The concrete dock was only a little more than a week old. It was pristine

when one of my guys was lowering a bunch of paint on to it. A can of red paint fell off and busted open right on the new dock.

Had it even been a month or so later nobody would have thought twice about it but this was the first mess made on it.

We cleaned it up as best we could. We used about 5 gallons of thinner to clean it up but there is always the scum left over and no matter how much you try you can never make it go away.

One of the guys asked how we were going to get out of the inevitible ass chewing coming along and my reply was it was easy.

I took my finger and wrote "Bob R. did it" in the leftover scum and we never heard a single word about it.

I later heard they tried to say something to Bob R. but he happened to be out of town when the accident occurred. A few days later someone else spilled some hydraulic fluid on the dock and it was considered broken in after that.

To find out why the blog is pink just cut and paste this: http://piccoloshash.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-feminine-side-blog-stays-pink.html NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED IN THE WRITING OF TODAY'S ESSAY