Yessssssssssssssssssssssss!!! My lucky day.

**Santiago** · Nov-06-2011, 4:00pm

As we've now restored our basement following a recent pipe burst, my two sons and I just had to carry the old couch back down from the attic. While doing so, the cheap cloth on the bottom of the couch ripped open a little on the railing. At first I was angry, but I thought, okay, it could be worse. Then we put a hole in the stairway wall, but it's the part of the house we don't use in the Winter, and we put a hole in it on the way up too, so it's not like I have MORE sheetrocking to do. So finally we're done and I'm putting the cat litter box back on the landing -- when I saw it. Two long-lost Red Bear picks sitting on the carpet!

**Mandolin Mick** · Nov-06-2011, 4:14pm

I know the feeling ... a couple of months ago we had the carpet cleaned and when they were cleaning under the loveseat I found 3 Dawg picks!!!

**Josh Kaplan** · Nov-06-2011, 4:16pm

Let's see. Burst pipe--check. Carry the couch down the stairs--check. Ripped couch--check. Two holes in the stairway wall--check. Two Red Bear picks--oh, yeah. Sounds like you had your orange juice this morning!

**barrangatan** · Nov-06-2011, 4:38pm

Thats awesome. Congrats on the long-overdue pick-owner reunion. One of the mandola player in our mandolin orchestra had a similar experience recently, when he turned his entire house upside down to look for a Blue Chip pick that he had misplaced but to no avail. Then, during one of our rehearsal, something fell out from underneath the tail piece on his German flat top mandola that was hidden from view all that time. Guess what it was? We all had a good laugh about that.

**Steve Ostrander** · Nov-07-2011, 8:08am

Burst pipe--$500.00 Holes in the wall--$300.00 Two Red Bear picks--priceless!!

**strings777** · Nov-07-2011, 8:20am

I guess that old adage still rings true...all's well that ends well...

**Santiago** · Nov-07-2011, 1:27pm

Originally Posted by Steve Ostrander

Burst pipe--$500.00 Holes in the wall--$300.00 Two Red Bear picks--priceless!!

LMAO... I was talking to a friend about it, and I had to explain that it this was vindication after having spent $20 on a darned pick TWICE and then losing it TWICE!

**pickinpete** · Nov-08-2011, 10:42am

Your a real "glass is half full" kinda guy arent ya?

**Willie** · Nov-08-2011, 7:53pm

You were luckier than me, I was playing a show on a stage and dropped my favorite pick, it fell right between the boards and I could see it about 6 inches down through the boards but nothing to reach it so I thought about pulling up the boards but then figured that would cost me to get it repaired and maybe sued by the owners of the park so I just wrote it off...Lets see how much I dare to write off of my income tax?