Naked and bent over Aunt Pearl’s knee for a hairbrushing was not what I’d had in mind when I found the paint in the shed behind her house. Somehow, I got carried away with opening cans and trying out the colours, not knowing I was also doing her car, some furniture and the floor of the shed damage. I often did things without thinking or watching what I was doing.
When I came back into the kitchen where mom and Aunt Pearl were having coffee, they both noticed the paint on me.