You May Be A Parking Lot Striper If....

oookay...I'm starting this one out....y'all chime in: You May Be A Parking Lot Striper If: -you walk in straight lines with less than 1/4" waver in 10 feet -all your shoes have white and yellow paint on them -the back of your pickup looks like a Jackson Pollack painting -you've gone sightseeing in a parking lot -you like the smell of toluene -you are a member of the Traffic Cone Preservation Society -you've wondered how fast a LineDriver will go with the governor off.... -the smell of traffic paint reminds you of money -you've seen the "possum" picture and get it -you hate architects -you think engineers are morons -you've ever painted your house with a parking lot striper -you can count forwards and backwards by 9's effortlessly. -you know the "real" Graco doesn't make baby strollers -you've ever got "hot foot" from walking on fresh laid asphalt -you ride down the highway with your head out the window to see how straight the centerline is -you actually know how they make highway markings reflective -you've ever walked 15 miles - in one parking lot. -you've "pimped" your LineDriver -you know the difference between Toluene, Xylene and MEK. -instead of the statue of Jesus, you give thanks to the bottle of Ibuprofen on your dash -you've said to a General Contractor "Let me see if I have my parking lot stretcher with me" -the 3-4-5 triangle is all the geometry you remember from high school -you know what a 'banana line' is -you stop on the side of the road to adopt "orphan cones" -you know that Toluene is one of the "T's" in TNT -you ride through parking lots "grading" other striper's work -you can tell who striped the lot by looking at the handicap symbols -you've ever followed a highway striping truck for 15 miles...just to watch -you've ever stopped to figure out how many times a stencil has been blacked out -you have a picture scrapbook of "striping bloopers"---and at least one of them is yours -you learned the hard way what "sun stroke" is like -you've created a "highway picasso" by dropping a five off the tailgate at 35+ mph -when you look at pictures of foreign cities, your eye is drawn to the street markings instead of the cathedrals -your daughter has the only permanent street hopscotch court in town -you can't remember your last "40 hour week" Jackson Pollack got nothing on me...

thats brilliant!!!!

16 out of 25

You walk across a parking lot.......any parking lot and step over each line.

StraightLineJim wrote on May 27, 2005:Go to #4

You walk across a parking lot.......any parking lot and step over each line.

Step on a line, break your mother's spine!

You might be a striper if You look like you look a ghost from using white chalk You know that ever curb is not straight You know which way the car went after hitting the paint You love following other peoples messed up lines People are talking about the weather and you can give them a 3 day report -Dean

All of the above never stop at a stop sign in a lot always find a parking spot be it marked or unmarked your garbage bag in your truck is full of empty coffee cups you know where all the coffee shops are TGIF means nothing you can navigate the city by taking short cuts through parking lots you know what baracade's and cones are about

Way to cool BTS you did it again!!

The hamburger flipper looks at you even more strangly than normal. You go to wash your hands while waiting on the food, look in the mirror and you have more than one color of paint on your face.

\\\STRIPES/// wrote on May 28, 2005:Go to #9

The hamburger flipper looks at you even more strangly than normal. You go to wash your hands while waiting on the food, look in the mirror and you have more than one color of paint on your face.

War paint.

BTS Thats too funny BTW are you a member of the Traffic Cone Preservation Society

That was good for a few laughs! Asphaltman, Have you joined the traffic cone society yet? I joined years ago.

I have un-officially joined I sure have a lot of 18" orphans around the shop Guess Ill print out the little ID card, so I am official

I am a card-carrying member

lmfao....... also when u point out to the MRS. or anyone who will listen that " i painted that" referring to every lot you've painted and some you havent..... ...... if you've ever washed a pair of shorts with chalk in the pockets!

You might be a striper if! If you go to work at 4:am, quit because everyone is comming to work so you can't paint. then back at the same lot at 7:pm till midnight. if everyone wants you to do things for them because you don't work durning the day. If you know when the security people make there rounds at every store in town.

Dwan wrote on May 31, 2005:Go to #16

if everyone wants you to do things for them because

"you don't work during the day". AAAAAMEN!

If every lot you see, you either say, "I painted that!" or "Hey! Why didn't **I** paint that!?" Never mind that you live in a huge city, so there's no way you could have painted everything. But you got that jonesing to be the Striper King going on.

You park in another lot that some else did and when you get out of the car you make the other person riding with look at the lines. I usually say "Man look at those crooked A** lines" Woman look at me like I am crazy and men do the same. or If you have ever touched a line to see if it was dry -Dean

You might be a striper if..... uneven starts/stops drive you nuts (especially if they are someone elses you are re-striping) you know the way the hash marks are supposed to go you have glass beads in your sandwich any given pair of pants has at least on speck of yellow/white/blue/red or black paint on them you can actually tell what 4" is by looking at it (and you don't stretch the truth any) you can dance to the beat of your pump squeaking and that sounds like $ upside down black marking paint is your closet secret keeper .......