Today, I was babysitting my nephew. He was watching the episode where Spongebob smashes his guitar while playing. I walk into the kitchen to make him a snack, and I hear a loud crash... My nephew smashing my brand new guitar to be like Spongebob. FML
by maxus — miscellaneous
I vote you charge extra for babysitting.
He was watching spongebob with the nephew. He only left the room to make the kid a sandwich. That's part of the job, guy. If the kid's big enough to smash a guitar, he's old enough to be left one room away while you make him a sandwich.
ohh hell nah, spongebob is not horrid crap! it's the greatest show ever so fuck wit it!
Greatest show ever? Either you're 5 or you smoke way too much weed.
OP, I hope you told your aunt and/or uncle to tan his hide til he couldn't sit.
Uh oh. I hope he doesn't turn into a fag too! D:
I HATE spongebob!
YDI for 2 reasons: I guess you weren't watching him very closely. AND you used the phrase "the episode where", meaning you know it well.
you're a heartless person, youthink.
like when you said that guy didnt care even though he drove his gf to the hospital.
now you're saying that watching spongebob is a bad thing. I cant wait to see what you say next
i second this.
youthink isn't heartless, just retarded. Although I agree Spongebob is terribad.
The OP was sitting there with his nephew. We don't know who picked the channel and as far as we know, this is the only episode he's seen, but I think anyone who has heard of the show can all assume that Spongebob isn't smashing guitars all that often. He was merely pointing out the part of the episode that relates to this anecdote.
"that episode where..." is just explaining the background and the reason behind the story. and is it really that bad to let a kid watch tv for 3 minutes? so you can feed him?
You left a brand new guitar unattended around someone that young? YDI.
sue sponge bob.
It is every patriotic American's duty to sue whoever they can, whenever they can, for whatever reason they can think of.
The C-A-M-P-F-I-R-E-S-O-N-G song!~
"youthink", what's wrong with someone like Spongebob?
Do people on this site keep guitars in reach of little kids all the time? Geeze, buy some wall hangers or a locked case or something.
Seriously? That isn't exactly common for people to do, is it?
Most people just leave their guitars in their rooms, in the case or such.
You don't tend to assume "Oh, shit, my nephew's going to be here one day when I'm babysitting, and act like a prat! Best hang it on the wall 8D"
...idiot.
Uh, my guitars are always on their wallhangers, because
A: They make great decorations.
B: It's nice and safe from being accidentally bumped.
And my friend keeps his Gibson Les Paul in a locked case all the time when he's not playing it. But we're used to protecting our instruments, so I guess it's not common sense if you don't care if it gets ruined or not.
there are so many of these fmls in so many diff forms
I can recite almost every episode of Spongebob just because my niece watches it 24/7. Fortunately if she ever feels the need to smash a guitar, she has her own - I would probably do something illegal if she smashed mine.
Lol i know what episode it is :D THE CAMPFIRE SONG SONG :D
Though I don't condone it, I'm sure you can get a replacement guitar if you sue Nickelodeon...so long as the kid says he smashed it because he saw it on Spongebob, and there were no other possible causes.
Clearly it's time to get your nephew's parents to pony up the money and replace the guitar. There's no way you should have to bear the loss for their kid's destructive tendencies.
I second this.
How old is your nephew? I doubt a 5 year old toddler can lift a guitar.
it willll helppppppp if you jussst playyyyyyyy aloooooonggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg!!!!!!! oh yeaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i bet spongebob, seeing you left the room, emitted mind control waves into your nephew and hypnotized hin with his seductive chram and raw blue eye power and told the kid to smash your guitar....... oooooooooooooooooooooooooo XD j/k but seriously.. make his parents compensate
"Good thing we're all wearing our anti-sea-rhinoceros undergarments, right Squidward?"
i would punch his face
It's pretty hard to smash up a an electric guitar, and even a half-decent acoustic should thwart a youngster's attempts at instrument abuse.
