Klarinet Archive - Posting 000654.txt from 1999/07

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Hack repairs
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 12:11:20 -0400

Christopher Hill wrote,
>It was tempting in my days as a repair person to charge an "idiot's fine"
when somebody did something particularly stupid. >

I love these stories! (And given my recent interest in learning to do simple
repairs, I'm afraid I'll feature in one of them, one of these days....)
Sounds to me like you all need the type of sign I hung in my stained glass
studio, where I had to try to undo a lot of amateur repair work. Among other
things, I removed bubblegum that some knucklehead had carefully squeezed down
into the longest strip of lead channel along the bottom of a glass mosaic
window, to stop up a leak. He had sealed a 3-foot section of window this way
and it all had to come out. (Rubber gloves. Benzene. Awl and dental picks.
Respirator.) My sign:

REPAIRS
$25 per hour
$50 if you watch
$60 if you help
$80 if you worked on it first

Lelia
(Soon to be found sitting on a sidewalk near you, with a sign that says,
"Idiot, strong for my size and deadly with vice-grips. Will work for reeds.")

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