You may be a striper if...
Discussion in After Hours started by TGL (unclaimed legacy handle), Jun 21, 2005. 2 replies, last reply Jun 23, 2005.
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"
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