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04-15-2013, 12:03 PM | #1 |
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Lucky. Here be envy.
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04-15-2013, 03:09 PM | #2 |
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Close but no cigarette! You may skip the sexy intro and forward to 1:14 to hear the lyric as done by Sublime:
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04-15-2013, 04:04 PM | #3 |
Larger than life and twice as ugly.
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Every time you think you're out, they pull you back in...
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We must all go through a rite of passage. It must be physical, it must be painful, and it must leave a mark. I have no knowledge of the events which you are describing, and if I did have knowledge of them, I would be unable to discuss them with you now or at any future period. Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years |
04-16-2013, 08:36 AM | #4 |
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Control? Ha ha ha... all I had to do to get "control" was to leave a low paying job I didn't like?
That's not control. It would have been control if I'd been able to negotiate to keep the job and do it on my terms, but leaving it is no level of control except over my own life. Which is nice, but it only means I figure I have the capability to get another low-paying job. |
04-16-2013, 12:42 PM | #5 |
a beautiful fool
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Music store dude. I mean it!
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04-16-2013, 01:16 PM | #6 |
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Not an option mon frere. Here's the deal: independent music stores have all but disappeared, killed by the Internet. Guitar Center and Sam Ash survive by doing so much volume that they can compete, but in order to do so, their droids are paid fifty cents more than McDonald's closers. I'm shooting for more like $14/hour.
Teaching bass is an option, and I would be great at that, being the humble educator I would be. But that's more of a part-time thing. I could have like 4 part-time jobs... but I'm shooting for one full-time and one part-time. |
04-16-2013, 01:52 PM | #7 |
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George's in Spring City? Maybe you can work there AND give lessons. I went to the music store I bought my first guitar from for my initial instruction.
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04-16-2013, 01:55 PM | #8 |
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Hmm. Hmm. That could work
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04-22-2013, 04:14 PM | #9 |
still says videotape
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Sounds like a workable hybrid. I wonder if a music shop with an internet presence wouldn't be viable built along the lines of the pawn shop?
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04-16-2013, 06:37 PM | #10 |
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Put your best hat on and go talk to them.
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04-17-2013, 12:41 AM | #11 |
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The place I go to here in my town is a local place, and my son took lessons through a guy that pretty much "leases space" there.
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04-17-2013, 01:55 AM | #12 |
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Has anybody done "Down here at the prawn shop" ...?
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04-17-2013, 08:26 AM | #13 |
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Yeah, Sundae.
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04-27-2013, 10:04 AM | #14 |
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Dude comes in and is immediately very demanding. He wants to get a grinder, and he's antsy about it, barking at both Sammy and Alan. There are two grinders in the front window.
Dude: I want the DeWalt and I want to haggle on it. Alan: How much are you looking to spend? Dude: 50 dollars. And no more than that. Alan (quietly, to Sammy who is fetching it): What's the price on it? Sammy: 49 dollars. Alan (to dude): Yeah, we'll take 50 for it. Dude: Done deal. |
04-27-2013, 10:18 AM | #15 |
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that's not customer service. dude said he wanted to haggle. you should have started him at $75 and let him work it down. He'd have been better satisfied.
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