Why do they do it ?

[Cuchilo]

Why do people feel the need to rub thier hands over new paint or varnish only to find out it is wet ? It looks wet because it is wet and i am standing next to it with a paint brush in my hand ! Ever bloody day someone walks into my garden and bloody touches my work ! Do i go into thier garden and start touching thier cars ..... Maybe i should , that would be funny :D

[Salty Sailor]

Does anybody know how to remove varnish from your hands..:D

Must be a nice finish. Thats what brings the busy bees to the honey..

[Cuchilo]

Cut them off so they dont touch my boat again :mad:

[Duncan Gibbs]

Try some form of signage: "Wet Varnish! If you touch it I will invoke sharia law!"

[Captain Blight]

Punch 'em in the throat.

[kc8pql]

How about saying something like "Don't touch it. The paint's wet." I've found that to be very effective.

[SchoonerRat]

Well placed arrows should do the trick, provided you can find some you like.:D

[Captain Blight]

How about saying something like "Don't touch it. The paint's wet." I've found that to be very effective.Absent a throat-punch, this might work too.

[Cuchilo]

Ive tried "the paints wet ". One guy licked his finger and touched it and another just ignored me and touched it about five mins after i told him . Maybe they thought i was telling fibbs :rolleyes:

[pipefitter]

You wouldn't believe how many people will try to pick up what I have just welded. It sets them up for some "here's your sign" jokes. "OOooooowie, thats hot! Nawwww, youre hands are just really really cold. . .here's your sign"
It seems like a behavior that proves that humans evolved from apes.

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

Make a small piece of test timber - Mark it Test for Wet.

Apply superglue as soon as a numpty hoves into view.

[Wild Wassa]

Obviously you dudes aren't professional bateau marins.

Letting the owner's wife touch the boat with her greasy hand lotioned fingers, guarantees at least an extra three days work ... when opportunity knocks, I don't complain about the noise.

... and I always ask the owners, "Who is paying for this paint job?" ... it tends to be the hand lotion wearer in the family? That is the real deal Sportsmen. So I let her have a good feel of the week's fairing and painting when she visits.

I finished a job on Friday and the owner said to me, on Sunday morning, "There are five bubbles in the paint." I asked him if the bubbles corresponded to his wife's spread of her greasy fingertips, done when she visited. I told him about contamination of surfaces, and stressed it to him every day last week, when he worked along side me, that contamination costs money ... it wasn't up to me to correct the restoration fee paying member of his family from touching his boat.

Call me a sexist, the title fits me very well most days ... because I know what the owner's wives are like when they visit, after having painted dozens of boats, not just said after one wife's visit. The wives are the real boat experts, I'm just their day labourer (I don't even bother anymore standing ground) and become the novice boat painter around them ... ask any professionnel bateau marin what happens, when the owner's wife visits?

Count their finger tips ... in your paint job. Call each fingertip $200 ... if not $300.

Warren.

[Steve Lansdowne]

Add a 'touching piece' of wood that is not part of the boat but is adjacent to your new varnish. Post a sign saying "If you feel the need to touch, tell me and I'll varnish this piece so you can see what wet varnish feels like!"

[David W Pratt]

Believe Mark Twain commented that a man will believe it if you tell him the stars a millions of miles away, but if you tell him the paint is wet, he has to touch it.