Monday, July 11, 2005

I Couldn't Resist Sharing This One

thanks to my friend Judy in Arizona for this one.

Wayne the Painter

There was a tradesman, a painter called Wayne, who was very interested in making a penny where he could, so he often would thin down paint to make it go a wee bit further.



                  

As it happened, he got away with this for some time, but eventually the Baptist Church decided to do a big restoration job on the painting of one of their biggest buildings. Wayne put in a bid, and  because his price was so low, he got the job.

And so he set to erecting the trestles and setting up the planks, and buying the paint and, yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it down with turpentine.


Well, Wayne was up on the scaffolding,
painting away, the job nearly completed

when suddenly there was a horrendous
clap of thunder, and the sky opened, the
rain poured down,

                       

washing the thinned paint from all over the church and knocking Wayne clear off the scaffold to land on the lawn among the gravestones, surrounded by telltale puddles of the thinned and useless paint.

Wayne was no fool. He knew this was a judgment from the Almighty, so he got on his knees and cried: "Oh, God! Forgive me! What should I do?"

And from the thunder, a mighty voice spoke...

(you're going to love this)

                                   


                                  


                                




"Repaint! Repaint!  And thin no more!"

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very funny!  JAE

Anonymous said...

hehe!   very funny.....rofl!  ;-)

Sandra xxxxx

Anonymous said...

This is too funny!  Thanks for visiting my journal.  I see from reading your sidebar in your journal we have a lot in common.  I lived in my hometown for 42 years and then moved to Colorado, where I lived for three years and four months.  Before moving to Colorado, I also worked in the same hospital I was born in.  I also love to read and garden!!!  If you were born in 1942, you are the same age as my Mom!!!  She is only 16 years older than me, so she has been much like a sister at times.  She has always looked young for her age and has been mistaken for my sister many times. :)

Blessings!
Susan
http://journals.aol.com/Smjr43/Colorado