Ken
Has never been a go-getter in life but he works on a building site so hes fairly handy with DIY (long as he's supervised with power tools). When he shifted into his flat i offered to help if he needed any assistance with decorating, stating only beers for sustinance would be necessary for my involvement.

One saturday (about 2005ish) during some beers I remarked his stairs still werent done and said if he wanted to score a few points with the missus i'd give him a hand. The next day we set to with steamers and scrapers and proceeded to strip 50 year old wallpaper off the walls. We were both fairly hungover and the heat from the steamers meant we had to keep taking breaks. After several hours we had get into a decent routine and was making (slow but sure) headway through the nightmarish layers of wallpaper.

Ken was up the stepladders doing the higher parts while i was lower down plodding on, but ken seemed to be suffering a lot more than me and we naturally blamed it on the beer. I stood up to stretch a little and i saw ken looking a bit funny, he then kinda did a bruce grobbelaar wobbly legs thing and crumpled off the stepladders and i kinda half broke his fall.

We decided enough was enough and a few cans were needed to "rehydrate" after such a near death experience. The colour came back to his face and we decided to watch the match that was on the telly.

Kens missus came home from work a few hours later and instead of coming home to a lovely surprise of a fully stripped stairway, ready to decorate; she found a stairway full of manky old yellowing wallpaper, 2 mangled steamers, a collapsed set of stepladders and a dirty big lead pipe hanging from the ceiling that we'd tried to rip out. Proceeding into the sitting room to find 2 dusty, dirty, beer soaked idiots playing PES was in hindsight not the surprise we had planned......

We explained kens funny turn to which instead of sympathy his missus asked "well didnt you have a window open", our bemusement confirmed our stupidity and explained why ken seemed to suffer more. Heat rises you see and apparently, steam has hot in it :-O


Ken texted last week saying he'd finally finished the stairs and im going round tonight with my missus to see them (ken and his missus not the stairs), think i might regale them all in the tale of how it all came together
(Monkeystrumpet monkey. Monkey, MONKEY!!!, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 10:18, 2 replies)

have a click
For making me laugh a piece of an M&M up my nose.
(CactusZack Shaved his coin purse on, Sat 5 Dec 2009, 20:05, closed)

Thanks
it was all worth the effort now :-) haha
(Monkeystrumpet monkey. Monkey, MONKEY!!!, Mon 7 Dec 2009, 10:21, closed)