“Why don’t you ever learn!”, would be a familiar phrase to me as a child as I could never resist the temptation to touch wet paint just to see if it was wet or not. Of course it was wet, but why didn’t I believe it? Every time I’d touch it I’d get a small dot of white gloss on my index finger and then feel bad that I continued to ignore warnings about it being wet.
I’d have to get a bit of paint thinners, turpentine or some other chemical that I really don’t think was doing my skin much good in order to remove this visible symbol of my continuing lack of judgment. Now many decades on have I learned my lesson? Yes, but only just. Even now the temptation to ignore wet paint warnings is very strong.
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