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I live on the top of a 4 storey block of apartments.  Down under me are lots of 1 bedders and at the very bottom a cafe.

We have an industial strength fire alarm system and my internal alarm is right on top of my bed.  When it goes off in the middle of the night I $hit myself... as I did at 3:30am the other night.

I jumped out of bed, threw on a t-shirt and shorts, grabbed my keys and phone and hot-footed it out of the building.  One of the other tenants followed a minute after me - wearing a beanie and carrying his tele.

Do I have my priorities wrong in that I put on pants and a shirt or should I have grabbed my guitar(s)?  If you could only grab one guitar in a fire which of yours would you take ?

I have now thought about this a bit.  For sentimental reasons, I think I would be devastated if my Takamine went up in smoke.  Then again for "cudos value" I think the girls in the building were more impressed by the other guy's tele than they would by a 12-string.  What to do ?

Quote from: Migs on April 20, 2010, 06:10:34 PMOne of the other tenants followed a minute after me - wearing a beanie and carrying his tele.

I think the girls in the building were more impressed by the other guy's tele than they would by a 12-string.

I think you've jumped to the wrong conclusion about the Tele. The girls probably didn't even notice it if the guy was wearing only a beanie.  ;)

If you run out the building without dressing, I think it'll be your partscaster that gets noticed.

If I ran out of a building unclothed, everyone would immediately forget about their loss, and laugh about mine.

Quote from: Tony W on April 20, 2010, 06:39:11 PMIf I ran out of a building unclothed, everyone would immediately forget about their loss, and laugh about mine.

In a sense, you'd be doing them a pubic service.

I would think most people would be impressed with one of those 80's pointy, extra wood models...or maybe even the Rick Nielson quintuple-neck.

Sad but true.

Blooby

Quote from: 64Guitars on April 20, 2010, 06:24:27 PMI think you've jumped to the wrong conclusion about the Tele. The girls probably didn't even notice it if the guy was wearing only a beanie.  ;)

We are just heading in to winter here. It was cold.
I could have hidden my junk with my MBR.

Hey Migs, something I've heard but never confirmed, when you flush the toilet, does the water circulate counter-clockwise? I know this doesn't correlate to hiding your junk with the MBR in the winter, or my laughable dilemma year round, but I'm interested to know.

Talk about a question from out of nowhere!  LOL   

I'd grab my br600 and my ESP MH-327... And since the scenario is not having enough time to get dressed... I'd have plenty of room to grab some clothes from the closet... that are on hangers.  :D

Quote from: Tony W on April 27, 2010, 01:02:14 PMHey Migs, something I've heard but never confirmed, when you flush the toilet, does the water circulate counter-clockwise? I know this doesn't correlate to hiding your junk with the MBR in the winter, or my laughable dilemma year round, but I'm interested to know.

Nice threadjacking, Tony.  But this is a question of "priorities" and that is the topic here.

The first time I went to South Africa I went from my the airport to my hotel.  The first thing I did was to drop my suitcase, make a paper boat out of the hotel stationery, fill the bathroom sink, float the boat, and pull the drain plug.

Drain... drain... drain...

The sink emptied before much swirling could start.

My experiment was a failure, so here's your answer:

Quote from: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/149/do-bathtubs-drain-counterclockwise-in-the-northern-hemisphere[w]hen you get down to itty-bitty phenomena such as the water draining out of your bathtub, the Coriolis effect is insignificant, amounting to roughly three ten-millionths of the force of gravity (in Boston, at least, which is where they happened to do the measuring).

The boring truth is that water drains every which way no matter what hemisphere you're in, for reasons which have to do mostly with the shape of the drain, the way you poured in the water in the first place, and so on.

And there we have it, a ridiculous question, something I picked up from Navy guys who swear by it...... answered by our intercontinental explorer.

Navy people swear that the water circles the drains counter-clockwise when you cross the equator. I always thought it intriguing, and when the day comes that I cross (hopefully on a mid-summer snowboarding trip) I fully anticipated seeing the results for myself. Now I have one less thing earth shattering theory to test for myself.

I'd heard that reverse whirlpool theory before too. It always sounded plausible. As plausible as all the rest of the urban myths and old wives tales, lol.

On the original question, my priority would be to save all my paintings and art that can't be replaced. Plus other things like my signed Salvador Dali, Jamie Reid and Billy Childish  prints. And my photo albums and the USA road map on my wall with all my journeys marked. Shit... I'd burn to death trying to get it all out! Losing some guitars would be a heart-rending tragedy, but I could always replace them if I had to. Would probably grab my sweet solid mahogany Tanglewood acoustic though. And as for my epiphone flying V...  I hate that guitar so much, I'd use it to smash my way out of the flaming building, lol.

Quote from: Greeny on April 28, 2010, 02:50:42 AMAnd as for my epiphone flying V...  I hate that guitar so much, I'd use it to smash my way out of the flaming building, lol.

LOL!!!

I don't usually use internet initialisms like "lol" but that comment actually made me laugh out loud!   ;D

I have a wife, Kid and cats to think about in that sort of situation.





I'd Take the Kid with me.... And maybe a Guitar...



:)

Quote from: OsCKilO on April 28, 2010, 10:17:24 AMI have a wife, Kid and cats to think about in that sort of situation.





I'd Take the Kid with me.... And maybe a Guitar...



:)

Great thinking! Wife and kid... That's four extra hands, that's four extra guitars to save! If you start now, you might be able to train the cat so that it can carry at least something to make itself useful.   

:P

Tharek, if she finds out your life won't be worth living ;)

Oh dear OsCKILO there would be near terminal silence in my house if I wrote that, bloody funny though, and I would still have to take the 72 Stat.  Still laughing Willie