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100 words, 100 days, day ninety- five.
How much!
Premier League sides are offering players contracts in the £100,000 per week range.
Decisions, decisions life is jam packed full with decisions. Will I go to watch the football, spend the money I haven’t got, to pay the players who are obscenely rich more so than any fat cat businessman or will I stay in and watch paint dry?
Watching paint dry isn’t as boring as you would imagine. It’s not just the watching, it’s the sitting still and the sublime silence. The understated expectation that it will soon be dry and I can say, yes, I was there and saw it first.
It’s easier to talk about the football, watching paint dry isn’t much of a conversation starter but for those who are in the know, it’s like describing a silent perfection. The evidence of time passing has a litmus test and that test is called watching paint drying, or WPD for short.
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