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It was my job to restore this warehouse back to a bland boring place.

Ive been the painter for Active, almost 20 years, the company was recently sold

and their distribution warehouse was shutting down.

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my Instigram handle

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A friend of mine didnt get the joke when i posted this on Instigram

Hopefully he wont find it here- but if he does (IM JOKING)

I like the paintings your mom did.  especially the pook one! she did the cutouts under that last portrait too?

first 7 are from an army navy store by me,  the first 2 i got 10 years ago and they said they were the last they had. a year ago they went out of business and i got the rest for half price when they cleaned the place out. i have a second clean pair of  the lee genuine too.  next two just thrifted. last one I get at the paint store but they are getting rarer. 

I helped my cousin out,  I worked a day doing prep work on a commercial building

he's working on. My cousin has had a long standing account, working for a large waste

disposal company,  This place has three yard cats- as you will see......

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This cat sleeps with the security guard- on his golf cart.

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this one found our work station

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This one's in the Boss mans- inside parking garage.

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Boots that don't look all that good with age.

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This place had the same type of wash station- that  back in the late 1980's, I played my best unintentional prank ever.

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Back in the late 80's- My father's employee and I,  were painting the outside of this large commercial building. I went inside the building to wash out my brush, i finished up and Marteen walked in with his brush- he had never seen this type of wash sink- he didn't know that you turned the water on with your foot He asked- How do you turn on the water? I took out my rag, and smacked it against the water pipe that came from the ceiling, and fed into the top of thee sink, the water came on (I was working it with my foot) The water stopped- now it was his turn, he smacked the pipe with his rag- nothing happens, he tries again, nothing

I show him another way- I move the soap handle- the water comes on.......He tries

Nothing.......I take out my putty knife, i touch the side of the sink- the water comes on.

This went on for 5 minutes, with the new ways of turning the water on- getting more and more

ridiculous with each advancing step.

To this day- I've never seen a man's face,  that puzzled...........ever again.

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