What happened to decency?

[GrumpyGregry]

It depends on (1) whether you want to resell it in the future and get as much money for it as possible, and (2) whether you care about people being amazed that you are playing a scratched-up bass.

I see.

I never sell my gigging basses not even in PX for new ones. They go and live in the loft when they retire, and I bring them down once in a while and get all nostalgic. They are, after all, fetish objects. I'm content that people are amazed that a shaved ape like me can play bass at all, scratched up or no.

I wonder whether folk behave spectacularly indecently towards musicians in general, or electric bass players in particular, given the scenario I've described has happened dozens of times and no one has ever left a note. With one exception; when I was playing an upright acoustic which got scratched.

 

[Rapples]

If I play a gig in a crowded pub/club and leave my bass* on a stand between sets and it gets accidentally knocked over and the finish dinked but it is in otherwise perfectly playable condition should I expect to find a note of apology and an offer of repair under the strings?

*my fetish object of choice.

Don't fret, it's water under the bridge.

 

[Tim Hall]

I see.

I never sell my gigging basses not even in PX for new ones. They go and live in the loft when they retire, and I bring them down once in a while and get all nostalgic. They are, after all, fetish objects. I'm content that people are amazed that a shaved ape like me can play bass at all, scratched up or no.

I wonder whether folk behave spectacularly indecently towards musicians in general, or electric bass players in particular, given the scenario I've described has happened dozens of times and no one has ever left a note. With one exception; when I was playing an upright acoustic which got scratched.

Never mind all that. Where are you playing next? Can we come and watch?

 

[Archie_tect]

As a different example, how about if you had a sailing dinghy that got scored/scratched like the car in the OP? It doesn't stop the dinghy functioning as a boat. Would it cause so much angst?

I'm not sure myself, I'm just curious about why it's so important for some people's cars to continue to have the pristine appearance of never having been used, whatever happens. Maybe the drivers feel it's bad for their image in some way?

It's all to do with the rip-off culture of having to sell them... something I have never been good at... but it's only money.

 

[Archie_tect]

Depends how good your maintenance skill are TMN.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I've never sold a car to anyone, except our local breakers yard. Sold a few mo'bikes and bicycles though. Bangernomics probably informs my thinking on car ownership. They ain't assets, they are liabilities. one's liabilities are best reduced by making the minimum investment in the 'asset' imo.

 

[Archie_tect]

Actually they're pretty good, but that still doesn't affect whether I would have to sell a car or not.

Yes.

 

[donnydave]

I've got a picture in my head of the supermarket car park that half the people in this thread often visit. Due to their enlightened views on the facade of material worth, there's car doors banging against each other, flapping in the breeze. Trolleys rolling listlessly along bumping into anything that gets in their way. Uncontrolled children snapping off windscreen wipers. A game of cricket by the disabled spaces perhaps, the crack of willow on plastic bumpers and a polite ripple of applause as the ball finds the boundary and dents another defenceless vehicle.

I cant think of a witty and insightful way to finish this post, I'll just reverse out of here and go find somewhere else to park

 

[theclaud]

I've got a picture in my head of the supermarket car park that half the people in this thread often visit.

The trick is not to visit supermarket car parks.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Would it cause so much angst?

Or if you had a job you didn't like, would you get stressed about it or choose not to by reframing your view of the job?

 

[donnydave]

The trick is not to visit supermarket car parks.

Ah its just supermarkets? My car is safe elsewhere? If so then I completely agree with everything. You'd be daft to park a nice car in a supermarket carpark, I get my weekly shop delivered so I dont have to waste 2 hours in a cathedral of retail misery

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I've got a picture in my head of the supermarket car park that half the people in this thread often visit. A game of cricket by the disabled spaces perhaps, the crack of willow on plastic bumpers and a polite ripple of applause as the ball finds the boundary and dents another defenceless vehicle.

Can't play cricket in the disabled spaces at our Sainsburys. Full of wankpanzers driven by the entirely able bodied who are too lazy to walk from the ordinary spaces when they nip in to get their fags and papers.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

The trick is not to visit supermarket car parks.

I often cut through one, on a bike, as a short cut. And the top deck of the Waitrose one gives a fine view of the higgledy-piggledy roof line of Horsham which always makes me think of this

 

[Speicher]

I've got a picture in my head of the supermarket car park that half the people in this thread often visit. Due to their enlightened views on the facade of material worth, there's car doors banging against each other, flapping in the breeze. Trolleys rolling listlessly along bumping into anything that gets in their way. Uncontrolled children snapping off windscreen wipers.

I cant think of a witty and insightful way to finish this post, I'll just reverse out of here and go find somewhere else to park

You would be able to reverse more easily and using less space in you used the opposite lock.

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

This a quiz:
you went to the shops and then return to your car, you find three unusual things
1) a dent in your cars door
2) a note under the windscreen wiper
3) a leather wallet on the ground.
Which one do you react to first?
Then when you discover that all three are connected:
1) the note refers to the dent
2) the wallet with credit cards and stuff and £350 belongs to the person who left the note
What do you do next, in all decency?

I like to think I'd contact the wallet owner, return their wallet with contents intact and then, if I had decided to repair the dent, ask them to pay for the repair.

If I ever find myself in that particular situation I'll see if reality matches ideology. I admit I'd be tempted to use some of the £350 to pay for the repairs though it would be wrong of me to do so without the owners permission.