- Sep 2, 2006
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So I've been trying to get a few cardboard guitar boxes to flog my guitars and you'd figured guitar stores would be tripping over themselves to get rid of them, dead wrong.
First shop I went into was GuitarGuitar, I ask the guy at the counter if he has any spare cardboard guitar boxes cos I'm flogging a few guitars to buy a Fender at some point. He looks at me like I've just asked for a pound of blow, there are 300+ guitars on the walls. He says no and directs me next door to their online retail store.
I walk in, ask the guy there the same question, he doesnt look at me like I've asked him for a pound of blow and actually goes to check the back, eventually returning to say "no there arent any boxes". I'm thinking; "this place must do hundreds of transactions each day and there are no fucking boxes?"
I figure; "sod it" and leave, the nearest guitar shop is 2 miles away, I walk to that. As I walk in and the assistant is having an argument with an engineer over the quality of the thread on a microphone clip, loud words are shouted along the lines of "This is not how you treat a customer, I'm telling Jimmy all about this", the word Jimmy is said quite a lot and it appears they're fighting over £2; it's true what they say, Scottish people are fucking tight. The man exits the shop with his visibly disabled friend as I stand in the background waiting for the right moment to ask again (I do know how to pick 'em). From down the street the disabled bloke shouts out that the guy at the store is an arsehole, the store guy, having already refunded the guy and thinking he was dealing with the customer not the disabled gentleman runs out the shop and shouts out that the guy is a fucking tight customer, to which the guy returns and starts giving him grief over the fact that discrimination against disabled patrons is against the law.
At this point I'm wondering whether this will ever fucking end, just as it draws to a close, so I walk up to the counter and ask some other guy if they can give me a few cardboard guitar boxes, he looks at me like I've asked him for a pound of blow and an 8th of Purple Haze:
"Sorry, we can't give them to customers, health and safety laws say we have to dump them instead"
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.
First shop I went into was GuitarGuitar, I ask the guy at the counter if he has any spare cardboard guitar boxes cos I'm flogging a few guitars to buy a Fender at some point. He looks at me like I've just asked for a pound of blow, there are 300+ guitars on the walls. He says no and directs me next door to their online retail store.
I walk in, ask the guy there the same question, he doesnt look at me like I've asked him for a pound of blow and actually goes to check the back, eventually returning to say "no there arent any boxes". I'm thinking; "this place must do hundreds of transactions each day and there are no fucking boxes?"
I figure; "sod it" and leave, the nearest guitar shop is 2 miles away, I walk to that. As I walk in and the assistant is having an argument with an engineer over the quality of the thread on a microphone clip, loud words are shouted along the lines of "This is not how you treat a customer, I'm telling Jimmy all about this", the word Jimmy is said quite a lot and it appears they're fighting over £2; it's true what they say, Scottish people are fucking tight. The man exits the shop with his visibly disabled friend as I stand in the background waiting for the right moment to ask again (I do know how to pick 'em). From down the street the disabled bloke shouts out that the guy at the store is an arsehole, the store guy, having already refunded the guy and thinking he was dealing with the customer not the disabled gentleman runs out the shop and shouts out that the guy is a fucking tight customer, to which the guy returns and starts giving him grief over the fact that discrimination against disabled patrons is against the law.
At this point I'm wondering whether this will ever fucking end, just as it draws to a close, so I walk up to the counter and ask some other guy if they can give me a few cardboard guitar boxes, he looks at me like I've asked him for a pound of blow and an 8th of Purple Haze:
"Sorry, we can't give them to customers, health and safety laws say we have to dump them instead"
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.
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