Originally Posted by bearisgray

I once asked my sister what she would like for some event one year.

She said pillowcases. Okay, I can do pillowcases.

I asked her "What color?"

She said: "Light blue."

Okay - I asked her to send me some paint chips so I could get the right 'kind' of blue.

She said: "What's so hard about 'blue'?


Anyone else have this type of dialog? I was just trying to get a shade that would be compatible with what she had. I did not appreciate her apparent lack of cooperation.

PS - She has finally come around to realizing that there is more than one shade of any given color.