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Originally Posted by Katsunami
- An iDeal payment not going through to a webshop, with both the store and bank telling me... "Uh... I don't know..."
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- People on a piano-forum that start out with.... "I get a disability stipend / am on a low fixed pension / on welfare" (or whatever) "and I'm looking to pick up piano playing again. I'm looking for <piano desires>"
*describes a f*** concert grand in the league of a Bösendorfer or Steinway*
You trolling?
And I'm being told I'm not nice when I tell those people bluntly that they'd be better of looking at a €650 Kawai ES110 / Roland FP-30 or a €1500-1700 Kawai ES8 / Roland FP-90. You can't swing anything more than a €500-2000 instrument if you're not working at least a mid-level job (or saved money while working in the past). Even then, you probably can't swing a €100.000 piano to practice "Happy Birthday." |
Some guitar people are the same way. They seem to live in their own little world where, if you can't drop at least mid 4-figures on your first guitar, there is simply no point in trying to learn.
As for people, you reminded me of another peeve I encounter almost every time I talk to a store clerk:
"Excuse me, do you have xxx in stock?"
"I don't think so."
"You don't
think so? You don't
THINK SO?
I could not possibly care less what you THINK! I'm not polling for your opinion. You freaking WORK HERE! I am a customer wanting to buy something! Go FIND OUT and LET ME KNOW FOR SURE if you have it or not! It's pretty much your FREAKING JOB!
I don't actually phrase that last part like that out loud, but one day, if I'm ever a mystery shopper or on Undercover Boss, I surely will.