Having said that, Spongebob is an idiotic piece of programming and if the kid does stupid things after you exposed him to a stupid TV show, look in the mirror for the person you should be blaming. YDI.
That's what I was thinking. Unless this child was a freakishly-strong mutant.. which I suspect may be the case as many children these days are products of failed scientific experiments. (^.^)
of course there's a pretentious high schooler who thinks saying "you deserve it for putting spongebob on" makes him look "better". sorry kiddo, but elementary school kids would rather watch spongebob than take emo pictures for their Myspaces and watch movies about effeminate vampires like you probably do. and parents are, for the most part, out of the Pretentious High Schooler stage so they don't care that Spongebob isn't considered elite and groundbreaking. its a KIDS SHOW.
I'll have you know I'm 29, 'kiddo'. Don't let my baby-smooth skin fool you. :)
Not a Twilight fan either. Or a Myspace whore. But the rest of your put-down was awesome.
No child of mine will ever watch Spongebob, nor any of the frankly bizarre "kids shows" I've come across both here (US) and in the UK. I'll be doing something radical: interacting and being part of my own kids' lives! *gasp* I know, I know, who would actually be foolhardy enough to try such a thing!? Well, my own parents did it and I turned out ok-ish. My wife's a teacher, so between us we might be able to turn out something half-decent.
Check some international education ranking tables. The US doesn't even make it into the Top 25 for reading, maths or science! Millions of stupid kids, raised by stupid parents on stupid TV shows. Tbh, not only is this a YDI for the OP but it's a FML for that kid, whose parents obviously don't give a flying fuck about his brain.
My childhood was crappy because I didn't have Spongebob..? o_O
You have a tragic metric for happiness.
Never leave anything valuable around little kids. They're more destructive than woodchippers.
So, your brother, or sister, or whomever it is the little hellion belongs to, can buy you a new one.
kids are very impressionable. tv should be banned for kids under 18. once ur an adult, then you can choose for yourself but before that tv should be banned. think how much better society would be. it's a question of the greater good
Right, and we should lock up the libraries because there are some books with bad words. OH! and sidewalks are so hard and danergous! They'll need knee and elbowpads at all times!
Don't make it tv's fault that bad parents exist. I'm pretty sure you weren't 18 before tv was invented. Did you destroy things on a regular basis?
actually, its the Republicans who think kids are too impressionable, they are the ones censoring and banning everything that adults like while saying "THINK OF DER CHILDREN!!11" to justify it.
"Lets gather around the campfire, and sing our campfire song. Our C.A.M.P.F.I.R.E S.O.N.G song."
omg make him watch the episode where spongebob and them all swear lmfaooo
Sailor Mouth?
I hate anyone who does that. except for kiss. they did it cool.
You should smash him over the head with an axe so you can be like Lizzie Borden.
:D
YES! I second this idea.
^_^
I'm assuming you threw the kid out your window, right? Because if some little shit touched one of MY guitars inappropriately, I'd beat him so hard he'd forget his own name.
how old is this kid anyways? like seriously, as soon as a kids old enough to be watching spongebob and imitating it, their normaly old enough to know not too...
OP, make his parents pay for a new guitar.
I hate little brats and will never have one. FYL, even though you should have been more curious as to where the little shit ran off to while you were making him a sandwich. If a kid ran off somewhere in my house and didn't come back into my visual range within five seconds, I would have gotten curious and checked. Hopefully you can get a new guitar. Force the parents to pay for a new one.
Spongebob is the worst thing to happen to children ever. =(
I warned everyone Spongebob would corrupt our youth, BUT NOBODY LISTENED
proud_liberal is probably some disgruntled Republican pedophile who has nothing better to do than go onto websites and "show them" how bad "the liberals" are by pretending to be a "liberal."
He sounds like if Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck had a very angry baby.
That sucks ass.
LOL C-A-M-P-F-I-R-E-S-O-N-G Song....
