1. When you paint with a roller, no matter how careful you are, paint WILL get on your hand, and you WILL find yourself fused to your roller as a result. Attempting to dislocate your roller only means you elect for the next object you touch to indefinitely fuse in its place.
2. No matter where you place a ladder, it WILL be unstable and tilt/collapse under you. There is nothing that can be done to prevent this. If you think otherwise, you have simply been very lucky with ladders.
3. The most efficient way to clean a roller is to aim at the edge of it with a garden hose, causing the roller to spin quickly and causing the paint on all sides to be powerwashed off.
4. An efficient way of cleaning paint rollers is even more efficient at transmitting the mess to your face and hands.
5. Oil based paint does not wash off face and hands with water.
6.Oil based paint does not wash off face and hands with soap.
7. Oil based paint does not wash off face and hands with bleach.
8. Bleach burns.
9. Paint thinner is an efficient way of cleaning rollers without transmitting the mess.
10. Holding a bucket between your legs is an invitation for it to spill on your legs.
11. Paint thinner burns feel exactly like one's skin is being scorched off while at the same time being frozen off.
12. ag·o·ny [ag-uh-nee]
%u2013noun, plural -nies.
a. extreme and generally prolonged pain; intense physical or mental suffering.
b. a violent struggle.
c. The sensation of one's legs being burned with paint thinner (due to a spill caused by stupidly holding the bucket with said legs) and being unable to wash it off until one gets home (which is fifteen miles away) due to the fact that the thinner burns are under one's jeans, rendering the area unable to be cleansed in public.
13. After fifteen minutes, attempting to wash off chemical burns with water does no good.
14. After fifteen minutes, attempting to wash off chemical burns with water does no good.
15. Butter makes burns worse.
16. A good way to treat chemical burns on the legs is to sit in a tub of cold (or lukewarm for us pansys) water for an hour.
17. This remedy loses most (but fortunately not all) effect once one exits the tub.
18. Paint does not weaken its grip on you while you are worried about your chemical burns. It takes the opportunity to harden (but still remain sticky).
19. Gasoline is an effective way of removing paint from your arms.
20. Gasoline is NOT an effective way of removing paint from your face. Gasoline burns.