Yesterday an interesting little bit of trivia happened to me. As I was cooking dinner there was a knock on my apartment-door. Outside was an unfamiliar man, but he presented himself as my upstairs neighbor and informed me that their daughter had accidentally managed to drop some yellow doodad on my balcony, and could she have it back?
I confirmed that such a thingamabobber had indeed fallen on my balcony the previous day, but it was not yellow in color – it was purple. Yeah sure, that’s the one! Smiles all around as I quickly venture into my living room to fetch the aforementioned dohicky and return it to Daddy.
Funny though, because the doodad in question turned out to be teal in color. Neither yellow nor purple.
It’s interesting how poorly the brain seemingly remembers the color of things. This is not the first time that I’ve been mistaken about the color of some item. Interesting that we both completely mistook the color of this plastic thingamajig.