In Reply to: The red paint spills best! posted by Dan Sawatzky on July 17, 19102 at 20:24:55:
Dan,...good one! I can almost visualize it.
I can't remember if it was Monte Jumper or Ellis Doughty that told me a story at one of the Letterheads meetings, but when I heard it, I believed it to be true. Whichever it was told me he was finished on a job for the day and the crew was beginning their trip home. They were in one of those flat bed ladder trucks with all their paint safely stored in an milk crate fastened on the back of the truck. He said that as they were gaining speed to enter the highway, they hit an unusually big pothole or frost heave. As he looked back in the mirror, the gallon of yellow bulletin enamel was just lifting out and over the edges of the box and out into the highway entrance. The can exploded as it hit the highway, just like Dan mentioned above. As any civic minded driver would do, they pressed the pedal a little harder and got out of there as quick as possible. The next evening, they headed home again from the same job site and could see yellow car tracks swerving randomly all over the highway.
Okay, it is not a red paint story, but close enough! It should have been red.
Mike Jackson