# Today I was a Blue Man
**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/today-i-was-a-blue-man/799
**Category:** non-D
**Created:** [May 8, 2017, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/today-i-was-a-blue-man/799 "2017-05-08T22:15:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/today-i-was-a-blue-man/799/1 "2017-05-08T22:15:11Z")
No, not a Blue Man like this:
[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Blue\_Man4\_%28SP%29\_2009\_Brazil.JPG](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Blue_Man4_%28SP%29_2009_Brazil.JPG)
But a Blue man like this:
[http://www.thegoldenscope.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Photo068.jpg](http://www.thegoldenscope.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Photo068.jpg)
Well, OK, maybe like this:
[https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/21/ca/67/tuareg-tour-guide-on.jpg](https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/21/ca/67/tuareg-tour-guide-on.jpg)
This is what happened. I was spraying, as I do everyday, for garlic mustard. I have a bit of land so it is easy to either miss some or to spray it many times. So I use a blue dye and a spreader-sticker on top of the weedkiller.
I broke my hose handle, went away to replace it, and did not notice that I had not screwed down the top of the spray tank. An hour later, I realized that the tank had been steadily dripping on me, and that the back of my body was blue from head to toe!
I freaked out a bit (not because of the dye, but because of the weedkiller), tossed my spray clothes into a bunch of cold water, and jumped into the shower, where I spent 30 minutes scrubbing every bit of my skin as hard as I could with a rough brush.
So now I am not a Blue Man any more. Instead, I am
[https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3512/3992105972\_0af072819a\_b.jpg](https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3512/3992105972_0af072819a_b.jpg)
A Red Man.
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### Author:  [@docslotnick](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/docslotnick)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 10:17pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/today-i-was-a-blue-man/799/2 "2017-05-08T22:17:36Z")
Better Red than Dead!
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 10:18pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/today-i-was-a-blue-man/799/3 "2017-05-08T22:18:37Z")
> [@docslotnick](#):
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> Better Red than Dead!
Very appropriate 🙂