Is my friend a bad person?

[Chad Michael]

A friend that I have worked with for 16 years, always has an anecdote about he and his wife. Most of the stories are humorous and remind us about couples who have been together (too) long...

One of his standard sayings (after yet another short story)

"They make you lie, Chad. They make you lie" - or -

"They make you hide stuff"

<c:

 

[Bajo Clarkko]

With the title of the thread being, "Is my friend a bad person?", and "Bob" heading out of the house with an empty bass case, I was thinking that this post was going to land up being an episode of "Forensic Files".

Meh, if "Bob" buys a bass on sly, who am I to judge?
So long as the case doesn't fluoresce when exposed to Luminol, again, who am I to judge?
Of course, if "Bob" lands up in the bass case.... who am I to judge?

 

[sawzalot]

This is much better than having a bass-sized shipping box show up at the house while she's home and you're out. Not that I know anything about that.

 

[Fender4Me]

Define "bad".......
Women expect men to have some secrets. Its part of what makes a man a man. A good woman recognises that.

 

[jerry]

There are way worse things "Bob" can hide from his wife, just sayin'.

 

[MakoMan]

A friend that I have worked with for 16 years, always has an anecdote about he and his wife. Most of the stories are humorous and remind us about couples who have been together (too) long...

One of his standard sayings (after yet another short story)

"They make you lie, Chad. They make you lie" - or -

"They make you hide stuff"

<c:

I like you and your friend

 

[tpaul]

So you're saying I shouldn't have told her I can do my own setups and repairs?

poopie.

 

[MakoMan]

This is much better than having a bass-sized shipping box show up at the house while she's home and you're out. Not that I know anything about that.

Went through that one two weeks ago. And the week before that I pulled the 'honey on our way home I just have to stop at someone's house and pick up a bass I'm buying.'

 

[GretschWretch]

In his defense, Bob is 61 and was on the verge of retirement anyway. Money is not really an issue and the bass was a very inexpensive Squier Mini P. He just for some reason felt a bit guilty and didn't want to explain why he was buying another bass. He also didn't want to not buy the bass.

A mini-P? You went to all this deviousness for a rug beater?

 

[Nuage420]

Oh what tangled webs we weave, when first we learn to deceive.

Bob should come clean before he's caught and wifey starts to question everything. Something small and meaningless to us becomes a conspiracy theory to rival who shot JFK and hid him in area 51.
If she's mad about you spending your play money then that's on her.

 

[5StringBlues]

Do you have a secret you will take to the grave?

 

[john_g]

Bobs not your uncle?? With the losing of the job and other new bass, it makes it complicated for me. Usually new basses around my house just "show up". And if questioned, I say..."oh ive had that for a while now...have you lost weight?"

 

[dbsfgyd1]

In his defense, Bob is 61 and was on the verge of retirement anyway. Money is not really an issue and the bass was a very inexpensive Squier Mini P. He just for some reason felt a bit guilty and didn't want to explain why he was buying another bass. He also didn't want to not buy the bass.

With that, Bob isn't bad, he's either a idiot, or he needs some serious work on his relationship with his wife. To set himself up for failure over something that would hardly cause either of them to miss a meal in the next 12 lifetimes, is not a descriptor of a Mensa candidate.

 

[mongo2]

Bob...just....

 

[jdh3000]

Buy your wife something really nice and be up front about it next time... Bob...

 

[HG1180]

i too vote for pics, gotta see how hot...

 

[juancaminos]

There was a time when I made such good money that buying things like basses wasn't a problem. I was the single source of income so my wife didn't really care too much what I bought. Being the miser I am I only had three basses at the time bought over a course of 20 or more years. Most of what I spent money on was band support equipment. My wife never questioned any of it, she didn't really care and life was good.

However I happened to be in GC and saw a MM S.U.B that I took a liking to and since I never had an active bass I bought it. I played it at every gig for a month or so until my best friend and singer asked my wife, over the microphone how she liked my new bass. She didn't get mad but it was a bit embarrassing and I felt like a schmuck. So I almost never did that again...

 

[BadSanta1281]

Makes me wonder how many other TB members are "Bob", too...

 

[Slater]

he took an empty bass case, kissed her goodbye, loaded the case into his car's trunk and headed to the store.

Bob had cash on him that he had taken from a hidden spot in his garage where he puts money from gigs and stuff he sells

Bob says he really didn't intend to deceive anyone... it just happened

Bob has issues.

 

[davec]

I sell music gear for a living, blaming the wife is commonplace. I've had to have the conversation with grown adults, come up with a number that you and your spouse agree on it can be $50 bucks or $50,000, whatever amount it is, both spouses have the liberty to spend it. Period.