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Idiots and paint

Monday, 5th May 2008

I've just seen the weirdest thing. I was buying some paint in the DIY shop when, out of nowhere, bright yellow paint started flying across the aisle. I was lucky: it hit my fingers, jeans and shoes but nothing else. Those near to the epicentre, as it were, were not so lucky: some people were covered from head to toe in paint.

It seems that some moron was trying to prize open the paint container (heaven knows why) and it slipped in his hand, crashing to the ground and covering everything near it. It's no wonder we share so much DNA with apes.

I've no idea what the poor people covered in paint will do. Forget about their clothes, which are ruined. How will they even get home?

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Alf Tupper

May 5th, 2008 12:42pm

You're lucky - I can't even go in my local B&W, I'm barred.

It's unfair, all I did was walk in one day, the assistant walks up to me as I passed through the door and he asks me if I want decking.
Well, I'm only small so I make a point always, of getting in first with a telling right.

Sorry about your jeans.

Lee Jakeman

May 5th, 2008 5:35pm

In the Roller?

world's number one Steve Ovett fan

May 5th, 2008 6:56pm

Well done Alf Tupper. As the great Carwyn James said, 'Get your retaliation in first.'
And you can do it confident in the knowledge that, if the decked shop assistant had got up ,you could have outrun him.

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May 6th, 2008 3:38pm

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