A great aussie expression and a weird but wonderful story:
A costly workplace blunder has turned into a brush with fame for a Brendale painter.
When Clayton Coughlan of Wet Paint-ting at Brendale was contracted to paint a house on the other side of town, he did not think twice about sending his third year apprentice to the job.
“He was two days into the job when the owners came back from holiday and it turned out he was painting the wrong house,’’ Mr Coughlan said.
But the blunder turned into a boon when Mr Coughlan won a radio competition which had music legend Paul Kelly turn up at his Brendale business on Tuesday to perform a set, including his song “Dumb Things”.
The then 21-year-old apprentice Kyle Walters said he was horrified when the error was discovered.
“I was crapping my daks … I thought I was going to get fired,” he said.
