Ok so..........
I recently acquired a rather nice TC Flashback X4.
its quite a lot of money to me for a pedal (despite being s/h and a great price)
the arrangement I struck with Mrs Professorben, was that I could buy the pedal outright, then pay the money back from the sale of my spare pedals, in addition, I would get a few niggling jobs done ( kitchen cabinets, tax return, insurance stuff etc etc)
I got the pedal, stuck it on the board Sat night, tested it, plumbed it all in (sounds epic)
Spent all day Sunday hanging kitchen cabinets, which look rather spiffing if I do say so myself.
Spent last night cracking on with Tax return after putting little boy to bed.
Thought to myself, ah I fancy seeing what the tone print editor is like.
Pull out my pedalboard, fire up the laptop and spend a moment looking at the TC Flashback X4 shaped hole on my board........
so she's opened up my board, extracted the said pedal and hidden it somewhere around the house, in lieu of the agreed jobs being completed.
Fair? Unfair?
thoughts?
" Why does it smell of bum?" Mrs Professorben.
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Some chancer tried to nick my Fuzz Factory off my pedalboard at a gig once, while I was back at the amp setting it up. He must have got quite a surprise when instead of velcro coming undone, he found himself lifting the entire 40lb+ pedalboard - the crash of it falling back down onto the stage made me spin round, to see him with his hand still above the pedal, looking very guilty and mumbling something about "I just wanted to see what it was"… yeah right.
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She maintains that was the agreement, I'm not sure, I thought it was as long as I get stuff ticked off list I was ok to use it.
If she is serious then you have a second mum, not a wife.
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This. I like her style, to be honest
I think it's more a dammning indication of my organisation levels.
it does pose uncomfortable questions about some of the role playing we indulge in.
I sorely underestimated her on this one, I figured I would at least partly enjoy the manly nature of some honest DIY, and thus completed that first, saving the less enjoyable tasks for later, with the 'carrot' of playing my new delay pedal afterwards.
i tried broaching the subject at bedtime last night, but she skilfully cancelled out my attempt at a reproach, by taking her bra off and wandering around the bedroom 'looking' for her nightdress.
However as said prior, if she is serious then it's a bit weird.
If it's good fun, get your own back at christmas. Wrap a lot of empty boxes but hide the gifts until things get done!
If the list of shit jobs you have to do is fixed and finite, I guess she has a point- not so much if she can keep adding jobs to it until she feels like letting you have your pedal. I would have hashed out the fine detail of the deal in the first place so as not to have surprises like this. Personally, I think it's childish and manipulative and I wouldn't want to be with someone who thought that sort of behaviour was OK.
On the other hand, if your partner asks you to do a job and you say you will, you should really do it. If you don't, you put them in an a difficult position- do they nag? sulk? steal your pedals?
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.