Today, whilst tuning my guitar, one of the steel strings snapped and hit me in the face. Now I'm on my way to my first date with the girl of my dreams, and I'm wearing an eye patch and have a thick red line across my face. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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
Today, while tuning my bass guitar, I noticed a very strange screeching sound. I leaned over to look behind the neck. The biggest string snapped off and cut the side of my face. FML
Today, while playing on stage, the singer of my band swung his microphone around, straight into my face. I now have stitches above my right eye, and a job interview in three days. FML
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
Today, my band went to play a set for the first time. I'm the drummer. All was going well, and then before our first song I threw the sticks in the air, went to catch them, and one hit me right in the eye. I couldn't continue playing. Now I have to wear an eyepatch. FML
Today, I was jamming out and playing some air guitar. I somehow managed to knee myself directly in my left eye socket. I now have a hideously swollen face and a black eye. When people ask me what happened, I'll be hesitant to tell the truth. FML
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
Today, I forgot to tune my guitar pre-performance. Surprising, because it was in tune when I frantically did it by ear backstage. Too bad two of the six strings snapped, smacking the drummer in the face. FML
Today, I was playing my guitar and singing on the street corner. I did earn money, when some guy threw a quarter out of his car window for me. It hit me in the face. I now have a circle shaped bruise under my eye. FML
Today, I was on webcam for the first time with a guy I've been texting for a while. Trying to show off my guitar skills, I lean down to pick it up and fell on my face. FML
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anthonydpalm 18
Chin up OP. Maybe when you tell her that you play guitar, she'll be impressed and you'll get to play for her on your second date!
Elban 20
If you can play the guitar at least decently for her she might understand and appreciate the sacrifices you sometimes have to make.
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Comments (94)
SubaruWRXSTI 16
If she is truly a dreamy girl she will overlook the eye patch and understand it will heal eventually.
secret4468 7
If she is the girl of your dreams she won't care
TheNewGuy03 29
I legitimately laughed out loud at this. Well played.
_EnderDoge 22
I know the feeling.. But the worst part would be the string snapping, at least, to me.
ThrottleJockey 36
Just tell her that you play guitar, and she'll realize that you have magic fingers. ;-)
manuwish 9
Op, I'm sure she'll even be a little impressed that you didn't want to miss the date, even though you were injured :) tell her the truth though, lies never go well!!!
rosecolas 15
You should change your guitar strings every season, (every three month or so.) Your string snapped Bc they were old, and you didn't change them for a while. Hope you feel better soon. Snapping strings are bitches, I haven't had a popped string before, but I'm always afraid of it happening. I use a tuner and keep it as far away from it as possible.
Shadow73 13
Wow. I'm hearing that you look like a Bond villain.
moondoglou420 17
Get a captains hat and a parrot, you can still play this off.
Zest_fml 12
What I want to know is how you made the string so tight it popped. What were you trying to tune it to? Definitely not standard. Anyone with a good amount of experience who uses their ear while tuning should be able to know if they're tuning it way too far. Unless those strings were really, really, REALLY old I can't see that happening. I've had the same strings on my guitar for about a year and they've never popped. (I'm bad with putting the strings on and don't want to be bothered). FYL but at least you look cool.
Egtat216 13
The string was faulty and was wired incorrectly in the middle...I just didn't notice till it went....