Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Of parents & sheer ignorance

I was in a guitar store a few days ago; it's only normal my addiction brought me to such venues, yes? While I was scrutinizing a guitar, in came a lady with her son. On tow was an acoustic guitar with a broken string.

"We just bought this guitar last week, some of the strings are rusty & this one's broken."

Upon some probing, her son admitted to over-tightening the broken piece in an attempt to re-tune the instrument. Wiping the strings down after each play was never in his practical vocabulary.

When you are interested in all things guitar, please be informed of the strings being expendables. If you can't understand what this means, it's very similar to your dad buying a car & having to bear with the tyre-related costs. He is out of his mind if he goes back to the seller telling him the tyre has worn out since he bought it some days back & one of them is punctured. You also need to tell your mum (or dad) to refrain from pivoting on a cause which would only reflect her ignorance on the matter. Tsk, tsk, tsk...

1 comment:

Ijau D. Koceng said...

same goes with computers too...