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Old February 13th, 2013 #25
Jimmy Marr
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I'll do anything to avoid hiring an expert. My most notable failure was trying to prove to my wife and kids that it didn't require a fucking genius to tune a piano.

Some things a hard to fake. And the piano tuner's guild is a hard one to break. I couldn't get my hands on the specialized tools and instrumentation, so ended breaking down and calling a goddamned tuner.

He was scheduled to arrive at 9:00AM. I woke up that morning with a hangover to find that one or more of my 5 dogs had eaten an entire bottle of Vitamin A. Resisting the hiring of a vet, I sent my wife to the store to fetch a large quantity of hydrogen peroxide and began purging the leading canine suspect.

As fate would have it, I struck the scent of fish oil in the fifth suspect, and by that time I was already up to my ankles in frothy dog puke when the piano tuner rang the doorbell.

The fucker earned his keep that day.