Wednesday, May 12, 2004

At least it wasn't pink...

Never drive over a can of paint. If you're lucky (I was) you won't blow a tire.

But, there's a good chance the can of paint will explode, getting all over your car, your wall, your garage, your driveway, the furniture you had just finished stripping and were preparing to paint with said paint, your garbage cans, your recycling, your neighbor's house, and your neighbor's walkway. If you're lucky (I was), it won't get all over your neighbor's dog.

It might also get up onto the top of the covered carport and then drip back down while you're trying to clean off your car. If you work quickly, you can probably get the paint off of the metal parts of your car, but not the plastic parts. But, you should change clothes first as the water from the hose will splash back on you and you'll have to go buy a new pair of $50 dress shoes and ruin a pair of dress slacks through the wash a few times. (You won't know until you get them out of the wash as to whether or not that was actually succesful.)

You'll probably also need to go to a carwash and to Starbucks for comfort food and take a half-day of vacation while you decide if you even still feel like going in to work.

If you're lucky (I was), it will be the five year old car and not the three month old car.

As my wife points out, if you're lucky (I was), it won't be a can of pink paint. (Note: the can of pink paint was a pint-sized can that was mostly empty. The white paint was a mostly full gallon. Trade-off, to be sure. But at this point, a moo point.)


Photos: http://tvjames.blogspot.com/2004/05/cartastrophe-pink-2.html

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for allowing me to learn one of life's most important lessons through you. I real it three times and laughed harder each time.

Anonymous said...

at times it is so difficult to understand that no matter how bad a situation we should always be thankful and feel "lucky" it was not worse.