Rock Island Sound

This is a small «mom and pop» music shop on Main Street in Tarrytown that I walked into looking for a «deluxe» guitar pick. The owner greeted me with a smile and showed me a box of picks that were about $ 5.00 each. A typical guitar pick costs about .75 but they can be as much as $ 25.00 so I was prepared to pay the 5 bucks. I then proceeded to check out a few of the picks. I manipulated them in my fingers to gauge their flexibilty and feel. I came upon one pick and it snapped in half in my fingers. I put it down, shrugged, and kept checking out the picks. Then, to my surprise and dismay, the owner said, «you know you are going to have to pay for that.» In my 30 years of playing guitar, a pick has never snapped in half in my fingers. It is quite clear that the pick was defective and all I did was expose a weakness in its contruction. If I had purchased that pick and used it for a few minutes, it would have broke just the same as it did in my fingers. I then proceeded to grab my wallet out of my pocket to pay for the pick, the owner amazingly asked me if I needed anything else, I said no. I paid for the pick and then promptly left the store, never to return again.