quote:Originally posted by Ray Rheaume: ...when you reach into your pocket to pay for something in the store, you spend 10 minutes moving around your tape measure, retractable blade, squeegees, pencils and the tiny bits of application tape to access your loose change.
Hehehe been there done that!
I usually wear swim trunks or board shorts with big pockets every day.
One day on my way home from a morning application job I stopped at another local mom-n-pop shop that's also a vinyl distributor to pick up some film. Naturally, my wallet was out in the truck but I didnt know it at the time. Thinking it was burried in a pocket I started pulling out the scissors, X-actos, squeegees, masking tape, magnets, tweezers, etc etc in search of it. I even had discarded pieces of release liner and transfer tape in there (I put it in the most convenient spot while doing applications, hehe). The owners of the shop (a husband and wife team) got a kick out of that spectacle, they knew what it was like too.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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You use RT to cover up the smell of stale solvent spilled in your vehicle.
You use a scrap piece of vinyl to cover up the hole in the drywall that the doornob created in the shop.
You're always picking out little pieces of vinyl from your shoes/socks/sleeves/dog/cat.
You look in the mirror and discover why the customer looked at you so funny... blue chalk pouncing dust cause you had an itchy nose.
You hold a brush in your teeth so you can re-position a sign on the easel, and re-discover you taste for one-shot.
discovering scrap vinyl makes for a great lint/pet hair remover
going along with Jill's blue boob incident....for the guys at least... discovering a rainbow of coloured finger prints on your private member at the end of a paint slinging day ...(got to wash before AND after)
-------------------- "Are we having fun yet?" Peter Schuttinga DZines Sign Studio 1617 Millstream rd Victoria BC V9B-6G4 Posts: 521 | From: Victoria BC | Registered: Mar 2002
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You've ever painted your dog. Ture Story: Someone asked what happened to the new pup that he had dried blood on him. I looked & discovered it was burgundy 1-shot.
Peter, the brush in the teeth thing is the reason I wear a hat. Didn't wear one at Boone's while I was painting & the rest of the day everyone had to tell me I had paint in my hair.
-------------------- Chris Welker Wildfire Signs Indiana, Pa Posts: 4254 | From: Indiana, PA | Registered: Mar 2001
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Kissy!! All my dogs have been 1, black or chocolate labs (dark coats) 2,they have all loved to lay right under whatever I'm primin' or coatin' out, which always seems to be 3, when I'm usin' white or some other lite colour . . .4, they have all always walked around with spots and dots . . 5 they always wag the entire last 2' of their tail in that colour because they are always excited when I'm finished with a perfect panel . . . and 6, my trade-mark is at least one long-dog hair in every panel.
I think it's become sort of a shop-policy and brings good luck too . . . . .
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"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a dog" Posts: 5758 | From: "Sweet Home" Alabama | Registered: Mar 2003
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... if you stick tape on your shirt and go shopping like that because you didn't peel off the "lower" ones. ... if you've reached lower and lower off a ladder and realized you could step down one, or work from the ground instead. ... if your kids groan, "I know Dad... you made that sign." ... if same kids, with friends in car brag, "My Dad did that sign!" ... if you use nose grease to remove everything. ... if you're ticked because the restaurant you're in has stuff printed on the BACK of the placemats (that's plain wrong). ... if you realize that the mayo on your sandwich is removing that paint better than your handcleaners did. ... if you are lamenting that OneShot is going lead-free instead of celebrating the health advantages. ... if you buy stuff at auctions that you may be able to use on a sign one day. ... if you tell a customer, "No problem!" and then go to Letterville to find out how to do the job!
Ray, thanks for bumping this up. Great stuff.
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-------------------- Gene Golden Gettysburg Signs Gettysburg PA 17325 717-334-0200 genegolden@gettysburgsigns.com
"Art is knowing when to stop." Posts: 1578 | From: Gettysburg, PA | Registered: Jun 2003
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When the amount of your Stuff (sign stuff)equals the amount of his stuff (A two story a garage full of old autos, parts and tools)YMBAL
When you buy a new shirt with a logo on it and the colors are too brite( yikes) yet you love the design and dust it with a can of white spray paint to match the white backgrond for that old worn look. YMBAL
when you cant wear nail poish at work because it will eventually get smeared all over your signwork YMBAL
When you start cutting up some of your favorite old t-shirts to sleeveless and dont feel bad cause your gonna see them and wear them regularily now for work YMBAL
Every time someone fwd-sends a cool poem, sayin or quote and your are compelled to share with other e-friends But- not until you copy and paste onto a new page and alter all the letter heights and styles till it looks cool,effective and impacting, before you mail it off to others YMBAL
Hey thanks for all the input. this page made my month
Ray --- Love your motto and think Ill have to make a sign out of it for me, TODAY
-------------------- Jane Brubaker Graphic Horizons Lincoln, NE graficjane@aol.com Posts: 6 | From: Lincoln, NE | Registered: Aug 2004
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-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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When you awake from a Meet and relize it wasn't a dream.
-------------------- Kevin Betz KB Sign Company 21321 Ulrich Clinton Township, MI 48036 kbsigncompany@att.net Posts: 229 | From: Detroit, MI | Registered: Sep 2003
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When you trade groceries for paper signs YMBAL
-------------------- Frank Magoo, Magoo's-Las Vegas; fmagoo@netzero.com "the only easy day was yesterday" Posts: 2365 | From: Las Vegas, Nv. | Registered: Jun 2003
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YMBAL if you keep coming in here to check and see if another funnie has been posted on subject of YMBAL
-------------------- Frank Magoo, Magoo's-Las Vegas; fmagoo@netzero.com "the only easy day was yesterday" Posts: 2365 | From: Las Vegas, Nv. | Registered: Jun 2003
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If, you see a nice sign, go into the store/place and tell the owners firstly what a fine sign they have, whatever it cost was worth it, then detail to them "why" it's so cool. Makes their day!
