One for Fathers day

Anything Else!

Moderators: GreenBean, Gouezeri, bruceb, CakeBoy

One for Fathers day

Postby motoman » Sat Jun 18, 2016 9:21 am

There was a Scottish painter named Smokey MacGregor who was very interested in making a penny where he could, so he often thinned down his paint to make it go a wee bit further.

As it happened, he got away with this for some time, but eventually the local church decided to do a big restoration job on the outside of one of their biggest buildings.Smokey put in a bid, and, because his price was so low, he got the job. So he set about erecting the scaffolding and setting up the planks, and buying the paint and, yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it down with turpentine.... Well, Smokey was up on the scaffolding, painting away, the job nearly completed, when suddenly there was a horrendous clap of thunder, the sky opened, and the rain poured down washing the thinned paint from all over the church and knocking Smokey clear off the scaffold to land on the lawn among the gravestones, surrounded by telltale puddles of the thinned and useless paint.

Smokey was no fool. He knew this was a judgement from the Almighty, so he got down on his knees and cried:"Oh, God, Oh God, forgive me; what should I do?" And from the thunder, a mighty voice spoke.



"Repaint! Repaint! And thin no more!"
La Valentina Levetta
Mazzer Mini
Huky 500T
Bodum s/s Press Pot(Covered in dust)
Mokka, Vietnamese Press and other pots(unseen since I fell in love with La Valentina)
User avatar
motoman
 
Posts: 1090
Joined: Sat Jul 09, 2005 1:41 pm
Location: Bridgnorth, Shropshire UK

Re: One for Fathers day

Postby Alberto2445 » Wed Feb 01, 2017 10:31 am

Thanks for sharing such a nice story. I am really glad to know about. Keep it up!
Alberto2445
 
Posts: 6
Joined: Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:32 pm


Return to Off Topic

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 23 guests

cron