There is no pic for this entry- if I were to shoot a picture of a gray wall, I am not sure it would add any value. Back in the states, I painted a few walls what was called, as all paint lines have their own unique names for every shade – thank you Crayola, “dolphin fin.” This transposed itself after several conversations to “dolphin butt,” so from there on out, we referred to it as such. One day a friend came over, really liked the color and asked what it was, this friend wanted to possible paint a wall in their house the same color. Given we referred to it as dolphin butt, we later heard that friend went to the paint store and asked for it by name. I can only imagine what the salesperson was thinking about our creative nickname or the guy seeking the paint! I laughed again when I thought about this, because I am confident I have made several mistakes of the same caliber since moving to Turkey. When a particular one comes to mind, I promise to make an entry about it. Perhaps, my reaction to the word for vacuum cleaner in Turkish or one of the many assumptions I make for lack of full understanding of what is spoken. Stay tuned. Anyhow, I have taken it upon myself to paint two walls in the apartment and one of them was gray, the other yellow.

10/20/2011 01:00:41 am

we just painted our kitchen gray with one yellow wall!

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