Drabble by Kevin Fagan for February 11, 2016

Beige, kind of a dirty white.

Thank goodness I have adult daughters who drag me out of my beige world of painting. @Pacopuddy 50 shades if beige Funny!

it looks to me that they have magic paint already. Their walls changed from orange to purple to yellow all within one minute!

Like I said. Dirt coloured. Offers no emotional context and never needs cleaning.

I like the walls you have now. In three panels the go from Orange to Mauve, to yellow. Never tiring same color

One of my neighbors has deep red walls. I could never be that adventurous even though they look nice. Mine are white now but I’d love to change to an aqua.

I painted a nice color that I created. (Mixed together different colors until I found what I wanted.) Sort of a clay color, but a little lighter. Not too dark, not too light. Still neutral so I can use whatever colors I want to use in my decor. Thankfully, the paint stores now have machines that can analyze a sample to match it. Their match was pretty close, but I had to stop my created color at a corner, so that you can’t tell they aren’t quite identical. It was much easier than looking at hundreds of their paint chips, especially for someone with artistic abilities.

I still have flashbacks of people asking for specific colors for their houses! Oh the horror!

Someone told me that all-white/ivory/creme interiors will slowly over a long period of time drive one nuts..

“Green side up!”.(You can Google the joke, but I wonder why I only find it as a “blond” joke. Long before “blond” jokes became popular I heard it from a Norwegian friend, and the punchline said “Swedes”, not “blonds”.)