I had to laugh today. I went in to a local music shop this afternoon, which, for the purpose of this story, we will call Farce-City Music. I'm looking to learn some mandolin, and they appear to sell them dirt cheap, so I went in and asked about one in their window display. Admittedly, I had misread the price tag, which I read as '£99.00'. Turned out it said '499.00', but when the grumpy old man assisting me asked "Have you even got that kind of money?", I laughed it off.
He then says: "No point in getting something out the window if yer not gonna buy it." and hands me a £75 'bestseller' which he promptly takes back off me, without me even strumming a chord. Then tells me how they used to be made in Korea, but are now made in China. He tells me he knows a lot about wood as they specialise in pianos, and that they also supply the shop up the road with their banjos, and how if I ever want to be an instrument dealer, I need to know a lot about wood. Then he says, "this needs tuned", tunes up the mandolin, and hangs it back up again (behind the counter where I can't get to it). Then he walks away from me. All of this happened without me saying anything. Hilariously terrible!
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