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The Mundanity of Evil

I found nothing to disagree with this posting about Evil Doings for Dummies. 25 years ago, when my parents bought the house I’m living in, the living room and dining room had this awful dingy stained white flocked wallpaper on the walls. My parents, understandably, didn’t want to keep it. And that’s when we discovered that the former owners of the house didn’t bother to size the walls before gluing that fugly wallpaper. My Dad, being no dummy, gave me the job of patching and sanding the walls. Masks apparently hadn’t been invented yet back then, so I didn’t wear one. I sneezed white for three days after sanding down those two rooms. And yes, the former owners of the house, the ones who put up that wallpaper, hold a special place in my personal list of those destined for punishment in the afterlife.

There is one wall left in this house, which I now own with my wife, that has wallpaper orignally installed by those owners. And knowing what I know, I’ve found another solution.

Paneling.

Damned if I’m going through that again. Once we get the floor refinished in that room, the ugliest wallpaper in the world is going to disappear behind paneling. Hopefully no future owner of this house will ever discover it and get trapped into the evil that is wallpaper glued to unsized drywall. (Found via Ben Hammersley’s Dangerous Precedent.)

Posted at 9:33 PM