I hate guitar center

For oh so many reasons. If you have never had the "pleasure" of shopping at the largest chain of instrument stores on the west coast then you have missed some sweeeeeet strip malls for one. For two, if you ever do i recommend counting backwards in your head from 60 and see how far you get until something pisses you off. i usually make it to around 30.
whether it be the unhelpful yet pushy sales force trying to upsell you to a kickass BC Rich

when all you wanted were SOME GODDAMN picks and strings (the only thing worth venturing to GC for, and even then i sometimes spend the extra ten-fifteen dollars to buy strings somewhere else). While he strokes his fucking goatee and tells you about his band that he is listening to on the boom box behind the counter (true story, mostly).
i swear that every salesperson's nametag should just say Dick on it.
Also they seem to know less about what they are selling than the folks at Radioshack which is mind boggling, and worse because they do not have the blank stare of a Radioshack employee that does not give one shit about their job, oh no, they will argue with you no matter how wrong they are. Because they, after all, can play the solo from november rain or some garbage on a JCM 2000 when they have some down time at the store.
and the customers.
i have been to my fair share of GC's up and down the coast and even in different states because it is like fast food, and when you are "on the road" you sometimes HAVE to eat taco bell. CONNECTION: both taco bell and GC give me stomach aches. How droll Seth, hahahaha, ohhhhh. where was i?
Ahhh yes the customers. Be it the pimply faced teen playing the first few bars of smoke on the water OVER AND OVER. The old guy who is testing out a brand new crystal clear Gallien Kreuger by playing Rush(almost everytime). Or the bro-dog with the backward baseball cap playing a "shredding" solo while his girlfriend, who has a ponytail and sometimes a baseball cap, stands there looking bored.
From the bad music, to the cheap equipment, to the untold pounds of bad facial hair, Guitar Center is a crappy place that should be stayed away from as much as possible.
Thanks Steve for getting me started on this one!