Miscellaneous: Today, I went into a music store to look into getting a new guitar....

By Anonymous - 26/05/2010 18:03 - Canada

Today, I went into a music store to look into getting a new guitar. I picked up one that I was interested in and tried it out quietly. A sales representative approached me and asked me to "stop the noise and leave the guitars for serious customers." I've been playing for almost ten years. FML

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By Z88 - 21/04/2010 20:29 - South Africa

Today, a customer came into the music shop I work in to look at guitars. After calling the customer "Dude," and "Man," numerous times, they stalked off suddenly. When I asked if everything was okay, they responded with, "I'm female, you asshole!" FML

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By SomeoneElse - 14/07/2009 13:39 - United Kingdom

Today, I was in a music shop looking for a new guitar when someone called out someone else's name and jumped on my back. I lost balance and fell forward and broke 3 guitars and damaged another 6. The guy said "Sorry, thought you were someone else" and ran out. I now have to pay £2500. FML

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By a little less poor at least - 21/04/2013 16:03 - United States - Cleveland

Today, I was trying sell a customer a top-of-the-line surround sound system. Apparently he was aware that I work on commission, as he threatened to buy the system elsewhere unless I sang Rebecca Black's "Friday" in front of the whole store. Goodbye, self-respect. FML

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By Renna303 - 18/09/2017 20:00

Today, I dropped my 6-month-old $3,500 guitar. Luckily, it had a one year warranty from the store so I drove back. It was shut down. FML

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MAKE IT STOP

By anonymous198913 - 04/02/2017 12:00 - United States - San Francisco

Today, I learned how to play "Happy Birthday" on the guitar, just to have my friend tell me that my voice sucks, and that I needed to stop immediately. FML

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By Anonymous - 06/05/2009 20:12 - Canada

Today, after practicing a song for my girlfriend on guitar all day, I called her over to my house to show it to her. After a long speech about how "this is for you," I played for about 3 seconds before I broke a string, which slapped her in her face. FML

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Relic job

By Anonymous - 29/05/2015 19:18 - Canada - Toronto

Today, I had to explain to my little sister that not all guitars are supposed to have a hole in them, that when I was talking about "breaking it in" I didn't mean I'd smash a hole in it, and that she shouldn't have taken a hammer to my expensive new guitar. FML

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By Anonymous - 16/11/2009 18:14 - Canada

Today, my sister was playing a rock star in a play. When she got home, she told me she used one of my old guitars, because I told her it was ok. I said she could take one to practice on, not destroy on stage. FML

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By Anonymous - 30/07/2013 06:52 - United States - Crystal Lake

Today, I was at a piano lesson playing a song I had worked very hard to make perfect. Halfway through, my teacher abruptly stops me and asks, "Did you notice that I rearranged the furniture?" FML

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Bad omen or what?

By Chipper - 09/06/2009 00:14 - United States

Today, I was playing piano for a wedding rehearsal. Bored, I decided to pass the time playing through a book of music I found in the piano bench. Some time later the bride turned to me and screamed at me to stop. I had turned the page and had begun to play "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off." FML

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JesseJaymz 0

Wednesday 26 May 2010 23:33

ouch. time to switch to the triangle.

MollyCookies 0

Wednesday 26 May 2010 23:33

Maybe he thought that all you were gonna do was just play with them and not actually buy anything? Haha always gotta think on the bright side.

Comments

iimthomas 0

Wednesday 26 May 2010 23:37

shouldve went to the manager for that one, ydi it

ZeusBeDubsteppin 24

Saturday 23 May 2015 10:02

if i werr OP id look the employee in the eyes, dead-pan stare, and shred on yhe guitar.

mikagesouji 0

Wednesday 26 May 2010 23:39

LOL wow! xD

hedgehogs 0

Wednesday 26 May 2010 23:42

I hope you walked out and never buy another thing from them. Also, hope you let the management know what happened and why a serious musician won't be buying from them again.

flippyyfeatherr 0

Wednesday 26 May 2010 23:50

i modded :D

Firetroop 0

Thursday 27 May 2010 2:15

Probably so did thousands of other people. An FML doesn't go through just one person before being submitted to the staff.

nerwende_fml 0

Wednesday 26 May 2010 23:52

You should have told them to leave the job and leave it to capable people. Hope you tell everybody not to go there, see how they like that :)

tasha_caliente 0

Wednesday 26 May 2010 23:56

who noes mayb u were never good and no one had the hert to tell u tht yr not good

QuitetheDuffles 0

Thursday 27 May 2010 0:02

Chances are he's just really narrow-minded.. Like if someone came into a store and started playing death metal, 99% of the people there would recognise that as noise whereas most of it actually takes quite a lot of skill to play. Just pure ignorance OP, don't worry about it, unfortunately it's way too common today :)

dubstep87 0

Thursday 27 May 2010 0:09

you prob suck

parapeople 5

Thursday 27 May 2010 0:14

Sucks... Most music stores I've been in allow everyone to try the instruments, even encourage people to try them out.

Bob343434 10

Sunday 6 May 2012 2:57

Yeah, I was looking at guitars with absolutely 0 experience and no one said anything about me strumming random strings

KVKdragon 26

Thursday 27 May 2010 0:18

I hope you told the salesman that you're an expert and threatened to complain to his boss. if you do report him and other workers ask if you really are good, wow them with your expertise and get the dude in trouble. simple plan. it's usually guaranteed that you'd win since the customer is always right and the salesman was pushy towards you.