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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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, 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 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
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 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 lying on the sofa when the phone rang. I jumped up to answer in time. I knocked over my laptop, and kicked my guitar into a glass causing it to smash. It was a wrong number. FML
Today, while I was singing a song with my guitar at a college open mic, my eyes started to burn, causing me to tear up and stop playing. Everyone in the audience thought I'd actually started to cry mid-performance. I ended up having to leave the stage teary-eyed and embarrassed myself in front of everyone. FML
Today, I had a video call with a couple of old friends, but the conversation sort of got boring, so I started mouthing words so they'd think the connection was bad and end the awkwardness. Then, as soon as they hung up the call, I realized I'd left my music on in the background the whole time. 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 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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I_iz_B_a_troll 24
Sounds like a Taylor Swift song. Teardrops on your guitar? Right?...
dpr130498 7
That's happened to me before. Nothing to be ashamed of, it hurts like shit :)
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Comments (96)
pieman528 10
She'll just think it was sweet and you're sensitive and other good boyfriend traits. This might actually be racking you up some points.
Shrouds 14
had that happen to me before. it really hurts, luckily it did not hit your eye.
Coop817 19
She might be more upset that you hung up on her than anything else
Gunnie 24
I think she would understand.
GothickNihilist 15
I seriously hope it wasn't a steel string guitar. The pain of the tension being released from any guitar string hitting your face hurts, but a steel string can leave a scar. I only know this because I cut my leg falling on a steel string guitar and have six long scars from it.
m4nduh 7
That's terrible. F both of your lives, I'm a guitarist and it has never happened to me.
GothickNihilist 15
Im not even a guitarist. My friend needed me to sign for her furniture delivery, and had the bright idea to leave her guitar next to her couch. I fell and ripped open my leg. She's a few puppies short of a pet shop( in other words an idiot )
Soloman212 28
Might as well start playing now, if you've already suffered one of the worst possible consequences.
zoreom 16
Big failure for you, But a laughter for your girlfriend.
KiddNYC1O 22
Aww. There there, Delilah.
KBoMb240 3
Smooooooth
Gunnie 24
Aaw I feel sorry for you OP! :/ But what you were trying to do was very nice! :)
Relenaz 9
I feel bad for the OP, but at the same time that made me laugh. XD
TheMystery13 13
When I was a student at Guitar Institute of Technology, there was a guy who came in one day with an eye patch. A broken string had whipped up and pierced his eye. Second anecdote: my first time performing at my high school, I was playing Crazy Train on my new JS10th, just at the top of the solo, and I broke a string. I had a backup guitar, but it was all downhill from there. Anyway, change your strings, call her back, and give it another shot.
TheCandyHater 7
Yeah, that first story made me cringe