I was with my bandmates passing through Santa Barbara CA. headed to
Orange County where we had a gig the next day. While walking around
browsing stores and what not and enjoying the nice day we found
ourselves in this huge store that had a little bit of everything
including a lot of used items. I ran across an odd sized guitar case
that was leaned up against the wall so I opened it to see what it
contained. Turned out to be one of those latin style instruments with
the courses of 3 strings together, can't think of the name at the
moment, but I had never seen one in person and was kinda thrilled and
excited to mess with it.
I was plinkin' away and about that time this kinda dumpy old Hispanic
man came up and tried to take it from me. He couldn't speak English and
though not getting especially angry or too physical he was obviously
trying to get it from me. I'm like "Hey gramps, I saw it first". But he
wouldn't let up. I finally gave him a pantomime of "Dude, back off".
With that he walked away and I look at my buddies like what was that all
about. A few minutes later the guy comes back with a younger man that
could speak English. Turned out the old man was a street musician and
that was his personal guitar. He was friends with the store owner and he
would set it in that particular spot when ever he took a break.
I was so embarrassed. I told the young guy to explain what happened
and that I was very sorry. He was actually pretty cool about it smiled
and shook my hand.
But I got ribbed about that the whole weekend. My bandmates were all "You big bully stealing an old man's guitar".
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