There was a tradesman, a painter called
Jock, who was very
interested in making a buck where he could,
so he 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 local diocese decided to do a big
restoration job on painting
the outside of one of its biggest churches.
Jock put in a bid, and because his price
was so low, he got the job.
And so he set to erecting the scaffolding,
setting the planks,
buying the latex paint and, yes I'm sorry
to say,
thinning it down with water.
Well, Jock was up on the scaffolding, painting
away, the job nearly completed
when suddenly there was a horrendous clap
of thunder,
and the sky opened up.
The rain poured down, washing the thinned
paint from
all over the church and knocking Jock
off the scaffolding
to land on the lawn, amoung the gravestones,
surrounded by telltale puddles of the
thinned and useless paint.
Jock was no fool. He knew this was judgment
from the Almighty,
so he got down on his knees and cried
"OH, GOD! forgive me!
What should I do? "
and from the thunder, a mighty voice spoke....
( wait now, you're going to love this)
" REPAINT! REPAINT!
AND THIN NO MORE!!"
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