John, just back from Ottawa and Prince Edward County, Ontario.
-------------------- John Lennig / Big Top Sign Arts 5668 Ewart Street, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada bigtopya@hotmail.com 604.451.0006 Posts: 2184 | From: Burnaby, British Columbia,Canada | Registered: Nov 2001
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I never considered myself a real letterhead, but maybe my ex was psychic, for she often called me the "One Shot Wonder"....and let me see....."The Minute Man".....and what was the other??? Oh yeah,..."Fast Eddie"....
-------------------- William "Irish" Holohan Resting...Read "Between Jobs." Marlboro, MA 01752 email: firemap1@aol.com Posts: 1110 | From: Marlboro, MA | Registered: Dec 2001
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If you pee in the One-Shot,on a really cold day to keep the colors from slidin' down a window or on a galvanized metal billboard. Yeh, I have really done that and it works!
before I was...CrazyJack
-------------------- Jack Wills Studio Design Works 1465 E.Hidalgo Circle Nye Beach / Newport, OR Posts: 2914 | From: Rocklin, CA. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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~You clean paint out of your fingernails & cuticles any time you have a chance to sit down and have nothing to do...like, on the phone, in church, on a date, sitting in the Dr's office, or when you finally get to be a vehicle passenger . . .
~When these opportunities present themselves and you're miffed because you don't happen to have a razor knife handy to REALLY clean your nails good with . . . YMBAL.
YMBAL if your kid yells at you for trying to clean your fingernails while driving. . .
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"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a dog" Posts: 5758 | From: "Sweet Home" Alabama | Registered: Mar 2003
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quote: After returning from your vacation to DisneyWorld your wife wonders why we have 4 rolls of film of signs and none of the kids, YMBAL
LOL! My father did the same thing when we went in '77. My mother and I were not happy. Every time we turned around, he'd be off somewhere taking pictures of signs.
So, FF 25 years and I'm on vacation with my family and I find myself doing the same thing at this ghosttown we went to. I looked at my husband and exclaimed with dismay - "I've turned into my father!"
I still have those sign pics he took at Disney World by the way.
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
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and if your handkerchiefs resemble 'abstract works of art', ymbal.
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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If you always have an exacto or two sticking out of your back pocket, and they all look at you strangely in the bank line up - you might be a letterhead.
Your teenagers whine because they are driving around in a really embarrassing "Dragon Wagon" - you might be a letterhead.
You go out in public and everyone knows whose store you are working on because your face has colours that match it - you might be a letterhead.
'Some' of your toenails are painted with one shot and you don't even know it (Grampa Dan!!!!)- you might be a letterhead.
-------------------- Deri Russell Wildwood Signs Hanover, Ontario
You're just jealous 'cause the little voices only talk to me. Posts: 1904 | From: Hanover, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Dec 1998
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And just think there are people out there that pay for material that they could get for free here. Let's hope they never find this site, huh Jill Beans. I should have been a fly on the wall at that happening. Truthfully I have lived several of the incidents, and I can laugh again now. Thank ya'll for the memories. Peace, Don
-------------------- Donald Miner ABCO Wholesale Neon 1168 Red Hill Creek Dobson, NC Posts: 842 | From: North Carolina | Registered: Apr 2006
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Here is one I forgot in my prior post. YMBAL if you frame that paint spattered shop towel and enter it in a local art contest and it wins first place. This really happened back in the late 60's. Maybe Jill should have made an impression print of the teal incident and entered that. Gee whiz Jill will you ever live that one down? Remember you are among friends. Peace, Don
-------------------- Donald Miner ABCO Wholesale Neon 1168 Red Hill Creek Dobson, NC Posts: 842 | From: North Carolina | Registered: Apr 2006
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While in the back seat of the county squad for not paying a seat belt fine the cop strikes up a conversation about pinstriping his cruiser.
You call 911 because you think your ex stole a sketch.
The county judge shows you his art work after he retires and asks your opinion.
Just tell them Mike the sign painter sent ya.
People walk into your sign shop and ask if you paint signs.
You've heard the story of that old, old sign painter that drank too much and shook like a leaf in the wind, BUT... when his brush touched the board he was steady as a rock. You've heard that same story for over 20 years wherever you travel.
You get asked if you can letter a subliminal message on the primer before the top coat.
-------------------- Michael Heaton Brushworks Yelm, Washington 360-339-0914 Posts: 14 | From: Yelm, Washington | Registered: Jun 2007
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Your idea of camping years ago was pitching a tent next to a billboard in a corn field along the interstate and you honestly wonder why you can't get a girl to go with you.
-------------------- Michael Heaton Brushworks Yelm, Washington 360-339-0914 Posts: 14 | From: Yelm, Washington | Registered: Jun 2007
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. . . Thanx Ray . . . it was a hoot to read all these again . . .
YMALH if your teen or pre-teen is reluctant to share their cute T's or shoes with you: "You better NOT get paint on it mama!!!!'
YMALH when instead of replacing tile-board around the tub . . . since its only rotting around the bottom, you cover it with 8" wide stripes of white vinyl and it's held up great for months now!!
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All my dogs have been 1, black or chocolate labs (dark coats) 2,they have all loved to lay right under whatever I'm primin' or coatin' out, which always seems to be 3, when I'm usin' white or some other lite colour . . .4, they have all always walked around with spots and dots . . 5 they always wag the entire last 2' of their tail in that colour because they are always excited when I'm finished with a perfect panel . . . and 6, my trade-mark is at least one long-dog hair in every panel.
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