Miscellaneous: Today, my girlfriend and her mother bought a hanger for my $2000...

By nicrus - 15/09/2016 20:13 - Norway

Today, my girlfriend and her mother bought a hanger for my $2000 guitar as a birthday present. They wanted to surprise me by hanging it on the wall. They screwed it upside down, so before I came home it fell off and my guitar broke. 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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Anyway, here's Wonderwall

By Anonymous - 01/04/2009 05:47 - United States

Today, I was walking down the street with my acoustic guitar on my back. I saw a girl that I like coming down the opposite way, so I decided to play my guitar to try and impress her. I started to tune it quickly, but while I wasn't paying attention, I ran into a pole. Now my guitar is cracked. FML

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By daRN - 02/07/2009 19:34 - Bahrain

Today, my sister just had a huge fight with my mom. After that, she thought it was appropriate to smash my $1,000 guitar to "blow off some steam." FML

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By Anonymous - 21/01/2013 17:04 - United States

Today, while video chatting with my girlfriend, who lives on the other side of the country, I thought I'd play a song for her on my guitar. The string broke and hit me in the face. I burst into tears and had to hang up. FML

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By ButtWorthSingingBout - 01/01/2015 18:16 - United States - Phoenix

Today, my boyfriend finally played the new guitar I bought to replace the one he broke. He used a $1000 guitar to play me a moving song about my butt. FML

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Jay Mascis Jazzmaster?

By Anonymous - 29/01/2022 20:01

Today, my mother started nagging me for spending $500 on a guitar, stating that, "We're not in the mood for unnecessary bullcrap." I paid for it with MY money, and she suddenly turned up at MY house because my father kicked her out of their house after finding out that she cheated on him. 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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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 Anonymous - 29/12/2010 02:52 - United States

Today, I came home and was greeted by my dad telling me that he pawned my guitar for gas money. FML

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Hotwife and blues lawyer

By Anonymous - 10/11/2021 14:00 - United States - Shingle Springs

Today, I have a new guitar on its way. I forgot to make up a story, so now my wife won't be happy. FML

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hellobobismyname 24

Friday 16 September 2016 11:09

People really shouldn't touch other people's instruments, especially one that costs so much. It was a nice thought but a $2000 guitar will be tough to replace, especially since instruments are like children to musicians :( FYL

ab290 10

Friday 16 September 2016 10:53

wonder what you will hang there now lol

Comments

RichardPencil 30

Friday 16 September 2016 13:54

I'm sorry to hear about your guitar. How are you going to practice your fingering now?

JamalAtTheStore 5

Friday 16 September 2016 23:01

Why does this have so many downvotes? People on FML have no sense of humor...

Etweens96 25

Friday 16 September 2016 14:17

Oh god I always was suspicious of those things!! I am so so sorry about your guitar! I'm a guitarist myself and I couldn't imagine if that happened to me. Stay strong OP!

DanielleinDC 33

Friday 16 September 2016 19:51

I'm sorry, OP. I'm sure they meant well, but that's probably ice cold comfort. Can the guitar be repaired? If so, they should pay for it.

stressedartist 14

Friday 16 September 2016 20:25

Well hey, good intentions, right?

MoMo77224 3

Friday 16 September 2016 21:18

They might have broken your expensive guitar but they had good intentions behind it so in this case its the thought that counts

thraax 14

Friday 16 September 2016 22:40

My condolences go out to you. Losing a guitar is always heartbreaking :,(

Brain_fart 20

Friday 16 September 2016 22:55

Happy Birthday? :/

tj4234 35

Friday 16 September 2016 23:56

How badly broken is it? It's possible it could be repaired by a Luthier

vguy90 6

Friday 16 September 2016 23:58

I think a bit of my soul just shattered.. I cannot imagine how devastating it was to come home to that.. :( I would cry if any of my guitars broke, especially by somebody else's hands.

manuwish 9

Saturday 17 September 2016 0:30

..stairway to hell is paved with good intentions..so frustrating when someone trying to be nice and make you happy winds up screwing everything up :( hope you find a positive outcome from the repairs or through them..