Our dryer stopped working mysteriously last night. My husband took it apart today and did all sorts of diagnostic magic with it and it appeared to him that everything was working correctly. And yet the dryer would still not dry.
Finally, he called a repairman who, as a kindness to us, left another job and drove 20 minutes to our house only to find that our son had flipped a switch we didn’t even know existed and turned the heat off for the dryer! The repairman was very good-natured and chuckled about the whole situation and was even good enough to help my husband put the dryer back together. And at the end, he didn’t even charge us for his visit.
We were moved by his kindness and went out to purchase a gift certificate for him for a local restaurant that we enjoy. Then on to the note… what is a good way to thank someone for their time? You can approach it like any other gift. The only commodity people in the service industry have is their time, so it’s the equivalent of someone from a store giving away merchandise or the manager of a restaurant giving away free food.
This is how we did our note. Feel free to borrow the wording as needed!
Dan,
Thank you for coming by so promptly today to fix our dryer problem. I appreciate the generous gift of your time. Enclosed is a gift certificate to XYZ Cafe. I hope you’ll enjoy a meal on us!
Stanley Politeguy
Tags: Etiquette, letter writing, letters, thank you, thank you notes
