So i'm driving to the grocery store about an hour ago and it's been storming today here in northern California so as i'm trying to find a parking spot i see this kid couldn't have been more than sixteen years old walking around with an American Standard Stratocaster IN THE POURING RAIN/HAIL what is wrong with kids today? i pulled up next to him and told him it would be a good idea to get his guitar out of the rain and he just told me to $@!& off. kids these days have no respect, i'm not too old myself (24) but i can at least know when to show respect

Thats that instrument RSPCA thing I was talking about. A guitar like that should be rescued!

CC

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i tell you what, i wanted to knock that little bugger upside the head for the way he acted toward me and the fact that he was exposing that fine instrument to the rain and hail i vote we start the RSPCI (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Instruments) or here in the states the SPCI (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Instruments)

just blows me away

It's not nice. Last year I took a 'normal' job so I could get a credit card to cure a HUGE case of GAS and when I was in a customers house I couldn't believe what I saw. He had 5h1t all over his walls, well brown stuff anyway. I wasn't getting close enough to examine! The place stank and he had all these pedals scattered on the floor and huge pile of rubbish in the corner.

While he was away to get his details so I could sign him up I noticed among the mess a Gibson case lying open with nothing inside it, then when I closely inspected that pile of cans and crisp packets in the corner to my horror a Gibson LP headstock was peeping out and caked with dust.

It was horrible and I will never forget that neglected guitar in the dirty house.

CC

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Fender Telecaster 72 Custom RI
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Gretsch Electromatic Pro-Jet
Gibson Les Paul Standard Plus
Gibson ES-135
Zenith Type-17
Marshall 70's JMP Superbass 100w
Blackstar HT-5

dear god! that poor poor Gibson, i remember the horror upon inspecting the pile of ash that was my house last year to see nothing left of my Les Paul standard gold top but a bridge a truss rod and a pickup first time in years i actually broke down and cried

If the kid wants to mess up his guitar, let him. I know where my Fender is, and you probably do too. More money than brains.

i miss that Les Paul more than anything in the world, it was insured and replaced but it can never be the same

That's terrible about your LP. I feel for you mate.

CC

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Fender Telecaster 72 Custom RI
Fender Telecoustic Deluxe
Gretsch Electromatic Pro-Jet
Gibson Les Paul Standard Plus
Gibson ES-135
Zenith Type-17
Marshall 70's JMP Superbass 100w
Blackstar HT-5

lesson learned in life $@!& HAPPENS but that's why i invested in a huge fireproof gun safe to keep my babies in

Maybe he was trying to do the fast track to being "relic'ed"

if by "relic'ed" you mean completely $@!&*% than yes

You should have offered him a visit from Kim and Aggie in exchange for the Gibbo.


In my early 20's I was contracted to Birmingham City council to do rip out/refit and repair work. There were some sights I'll never recover from seeing. Another great failing of the care in the community program.

One family had page3 pictures all over the walls. Literally as wallpaper. The man of the house had been round every one of them and drawn moustaches and glasses on them in black marker pen. He'd also coloured the nipples in too.
Looking around his lounge there was a 3ft high statue of elvis that he'd done exactly the same with.

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Well the difference is you were brought up with respect and manners. Thats the type of idiot that just walks in and plugs in to a 100 watt head and wakes up in the hospital with a good shock to the system.

I'm more saddened by the kid's response to you. I'm not naive. I know people have been pretty lousy to each other since Og first hit Gugg over the head with a rock because he wanted Gugg's cavemate. But as a society we seem to have completely abandoned all sense of public civility and decorum now.

I mean, what would it have cost that kid to just say,"Thanks man, I know, but I just got caught without the case"? Or have we gotten to the point where any concession at all to acknowledging the validity of the opinion of another human being constitutes an intolerable loss of "cred"?

When an interaction starts with acrimony, there's pretty much no where it can go but down.