Going along with my previous guitar rant, I've encountered another similar guitar hate. Air guitar.
Now I know your thinking that you never encounter the dreaded air guitar unless you're being crazy with your friends, and if you do this with your friends you might want to rethink your priorities, or hang out with 40 year old dudes who believe Metallica is the best, also not advised and rethink this immediately. But the air guitar strikes more frequently then you'd think and tonight for example I've seen it three times!
Where? In the campus dining hall during my work shift.
Now I know that long work hours can drive you to insanity and that you can act in ways you'd never think you'd act but I think the air guitar is a bit drastic. Back to my air guitar attack, I was just minding my own business in the dish room putting clean dishes in their rightful places and enduring the Metallica blasting through a workers ipod and assaulting my ears. One of the guys who work in the kitchen came into the dish room and grabbed a tray for whatever reason he needed it and then held it like a guitar and started wailing away to a rock song that I don't know. Like any nice polite person I laughed and nodded at his little antic but oh no this encounter was not over yet. He kept up his guitar solo all the while singing (More like wailing random tones) along while I kept trying to do my job and stack dishes. After another minute or so of me laughing and nodding at him he stopped and went back to his work thinking he performed a good joke and I was thankful that I was saved from the vicious air guitar.
I was wrong in my assumption that I would not see the air guitar for what I hoped was forever. Again this worker thought it'd be a good idea to waltz in and jam away on his air guitar, he even came back for another round closer to the end of my shift. I never thought I'd even have to deal with an air guitar player in my life let alone work with one. I'm all for jokes and having a good time but the air guitar is awkward....probably because you don't hold anything and just make crazy sounds out of your mouth all the while assaulting someones ear drums.
If you feel the need to play the air guitar along with some songs then do it by yourself but air guitar is not a performance activity and certainly you shouldn't ever admit to playing air guitar. And to all you air guitar players out there, remember this: Air guitar is not appropriate for the work place, hell it's not appropriate at all you look like a mental patient so just stop it already cause you are no rock star and not a musician at all!
I'm thinking he's trying to impress you! Maybe he wants air groupies (lol).
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