Feeling So Much Better I Could Cakewalk Into Town
As I’m sure is the same with many of my working class friends, we budget our expenses based upon a paycheck that comes every two weeks. The financial month is 28 days. The actual month is 31 days. Consequently, every so often, we get a “three paycheck month”… this is one of those for me.
As of today, all my stringed instrument valuables are out of hock! Feels nice to have a Hell full of guitars and ukes again. Whilst I was waiting for my guitar to get out of the back, I spied a uke hanging on the wall. It was in absolutely NEW condition. Lanikai is respectable brand I had heard of. It came with a case!
“I’ll give you fifty bucks for it!”
That didn’t work. I ended up getting it for $65. No tax.
I love it. It’s a beautiful uke. The case alone is worth $65.
Kismet! (or is that serendipity?) As I write this, I am watching “Hardcore Pawn”, a reality Television show on TruTV. You did well to come that close to your offer, and better yet buy a $100 instrument and a hard shell case from a pawn shop that did not separate the instrument and case and include a cheap gig bag instead as they offered an upgrade to the hardshell case (bad business acumen on their part!). They did not know what they had. It’s a beautiful instrument. Nothing like the resonance of Nato wood.
I looked it up! This uke retails for $165 new!
Wow… I have never had such good fortune in a pawn shop.. Congratulations!
Oh well I’m off to fullfill my obligations in order to be granted one of those paychecks, just so I can mail it back to my owners.