Basically if you can't fight through a shower of puke, you were not ready.
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You need to prep your surface. Sand it so smooth you want to rub your face all over it, and that's how you get a finish that goes down proper and gleams like a mirror to blind everyone who comes upon it after.
Is it true that you when you were 14 you called your teacher a cootie-licker?