Today, I went in my room to play my guitar. I found my Les Paul on the floor with all the strings missing. I later found out my grandma cut them off because I was playing "Devil's Music." FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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, I had to babysit my dying grandmother, so I brought up my guitar. She hadn't said anything to anyone today, and the first thing and only thing she said was, "Stop. Make it stop" to me when I played. 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, I finally had enough to buy my dream guitar, made in 1965. I buckled it into the passenger seat because it unfortunately didn't come with the original case. Once home, I tripped over my own feet before reaching my front door and scratched it on the concrete. It wasn't in mint condition when I bought it, but now it looks like it had a bad relic job. 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 house was broken into. How? My mom left a key under a flower pot on the porch. She also left a note on the door saying so. He stole all of my guitars. FML
Today, I accidentally left some music playing on my iPad, then left to do some errands. When I came back, I found it smashed into a million pieces. Apparently, grandpa couldn't find any other way to "shut off that goddamn music." FML
Today, I was told by my neighbors that my guitar playing sounded a dying cat. 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, 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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iWanna_fml 0
wowwww. tell her that she owes u the money for it now xD
mycleverusername 0
I don't think Grandma's familiar with the Golden Rule. I say you steal her knitting needles. That'll show her.
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Comments (247)
flgirlwguitar 2
If it was on the floor, who knows what else is damaged? Strings are cheap. Pickups, not necessarily. And for the record, I quit playing guitar for years in college because I couldn't afford to restring it. Just because it's inexpensive doesn't mean its affordable for all.
dofoos 0
cutting off all the strings is bad for the neck. I'd be more worried abou that than the money
zack767 0
use the strings to strangle her
roxorz 0
burn the bitch, and tell her shes a heretic. its not about the money its about the principle which is, shes a bitch
Sweny 0
steal her medicine!! thatll teach grandma
xRainmaker 0
Oh god, I would've killed her. I have a Les Paul as well.. and even though it's not my favourite of my guitars, I still love it. At least you can replace the strings. (Y)
Six_and_the_Moon 3
My childhood friend's mother was like this. She became a Jehovah's Witness when my friend was about eight, and did shit like this all through her teen years. Forced meetings, music posters ripped off walls and thrown in the trash, broken cassettes, lectures, arguments, the whole works. They never had one conversation that didn't end in screaming. *sigh*
Pandasaur 0
Geez. So many people commenting with things like, "Stop whining, changing the strings isn't hard, waaah you crybaby." OP's grandma was a jerk for no reason. She damaged something that belonged to him--maybe not severely, but still. If I went up to your car and purposely--but lightly--scratched it, you'd be mad. It doesn't cost much to repair a minor scratch, but you'd still be mad at me for doing it. Same situation.
angelicaisaipom 0
That makes me kind of mad.
DynamicDave 11
YDI for playing devil's music.
birds_fml 7
I wouldn't be mad if you scratched my car because I wouldn't be able to tell your scratch from all the others and the dings and rust LOL But still, this sucks. Steal some money out of her purse to pay for any damage done. Old people don't trust credit cards and debit cards and usually carry around a lot of cash. Then go buy a locked case or something.
Pandasaur 0
Haha, good point. Maybe the car example wasn't the best one.
Microsoftfan 0
That is true. I hate how hypocrisy is at its finest right now.
Gavik 0
This is why we need health care reform and death panels.