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Guitar Center fail - but with a twist
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You don't know that for sure. This being the internet, I could be DB Cooper for all you know!
LOL!! If you are DB Cooper allow me to buy you a drink. Or send you a bitcoin for one since you're far too cagey to agree to a F2F with anybody if you are. I have a certain grudging respect (as does the FBI I'm told) for that one. Creative, original, and nobody hurt beyond being threatened - something that I suppose is unavoidable in a heist, no matter how artistic.
Ain't that the truth. I was expecting 2-3 comments.
The tongue in cheek comments are getting taken WAY too seriously and then there's the guys who want to heap on you for not bending over backwards to suit those entitled people.
Politely at first of course
Maybe suggest they go use the acoustic room or vintage room if they want more privacy. Anything wrong with that?
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Nuttin' at all. I was referring to the "no more mister nice guy" part. It's easy to be jaded and surrender to the dark side, lol. IMHO, it's better, but can be difficult to fight the good fight and love whoever is in front of you (when possible).Politely at first of course
I was also a little surprised the last time I went to GC. I walked into the Acoustic room and found several young guys pretty much performing for their friends while being videoed and they were all giving me dirty looks as I guess I was bothering them and I hadn't even picked up an instrument.
So I then walk into the back acoustic room, where the more expensive guitars are, and there I find an older man and maybe his son performing together. The older guy then starts giving me dirty looks also which I took to mean I better not disrupt their performance. Now I could have picked up something anyway and not cared about what any of them thought, but I was still pretty surprised at what I was seeing and also at their reactions towards me walking in there.
Had I actually seen something that I liked, I probably would have played it anyway because I am a paying customer and would have liked to have seen if anyone would have told me anything as I was already a little upset with the looks I was getting. Having not seen anything I liked I just left and haven’t been back since. I wonder if any of them actually purchased anything or just indulged themselves with their personal little concerts that day?
So I then walk into the back acoustic room, where the more expensive guitars are, and there I find an older man and maybe his son performing together. The older guy then starts giving me dirty looks also which I took to mean I better not disrupt their performance. Now I could have picked up something anyway and not cared about what any of them thought, but I was still pretty surprised at what I was seeing and also at their reactions towards me walking in there.
Had I actually seen something that I liked, I probably would have played it anyway because I am a paying customer and would have liked to have seen if anyone would have told me anything as I was already a little upset with the looks I was getting. Having not seen anything I liked I just left and haven’t been back since. I wonder if any of them actually purchased anything or just indulged themselves with their personal little concerts that day?
OP questions his own response.
TBers give different opinions.
Some TBers don't like the other's takes.
Interesting because it isn't do you prefer a J or a P question.
The responses covered a range of possible human behaviors.
Hmmm.
I wonder if I needed to learn...
A: that I could demand my rights?
B: to be flexible and not take my visit to GC so seriously?
C: some comeback that would have made George Costanza proud, if he'd actually said it?
My take. You can't lose being nice. (It's it's own reward. But hey, Dad might have paid you to teach his kid lessons.)
TBers give different opinions.
Some TBers don't like the other's takes.
Interesting because it isn't do you prefer a J or a P question.
The responses covered a range of possible human behaviors.
Hmmm.
I wonder if I needed to learn...
A: that I could demand my rights?
B: to be flexible and not take my visit to GC so seriously?
C: some comeback that would have made George Costanza proud, if he'd actually said it?
My take. You can't lose being nice. (It's it's own reward. But hey, Dad might have paid you to teach his kid lessons.)
OP questions his own response.
TBers give different opinions.
Some TBers don't like the other's takes.
Interesting because it isn't do you prefer a J or a P question.
The responses covered a range of possible human behaviors.
Hmmm.
I wonder if I needed to learn...
A: that I could demand my rights?
B: to be flexible and not take my visit to GC so seriously?
C: some comeback that would have made George Costanza proud, if he'd actually said it?
My take. You can't lose being nice. (It's it's own reward. But hey, Dad might have paid you to teach his kid lessons.)
P bass. No question. Heh.
Yeah, I've always been surprised when I see people actually making a performance out of their visit. I don't get it!
The worst was when two guys were playing off each other right beside the sales desk, louder, and Louder, and LOUDER
until finally they asked them to turn it down, three separate times
It seemed as if they had practiced this routine a lot, or maybe I was just not tuned in that they had improvised & played off one another in the spur of the moment.
If I was there I would have started screeching while smashing all the basses in the room to establish my dominance. No one messes with my shopping experience.
This past weekend, I was at the Nashville store. They had a 93 Warwick Streamer Stage II 5 string I wanted to check out. I already have a 2000 Stage II 5, and a 2001 Stage II 5 Fretless. I wanted the 93 as a backup to my fretted model (I didn't buy it due to the cost, but it was a SWEET bass).
Anyway, I'm minding my own business with it plugged into the smallest MarkBass combo when another customer comes over and starts making unsolicited comments about how heavy Warwicks are, doesn't like neckthrough basses, comments about brass frets. "I won't play any bass over 9 lbs" - "I only buy green basses." I mean it was just the weirdest encounter I've ever had with anyone in a store. It was like the embodiment of Talkbass keyboard-warriors all wrapped up in this one guy. I just said to each his own, that I also have a P-Bass and I love it, and have never found the weight of Warwicks to be a problem. "Try playing a gig with one!" - lol - I was just thinking yeah I've had my share of those with NT Streamers and I survived. I finished checking out the bass and left when he started tapping on a white (not green!) P-Bass. It was just comical.
Anyway, I'm minding my own business with it plugged into the smallest MarkBass combo when another customer comes over and starts making unsolicited comments about how heavy Warwicks are, doesn't like neckthrough basses, comments about brass frets. "I won't play any bass over 9 lbs" - "I only buy green basses." I mean it was just the weirdest encounter I've ever had with anyone in a store. It was like the embodiment of Talkbass keyboard-warriors all wrapped up in this one guy. I just said to each his own, that I also have a P-Bass and I love it, and have never found the weight of Warwicks to be a problem. "Try playing a gig with one!" - lol - I was just thinking yeah I've had my share of those with NT Streamers and I survived. I finished checking out the bass and left when he started tapping on a white (not green!) P-Bass. It was just comical.
Hey, I'm still waiting for the punchline. I thought you were building up to a good one. That story started out like "Three bassists walked into a bar..."
Yes they do. And it's fascinating when you encounter them in their natural habitat. Great time for a passive aggressive convo:
"I won't play a bass over 9 lbs."
"Me neither... I draw the line at 12. Maybe 13"
"I only buy green basses"
"I only buy basses I can see"
"XYZ amps are the best. They rule, the others drool"
"I agree. I even heard that Ringo used one on that 69 Buick rear brake he was banging on on "My Sweet Lord".
"Joe D. Blow was the greatest bassist ever!"
"I drive a Subaru. They have the best mudflaps!"
"Primus sucks!"
"Well... yeah"
As to the OP, I've seen weirder stuff in stores so I'd probably shake my head and keep it moving. Or just start playing "Stairway...". It's a toss--up really. Sometimes I like to mess with strangers.
I would have said: "Sorry, I don't speak, nor understand, English". They would have really been looking at me quizzically!
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