the walls are closing in on me

Alright, so here is the spray booth at work. Spray towards the back wall and a large exhaust fan handles all of your over spray. Well. Most of it. Those big pieces of paper used to be taped to the walls. They catch the over spray that hits the walls to avoid some nasty build-up from forming. Well what did they do before they put the paper up? Nothing. Which is why I spent a few hours on May 13 getting personal with a razor blade and a brillo pad. Luckily for me, over spray doesn't stick exceptionally well to galvanized steel, you just need enough elbow grease.

Now that the booth is nice and clean what do you do? Well you put up another over spray barrier to make sure that next summer's intern doesn't have to do the same thing you did. Enter: a very big roll of saran wrap. It's special stuff for this purpose specifically, but that's essentially what it is. A very large roll 36" wide of plastic cling wrap. So you pull off enough to get it to stick to the wall, wipe it down with a squeegee to make sure it sticks, then unroll enough to run the length of the wall, then trim it off. But what would you use to trim this off? Surely not the razor blade you've been using the whole day. Only a fool and a communist would do that. There is a specially branded tool for this job, and this job alone.

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But here is the interesting part. This 'tool' is completely unheard of here. Nobody has seen this before. Due to a declining birthrate, the average Canadian household probably has more of these than they have children. But in Wisconsin, all their milk comes in HDPE jugs. The idea of milk in a bag seems absurd. The ubiquity of this little gadget in Canada is akin to the vegetable peeler, or the ice cream scoop. To have it relegated to such obscure applications as the spray booth saran wrap trimmer seems almost criminal.