Not happy, not happy at all

[Jamie M]

I came home yesterday from walking my dog to find my wife at home with her friend and kids. She had taken my ASS off the wall to let them mess around with it, i assume to keep them, quiet.

Imagine my horror as i walked in to see a couple of 5 years olds banging away on it with sticky fingers.
I had to restring and clean it as there were sticky prints everywhere, i think i need to invest in a safe with fingerprint recognition.

I politely explained that this is a very expensive instrument and the response i got was..."it doesn't look anything special"

I held my tongue and took the dog out for another walk, at least he was happy.

 

[Adrian-XI]

Divorce can be difficult but I'm sure you'll pull through.

 

[mystixboi1]

I remember years ago web I was still living at home. We had the house on the market and I came home one day and noticed my Axis was sitting awkwardly in the stand. I realized that someone had knocked it off an tool a huge chunk out of the back finish. It was completely out of tune and needed a set up. That bad!!!

 

[fbecir]

Next time : kids = food for Blade

You'll see, your wife will understand better

 

[DrKev]

Oooh Jamie, mate, you're lucky it was just fingerprints and not crayon, pencils, or pretty pictures of designs made with cutlery. Seriously, my stomach is turning at the thought.

 

[jzeijen]

Kids and guitars... That's why my 3 year old has his own guitar! Until my guitars remain untouched (I always have 2 of them in my living room).
Don't trust other kids near them though..

 

[BrickGlass]

Whoa now! Freak out mode would ensue if that happened to me. Nobody touches my balls, nobody!!!

 

[threeminutesboy]

I feel for you, really.

 

[Purple ASS]

New Wife required

 

[davetcan]

Death in the family?

 

[threeminutesboy]

Death in the family?

you mean deaf for letting a 5 years old kid to play with such a guitar

 

[FantasyMetal]

My wife cringed when I read your post to her (as did I). This is terrible and I'm glad no serious damage was done. My cousins have banged my dad's guitars ($3000+ Les Paul Customs) bad enough to take chunks out of them before and that is not a fun situation for anyone.

 

[KevTN]

I feel your pain....my oldest thought she was doing me a favor and clean my strings with Chapstick. It was a double neck..what a pain to clean and restring.

Btw....there are reason they eat their own in the wild! Lol

 

[Dr.Strangenote]

Oh man, horror story to come home and find that!! ouch!! It sounds like you and the family need to have a sit down and discuss how import your instruments are to you and that they aren't toys (for everyone else). I'm sure she meant well, by the statement that it didn't look like anything special, as you must have some treasures, but she didn't realize that it the music man guitars are hands-off. Communication is the key and I'm sure now she understands what these mean to you.

 

[mikeller]

At this stage I never have to worry about it, but do keep my guitars in cases. As far as that goes, I keep some of my most valued guitars with the cases all locked together with vinyl covered bike chain to satisfy my concern about theft.

 

[DrKev]

Easy on the "women" comments guys. I've deleted some posts. I know it's all meant in fun, light hearted, and what not but it's not acceptable. If ever you'd think twice about posting a comment because your girlfriend/wife/daughter/sister/mom might be reading, just don't post it at all. OK?

This is NOT a men only forum by design, and we definitely don't want it to stay that way. And it's still a corporate forum too.

Thanks!

No apologies necessary, just get on with your regular programming.

http://forums.ernieball.com/music-man-guitars/45577-required-reading-forum-decorum.html

 

[Jamie M]

Hey guys

Thanks for all the comments, some funny and some just good advice. All is good now as i have explained how special the guitar is to me and i am sure this will not happen again but if it does i will take Fbecirs advice and feed any small person with sticky fingers to my dog!!!

Thanks again

 

[streck]

I understand that someone is rigorous to keep guitars clean and tuned. But broken neck will be a bigger problem.

I let my both sons (4 and 1,5 years) that they can touch and strum the guitar while it is in stand. This is the best way to build relationship to a guitar. To a musical instrument. And they both know that this is all that they are allowed to do.
I'm not afraid about fingerprints. Cause those are from my sons, my blood.
I'm using guitar as a musical instrument not as a work of art. Even though MM guitars are beautiful and No.1 guitars.

Anyway this is may point of view. And in my family it works.

Judge me.

 

[agt]

Explain to your wife that you deserve an NGD to help you get through this traumatic event.

 

[Roubster]

I like agt's advice hehe. Yea I think I would freak out too if I saw something like that. Even if I saw a stranger holding my guitar without my consent I would not like that very much. My guitars are very personal to me as I am emotionally attached to them because they enable me to express all my emotions whatever they may be. I dont baby them and hide them in the closet as some people do...I do play the hell out of them but definitely take good care of my instruments. I think this is also why I just want to have dogs and no kids...less work hehe.