Flipping thru a LL Bean catalogue (deciding whether to keep or throw) and remembered a conversation last year around Christmas or Fathers Day. Mom and I shop LL Bean when buying for dad for the free shipping, and there is one catalogue where they offer radical great deals before the holidays. Mom had ordered dad some clothes and they were all shades of brown. Earlier in the year, I had asked dad what his favorite color was. He said navy blue and light blue were his favorites. He has this one shirt that he found after the house fire to wear at the Dollar Store, that Sista absolutely hates! Its a Bugle Boy sweat shirt and it is light blue. He wore it every chance he could. It has Bugle Boy on the front. I think Sista does not like it because she does not think Bugle Boy written across his chest is age appropriate. But its blue. This one particular occasion, I guess he made up his mind to make a stand! "These are all brown, or different shades of brown. I don't like brown and I don't like Khaki, I like blue, navy blue and light blue. Why can't you buy me some blues?" Of course I was cracking up, because mom was so shocked that he had a preference of any kind, because he had never been really vocal about it before. I remember telling him, when asking what color t-shirt he wanted for his birthday, (which is another issue Sista and mom have, I keeping buying him his favorites, T-shirts with cool logos) "Dad, if you prefer blue, then tell people blue is your color!" "Its not that difficult to find what you like in blue." So essentially, I was responsible for the little outburst that liberated my dad from browns and khakis last year. In flipping thru the LL Bean catalogue, I found a light blue sweatshirt with LL Bean written across the front for dad for Christmas! I guess since I started my dad's liberation, I'll make peace with the heads of state and replace the Bugle Boy sweatshirt with the LL Bean sweatshirt! Light blue of course! LOL
