United Breaks Guitars

posted July 11, 2009

I heard this story on NPR yesterday. Here’s the video which has gone viral. I consider myself infected.

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  1. I always cry and plead or get angry about my guitar- so they let me put it in the overhead or the first class coat closet. -MM

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