No matter what I ever do in my life, nothing will be better than figuring out how to make a fully functional Great Highland bagpipe out of brass, fiberglass and carbon fiber.
It took me over ten years to figure out all the sound chambers and inside dimensions of the chanter and all that, but I did. I spent THOUSANDS of hours on it. And wouldn't you know, the only people who can play these complicated instruments are bagpipers, and except for a handful of them, they all dismissed them out of hand and went out of their way to mock me online and even to my face in various beer gardens of several Scottish Festivals. So I gave away nine of them to people who, for all I know, probably just stuffed them in a box and threw them in a closet. But I saved my Green Marble bagpipe and put it up for sale on eBay. Nobody bought it for $4,000 which kinda pissed me off, so I raised the price to $20, 000. I figured if they weren't gonna sell, I'd rather they didn't sell for twenty thousand than four, which of course, they didn't. So I packed them in a box and put them under my bed. And then a couple weeks ago I went back to my YouTube channel to put some videos up for my portable cabin and saw something somebody posted last year on a bagpipe video where he called me a fool because, "How can make a bagpipe when he doesn't even play them?" Well I can tell you RufusMcDufus69 or whatever the hell your name was, it's because I spent YEARS on it. I went to your YouTube channel to see what you've made but it was just a bunch of Pantera videos, so screw you. So I pulled out my last set of pipes and now they're hanging up in full display in the portable cabin I built, and it makes me happy every time I look at them.
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