TOP TEN: Signs your store is overstocked

The local kids think you’ve installed a maze in-store and even the guys at Guitar Center are shaking their heads at you…..

10: You found a WW2 Japanese soldier hiding out in your bass section. Sold him some strings though.

9. The EU are investigating your ‘plectrum mountain’.

8. There are so many boxes, your window display now more closely resembles the ‘sniper’s perch’ at the Texas School Book Depository

7. Even Fender reps have stopped coming to see you

6. You’ve accidentally become the area’s leading stockist of vintage trombones

5. Turns out, even cymbals have sell-by dates

4. You’d do an insurance job, but there’s no longer rooom for enough oxygen in the place to start a fire

3. Customers still browse, but can only move eyes

2. That thing about swinging a dead cat? Messy but true.

1. That’s not dust on that amp, it’s topsoil.