just how much velocity can be reached by two 5-gallon buckets of good, heavy paint when gently nudged off of the very top rack (almost 20 feet) at Lowe's?

Let me tell you -- a WHOLE LOT of velocity! Enough to explode the buckets and send paint up over the racks and thru the stocked shelves across the next aisle and halfway up those shelves. Yep, it happened yesterday and since I am in the paint dept (I was on break when it happend - I had nothing to do with it) I got to help clean it up. We are still cleaning and will be for a couple more days. My zone Mgr. calls me Cinderella cause I spend so much time on my hands and knees cleaning up other peoples' paint spills. So, that's what I do at my job

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