Sometime in July, Jessica used her saved-up allowance to buy her first electric guitar.
I had done some research online and the top contenders were the Squier 22.75" scale length mini strat vs a 19" Greg Bennett mini avion Les Paul clone. I wondered whether the strat might be too big for her, so I took her down the street to Gelb Music to check one out. We parked around the corner and stopped by their used gear shop on the way to the main store.
Jessica couldn't have been a cuter sight as we walked in, ragged green blankie clutched tightly.
Hanging on the wall was a used black mini strat, the precise thing we had come to see. I pulled it down and it seemed to be in good shape. The price was right too. At $59 it was 40% off the street price for a new one.
We plugged it into an amp, and I handed it off to Jessica to see what she thought. The shopkeeper watched approvingly as she shyly plunked away at her high E string only arrangement of Iron Man. From across the store another shopper gave me a congragulator "high five" look.
I'm not sure whether it was me or Jessica who was more proud as we walked out of the store with her new purchase.