Yeahhhhhhhhhh
Ok, FML for knowing that.
why is every1 bashing spongebob? it's a good cartoon
This is why you put nice/expensive/things you don't want broken out of the reach of children. UFO
During his band?
FAIL
FYL but what type of guitar was it?
you're stalking people on FML?
what a brat.
I hate kids like that.
spongebob is the best thing thats happened in my life.
Ah, knowing the backstory makes me feel bad for saying YDI.. you do sound like a cool uncle. :)
Does he now think of you as the "angry screaming uncle" or did you manage to hide your feelings?
And what kind of guitar and how bad was the damage? If it happened to any of mine, I would be mortified.
make his parents pay for the guitar!!!
spongebob.... just another way to lower the intelligence level of the American people. retarded shows like that should be banned. i refuse to let my kids watch trash like that. what happened to good cartoons??
Please shut up to all of you Spongebob haters. There is no such thing as "good cartoons". They are all pretty much pointless, whether they're about a sailor who can't put a sentence together or a cat who keeps trying to catch a mouse (HE NEVER CATCHES IT!! WHY DO YOU KEEP WATCHING??) or a sponge whose best friend is a retarded gay starfish. A lot of the people hating on Spongebob are biased because they weren't raised around it. I personally love Spongebob. I have been watching it since I was 4 years old. And no, I'm not stupid. I am an honors student with a 4.2 GPA. But I have to say that kid has some issues if he smashed a guitar because he wanted to be like an underwater kitchen sponge...
There are a /few/ cartoons that have morals and something to teach kids. Not many, mind you, because not enough adults care about the content, but care about the money to be gained.
Honestly, if you pick apart the Spongebob Squarepants show, there are a lot of things that aren't appropriate or at all smart that it is inadvertently (and/or carelessly) teaching kids, of all ages.
Biased because they weren't raised with it? It has been around for ten years. I don't think it's a matter of having watched it from the age of four, I think it's a matter of personal opinion. The show is mindless, pointless, and blatantly obnoxious.
You watched it since you were four. I fail to see the point. So, you're, what, 14? Give or take a few months? (I'm assuming you were four when the show came out.)
This is why if you are going to babysit, you do it at their house. Let them destroy their own shit.
THIS IS PERFECT!!! ROFL!!!....sorry about your guitar though.
Make his parents pay for your Guitar.
And get extra for the hassle. And refuse to babysit the brat ever again.
You either have a really strong nephew or a shitty guitar. Real guitars will take more than a few weak drops to shatter. I've had my $800 telecaster for years and i've dropped it down stairs, smacked it on ceilings, etc. My friend accidentally threw his $1000 les paul 30 feet through the air across a stage, and its still in 100% fine working condition. Buy good guitars, this won't happen.
You're right, I dropped my $1500 Flying V of a 10ft stage and it landed straight on the headstock. One machine head broke. That's it. Real guitars are build to last.
He never said the guitar shattered, or even broke. But if you spent a couple thousand dollars in a guitar, chances are you have a figured top, and don't want a single ding in that wood, shich still happens to a "REAL guitar" if is dropped.
well shit, ive had my 150 dollar bc rich warlock for almost 13 years, and its been through extreme climate change, bein dropped, thrown, hittin ppl wit it, its got some scars, and a bent tuning peg, but the point is, it stood up to all that abuse, and asked for more!!!
well shit, ive had my 150 dollar bc rich warlock for almost 13 years, and its been through extreme climate change, bein dropped, thrown, hittin ppl wit it, its got some scars, and a bent tuning peg, but the point is, it stood up to all that abuse, and asked for more!!!
That's because it's a piece of shit with an 1/8 inch of veneer covering the plywood body. Buy a guitar with a REAL figured top and a glossy finish, then you'll understand.
In my household, everyone knows that "smashing a guitar" equals "child with two broken legs."
YDI for letting the kid watch such a fucking retarded show
