Posted on 12/08/2020 9:42:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
An Illinois artist was left baffled after a man paid him to paint a mural of “Sesame Street’s” Cookie Monster on the side of a building — that he didn’t actually own.
Joshua Hawkins said he recently got an angry phone call from the actual owner of the Peoria building, “asking why the hell I painted this ‘crazy ****’ on his building.”
“Evidently the guy that hired me to paint the mural was NOT really the owner of the building!,” Hawkins wrote on Facebook. The artist said a man he knew only as “Nate” called him the day after Thanksgiving and asked him to paint a mural of the beloved puppet with a caption in Russian that roughly translates to “World, Peace, Cookies” on the side of his vacant building.
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Kinda reminds me of something that happened to a friend of mine. He worked for a tool and die shop. The owner paid him to repaint the building exterior one weekend. I drove by and stopped in to say hi while he was working.
I said “Why are you painting it pink Dave?”
He said “it’s not pink, it’s tan.”
“Nope. it’s pink.”
The paint store mis-tinted the paint for a guy who was color blind.
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