Rediscover the FUN in Paint Jobs

Jun 29
08:04

2011

Siva Sunder

Siva Sunder

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We've all been there. That paint job that needed doing. Putting it off for ages. But work is no longer work when you put some fun in it. Like Tom Sawyer did.

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There was this guy,Rediscover the FUN in Paint Jobs Articles Tom Lawyer, whose porch needed a paint job badly. Naturally, our man, busy guy that he was, kept postponing it. One fine saturday morning, when he is out at the golf course, an out-of-work man knocks on the door. Mrs Tom answers. "Pardon me Mam, Im out of work and looking for any odd jobs that people need done. I'm very handy with everything from repairs to yard work, to painting...""Painting?" milady jumped in."Oh, yes, Ma'am! Im a very careful painter," the man replied, his face brightening at the realization she could provide him some work."I'll tell you what. My husband just bought some green paint last week to paint the porch out back with, but we haven't had any time. If you can do a good job, then you can paint it before he gets home and surprise him."Now, do a particularly good job and paint the trimmings white also, and I'll pay you an extra bonus.""Oh yes, Ma'am, I'll do an excellent job!" He was told the paints were also around back in the garage.A few hours later, the man returns to the door."That was quick, did you do a good job?" the woman inquires."Oh yes Ma'am, two coats! But there's something you should know," the man says."That's not a Porsche, thats a Mercedes!"We've all been there. That paint job that needed doing. Putting it off for ages. Do the job and your day is hell. Leave it for later and it gets messier and messier. Well it started pretty much the same way for Tom Sawyer( Leave out the wife part )."Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life... Tom ( Sawyer ) appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden."But it didn't end that way did it?  " At this dark and hopeless moment an inspiration burst upon him! Nothing less than a great, magnificent inspiration." Tom got a brainwave. We know what happened after that. Well, times have changed. Unlike in the good old days, it's no longer that easy to get a Ben Rogers who would do the job for you and not charge $60 an hour. But the lesson here is, work is no longer work when you put some fun in it.And a bit of drama if you can. Remember your first box of water colors.Remember spray painting with a toothbrush when you were a kid. Remember the Paintball arena. There was lots of paint there too. And lots of cleaning up after. But it still was fun, right? After all, “Like it? Well, I don’t see why I oughtn’t to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?”So don't postpone the fun. Get that Wagner Power Painter out, fill the paint, and become a kid once more.It won't be a chore anymore.