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Wallpaper Wars | Struggle with the job of removing wallpaper.BY: Scott Fisher | Category: Home Improvement | Post Date: 2009-10-22
I like learning new things, doing things I've never done before. That is, I did before I met Wallpaper. Everyone has heard of Wallpaper, but not everyone knows him like I do. -Just take this wallpaper off and then paint the room with this paint- were my instructions. Doesn't get any simpler than that, right? After all, I had a scraper, a spray bottle full of water and big strong arms. What more could I need? The first strip came away from the wall without much effort. I found out later that was just to make me overconfident. The next million strips were microscopic. From then on, all I wanted was a start - just a little piece that I could get a hold of. Instead, I scraped and came away with tiny little bits of paper. I pressed harder and got nothing. Finally, I would get a purchase and carefully pull. The wall pulled back. I lost. At the end of three hours, I had made roughly three holes that did not have wallpaper under them. -Use the water.- Further instructions. Thanks a lot. I was too embarrassed, proud and stupid to ask if there was a better way. I was determined to do this myself. -After you get done in here, I want you to start on the stairway.- As though -when I get done in here- meant -sometime this week-. -OK,- I said. But it wasn't OK. Not even close. So I sprayed the water on the wall and started scraping. This time I came away with bits of paper just as tiny, only now they were wet…and stuck to everything. I had these microscopic pieces of failure all over my arms, my shoes, my shirt, and the floor. The wall just looked at me. Wallpaper laughed. I swear he did, I could hear him. My only bright spot came when I realized that there were two layers to Wallpaper. There was a very thin layer on the outside and a layer of yellow paper underneath. Quite by accident, I figured out that if I sprayed water on the underneath layer then let it dry, it loosened up enough that I could scrape of huge chunks of paper as big as two inches long. Thus, having new hope and energy, I began to systematically use this method. By lunch I had one small section of the wall almost halfway done. Once again, I heard Wallpaper laughing. My boss must have heard it too, because he just shook his head and walked away. I did not enjoy my lunch break that day. In fact, I was pretty sure I would be fired. I pondered what I was going to do for a job tomorrow. To my delight, or as delighted as I could be under the circumstances, I was assigned a helper after lunch. She introduced herself as Robyn. When I asked her if she had ever done this she replied, -yeah, lots of times.- My prayers had been answered. I explained how I had been tackling my job, as though I had actually made progress, then asked her, -Is there a better way to do this?- -Nope- she replied, beginning to scrape and spray and spray and scrape the opposite wall. -Just keep at it.- As the afternoon went on, I found out that Robyn was a nurse who had been laid off and was doing this because she had to do something to support her family. She was a single mother of two and lived not far from me in our little town. I also found out that I was becoming more and more attracted to her as we chattered. We talked about our kids, high school, relationships, everything. When quitting time came around, it was way too soon. I wanted to work some more. In fact, I suddenly loved this job. As we put our tools away, I glanced at the room Robyn and I had been working on and, to my astonishment, saw that all of the wallpaper was off of the wall. We had finished it. I learned a very valuable lesson about fighting Wallpaper that day: Never do it alone. In fact, if you can find a very attractive, intelligent, enjoyable person to be your partner, you're way ahead of the game. I also learned something from Robyn about Wallpaper and about life: It's not supposed to be easy, -just keep at it.- Article Source: http://www.saching.com About Author / Additional Info: Additional Articles: * The Pros and Cons of Indian Boarding schools - Education in India. * Pest prevention: How to keep pests and insects out from your house * The Classic MALL SIGHT Today ! * Buying laptops : Which laptop should I buy? * Care of a diabetic patient: Lifestyle modification and Medications Does this article violate or infringe on your copyright ? It is a violation of our terms for authors to submit content which they did not write and claim it as their own. If this article infringes on your copyrights, then use our Contact us form with the detailed proof of infringement along with the offending article's title, URL and writer name. If you do not hear back from us then contact us again in another 10 days. Thank you. Comments on this article: (0 comments so far) * Additional comments are now closed for this article *
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