consequences of what might happen. But I'll certainly keep the suggestions in mind the next time anything happens. On the hand, in the eyes of the teenager, when your older then most of their grandparents, they probably don't think I can "do" anything, anyway.. 

Wim


 



-----Original Message-----
From: David Nereson <da88ve at gmail.com>
To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Thu, May 17, 2012 12:17 pm
Subject: Re: [pianotech] what woudl you do?


  I'd be more concerned about getting her cold just from bacteria
irculating in the air or on the keys (!) than I would be about
nything else.  I hate it when people schedule me when somebody in the
ouse is sick.  If you've already been tuning for them for 4 years,
here shouldn't be a problem.
  I've tuned for many people when just the teenage daughter is home.
he clients have no worries because I've been recommended highly by
heir friends, relatives, neighbors, whoever.  I go in, proceed
irectly to the piano, barely even acknowledging the daughter, and
tart in.  Any kids who might be home are usually way more interested
n watching TV or talking on the phone or whatever else they do than
atching a piano being tuned (borrrrr-ing!!).
   When done, I may call out (if nobody's in the room), "I'm all
inished.  Thank you!" and leave the bill or collect the check they
eft on the table, and leave.
   It would only be perhaps one girl in more than thousand of whom I
ight be leery that she might accuse me of some kind of advance or
olestation, and that would only be if by some inappropriate glance,
esture, or comment we got off on a "bad note" (pun intended).  But I
on't give any inappropriate glances or gestures.  I come in, tune the
iano, and leave.  I just plain don't worry about it.
  --David Nereson, RPT

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