The Sherwood Green kid
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Once upon a time I was working in a college for trainee painters and there was a very well organised system for storage of materials. The new tins stayed at the top of a 7 foot tall cupboard and the used ones were stored on the shelves below, arranged by primer, topcoat, wall paint. The students were under threat of death if they mucked up the system. Not that disorderly paint tins is a matter of life and death, but college employees want an easy life.
I mentioned once before an apprentice who didn't have the brain cells to ask the driver to tell him when they were at a specific bus stop. My colleague told me that the same character had given him an even bigger laugh.
Student X decided he was going to break the rules of paint organisation, and reach up to grab a 1 gallon tin of green oil gloss paint from the top shelf without using a pair of steps. All the lecturer knew of this flawed and subversive plan was when he heard an almighty "F---!" followed by a room full of belly laugh laughter.
Can you imagine how the lecturer felt when he looked across the room to see a diminishing cascade of shiny green paint and a glossed up teenager below, covered from head to toe? Everyone was having hysterics, especially as the kid just stood there shaking his head, a pool of green spreading rapidly across the floor. Luckily the lecturer realised the danger and holding back the grins, told him to keep his eyes and mouth shut and not to move a muscle till he was told.
It was class dismissed and it took the lecturer an hour to clean the kid down till he was even close to being in a position to go to the showers armed with horrible slimy detergent for his hair and skin. Needless to say, none of his classmates would lend him any clothes, so he had to wear a flowery blouse that hadn't yet been torn up for rags, and a pair of old bib and brace overalls.
I am not sure there is a moral to this, except, what a case, and to be fair, The Sherwood Green Kid always came back for more.
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