Would you rather...

[Yellow Bang66]

I'm curious.

Reminds me of... when they asked,Mel Brooks the difference between comedy & tragedy? he said," Comedy, is when You get hit in the head with an Anvil. Tragedy is when I get a paper cut!" I love that!
I learned how to fix dings in guitars, I thought it would be a valuable asset, while collecting used basses on ebay. so a ding i can handle a ding.

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

I'm curious.

Toe for real. I've broken them all a couple times. They heal. Inanimate objects don't heal.

 

[laristotle]

No poll is complete without the "Smack my idiot neighbor across the face with a rotting fish" option.

 

[HardNHeavy]

an inanimate object vs personal injury and pain?........Dings are just more "mojo"

 

[red_rhino]

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LOL! I could watch that all day!

 

[TOOL460002]

Breaking a toe screws up walking for like a month. I think I'd get over (another) ding or two.

 

[jnuts1]

i have so many dings in my ken smith. they are soft but beautiful

 

[5StringBlues]

Would you give up part of your spleen for a:

1961 stacked knob Jazz?

or what's behind door number one?

 

[br1qbat]

My most prized bass [see avatar] already has 50 years of dings. What's one more?!

 

[bdplaid]

I've had foot trouble and associated surgeries for the last 20 years. I should post pics. In lieu of that, I'll say getting a ding to even a $20K bass is better.

 

[5andFretless]

In 2014 I kicked the seawall coming out of the swim portion of Ironman Chattanooga. I drove the distal big toe bone back and through the top of the first joint creating an open commutated fracture. I sat down and pulling the toe back into place and ran barefoot to transition.

I proceeded to bike 116 miles and run 26.2 miles. I then taped up the toe, took some motrin, and spent the next day at Six Flags. I drove home, got an xray, had my toe set correctly and went to work. I didn't miss a day of work.

Pain is in your mind. Dings aren't

 

[Rojd]

I had surgery on my right foot a few years ago, resulting in a nice scar. In the next year or so, I'll be having surgery on my left foot, also ending with a nice companion scar. I can deal with the toe.

 

[5StringBlues]

My brother broke his toe and didn't go to the doctor. Infection set in and they had to remove it.


Now he can only count to 19.

YMMV

 

[dbsfgyd1]

I'm curious.

If we are talking fractures other than compound fractures, and not ligament, tendon and or nerve damage, I’ll take the broken toe. Over the years I’ve had a number of broken fingers, toes, and my hip and arm one in a car accident. The toes were broken kicking furniture after a gig trying to sneak in without lights trying not to wake up my wife. I later found out she really wanted to know when I came and didn’t want to sleep through it, so she would move the furniture around while I was out gigging. I guess me bellowing out at 2:30am did the trick for her.

The broken fingers came mostly sports, namely basketball.

 

[PillO]

My brother broke his toe and didn't go to the doctor. Infection set in and they had to remove it.


Now he can only count to 19.

YMMV

Couldn't he just take off his pants?

 

[PWRL]

I've had both, and I'll take the ding on the bass.

 

[OddSenses]

Ill take the Ding. I don't baby my instruments and have never cared about keeping them looking brand new.

 

[Bajo Clarkko]

Somewhere out there, a podiatrist or an orthopedic surgeon has paid good money for a Fender Custom Shop Bass, with dings already in it.

Just sayin’.

 

[casualmadness]

Ding...I've never in my 30+years of playing bass and a few years before that of playing drums understood why people get so weird about a scratch or a ding or whatnot on their instrument.

What's really eye rollingly hilarious to me is people stress so much about getting a small scratch on their favorite bass, yet pay thousands for those ridiculous relic jobs. Like, "I'm gonna keep this amazing bass in it's case forever because I don't want to get a scratch on it but I'm also going to pay $5000 for a Fender custom shop relic job."

I mean, roll how you roll (you do you) but really???

 

[Peteyboy]

I've lived worst case scenario: Bass vs Toe, as I have dropped my bass on my foot. I didn't have time to consider personal preferences as I simultaneously relic'd both bass and bassist.