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Left-handed guitar
We finally were notified that the guitar ordered last Saturday had come in today. The Scientist took Game Fanatic to pick it up this afternoon. About an hour later I got a call from Game Fanatic, an extremely rare occurrence. He wasn’t terribly coherent and kept saying something about a left-handed guitar. The Scientist got on the phone and said the one that had come in turned out to be a left-handed guitar. They had been given the option of ordering again or of taking the floor model with a whopping $20 off. We decided it was time to request a refund and said goodbye.
About an hour and a half later, they walked in, Game Fanatic carrying a guitar case. It turns out when the Scientist requested a refund, the sales assistant spoke to the manager, who took the guy upstairs and showed him a stack of guitars. The sales assistant apologised and so Game Fanatic did get his guitar after all.
I’m glad it all worked out but we won’t be going back to this shop again.
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Quiet day
Today was rather quiet compared to yesterday. The storms have moved out and we cleaned up some of the mess from the broken fence. We also cleared out some mess from what originally was the no-dig garden (that never got going). The Scientist cleared out a bunch of rubbish in the area so it looks less ugly than it did. Without the cloud and rain, it’s now been quite chilly and will drop to nearly freezing tonight. Brrrr..
Earlier in the afternoon, we went to a music shop to take a look at guitars. Game Fanatic has wanted to try playing for a while. He really wants to learn to play bass but decided he would learn the acoustic guitar first. With the help of the Scientist’s younger brother who met us at the shop, we found one that was suitable with a reasonable price so we decided to go ahead and get it. The salesman tried to give us the floor model because they were out of new ones but we declined and had him order another one in.