Now that is funny Dennis! I bet you did that too!I've discovered, while trying to learn "Never going back again" late at night, that if you put your left hand over the third fret and your right hand at about the sixth fret, it's possible to fling the guitar down the driveway so that it skids instead of bounces, avoiding waking up the neighbors.
I did demolish my first guitar and most of my first tennis rackets... but my temperament has cooled with the years .
Maybe the most important thing I have come to understand over the years is that no matter how little you improve in one sitting, over a few months you improve perceptibly and improvement builds up over time so that a year later you are a lot better than you were and there is not much regressing if you keep at it.