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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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, after spending months learning how to play the guitar and memorizing the music to my girlfriend's all-time favorite song, I performed it for her. Her response? "Well, you kind of ruined that song for me now." 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, I was trying to impress a girl I like by showing off my guitar skills at a party. I'd hyped it up all night. When I finally started playing, I’d forgotten most of the chords and lyrics to the song, and ended up just strumming "Wonderwall" while humming off-key. She left halfway through the "performance." FML
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
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
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, 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
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
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
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Top comments
AgentMull 0
How close was your girlfriend to your guitar? Was she making out with it? I don't see how a string would have hit her unless she was right next to it.
RARE 0
My string just broke on Monday. Oh wait...its wednesday...Maybe I should buy new strings. By the way I know how you feel about this. Its tough being a sexy musician.
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Comments (137)
czechitout 0
Does anyone find it ironic that the same people who need the ego-boost by correcting someone's spelling are the same ones who are ignorant enough not to know that "practising" is an acceptable spelling in other countries? *SIGHHHH* REALITY CHECK :P
dymmeh 0
so, spelling aside.. how do you show someone a song?
hk_fml 9
I was just thinking that #19, that it could cause some serious damage if the string snapped and got her right in the face
mangoid 0
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.
SynysterV17 3
Dude as a guitar player I feel for ya man I hope she's not too pissed off and can find it sweet that you attempted to woo her. also make sure the strings aren't too tight on the guitar.
Panicattackx5 0
Unless she was hugging the damn thing, I doubt it'd just snap her in the face. I've had strings break and pop out of place and they never snap like that
oh_dee 0
These comments make me laugh almost as much as the post did... But hey, it was really sweet of you to practice/practise a song for your girlfriend like that! I'm sure she'll forgive you; it's not like you did it on purpose...
NoNeak 0
when a string cuts, it's like a whip...so it's like his gf was like at least 2 feet away...max 3 ft.... it sucks that you gf got hurt(and it wasn't in her eyes...), but at least your left hand is fine...xD i cut 2 fingers once...daaaaaamn.... good luck next time...=P
plethora 3
Shit happens.
alex_vik 1
How long has it been since your last string change? Consider yourself lucky that you can get four packs of guitar strings for the price of one pack of bass strings.
wowyoufailed 0
amen. as a player of both instruments, both having strings break and having to buy new packs sucks dick. I broke a string a while ago that left a gash running down my left forearm :(