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| Local man buys guitar in hopes of 'scoring with chicks' |
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| SEATTLE, Wash.--After saving for months, Herbert Knaus, 34, purchased a Gibson Takamine G260 Acoustic Guitar from Vernon's Gutiar Shop in Seattle. His man purpose in purchasing the guitar is to "score with chicks." After many months of being rejected by numerous women at the bar, Knaus was going home lonely. Knaus, a mildly decent looking man earns a living as an |
| auto mechanic at Bo's Auto Shop downtown. "Apparnetly that's not good enough for the single women in Seattle," he said. "The women here perfer men who have enough money to keep buyin'em drinks," Knaus said. "But they also go nuts for men who play music. That's why I got me a guitar." Vernon Pelton, owner of Vernon's Guitar Shop agrees with Knaus' premise. "I never scored before I started playing guitar," he said. "Now it happens all the time. "In fact, I would say 85 percent of my |
| business is just getting people who want to have women attracted to them," Pelton said. Knaus said after his first week with the guitar, it has not begun to work. "I'm only hanging out on the corner for about an hour a day," he said. "Right now my problem is ability. As soon as I get good, I suspect the chicks will be all over me." Jill Kenyon, president of a non-profit research group called "Center for Useless Statistics" said that in fact guys are eight times more likely to "get a piece" if they played a guitar. "There is a large distinction between guitar and other instruments," she said. "If you play, say a trumpet, well you are 16 times less likely to shag with a beautiful hunny as if you played a guitar. Herbert is using his statistics wisely." |
| Herbert Knaus finds the right guitar to bag chicks with at a downtown guitar store. |