Hank, Practice with a Mando is an obsession- it starts out slowly. You're sitting there watching TV, it's a commercial break, the Mando is just sitting there. It's so easy to just pick it up and play with it, just for a couple of minutes, you try to play softly so as not to alienate your family. It just grows and grows. Pretty soon, you're attempting to play along with all of the background music, you play a little louder so you can hear yourself.

I actually had an aquaintance who's girlfriend left him because of his chronic practicing the mando. Snookums