Uke Lesson

During my Kauai trip, I made an appointment to take a beginner's Ukulele lesson from an accomplished Slack Key Guitar and Ukulele player. I can't tell you his name until I become a good uke player myself.

My teacher was very good and he was very serious about teaching, so Jack and I were very serious too. He said Jack could sit in the room while I was taking the lesson, as long as he stayed quiet.

My appointment was at 10. Jack drove me to find his place, and we were 30 minutes early, so we parked the rental car in the neighborhood community center parking lot. About 5 minutes before 10'clock, Jack said: "Did you clip your nails?" I showed him my left hand's finger nails, and he said they weren't short enough to play a Ukulele. I didn't bring my nail clipper, so we had to drive across the street to a convenient store to buy a nail clipper.

I bought a Ms. Manicure brand pink nail clipper. We only had 2 minutes left, so Jack drove straight to the class, while I carefully clipped my nails.

"This is a good nail clipper. Look, my nail is so smooth now." I said, as I was carefully clipping methodically starting from my thumb.

Jack took a look at my hand and started laughing: "You don't have to clip your thumb nail!"