My home office is in my daughter’s old room. It’s not the greatest location. One of the walls was a dark red color (not too bad), but in front of it was a pink bookcase, which I didn’t like. And the light was behind me, which wasn’t good for zoom calls.
This weekend I moved the light. That messed up the wall, so I had to spackle and re-paint. I also painted the bookcase. The wall went from dark red to green.
It occurred to me that switching from red to green was an opportunity. I was hoping someone would ask me about the change. I was going to pretend nothing had changed and ask if they were red-green colorblind, or maybe their monitor was having a color problem.
Nobody asked. 🙁
It could be because that Thunberg finally convinced you to go green, but it could also because of your support for Greene. Then again, sometimes a color is just a color.
Very loosely related, but I still remember once at university when I saw a friend getting into a crowded elevator when I was entering the building. He noticed me too, we nodded at each other, and I figured out what to do when the elevator doors closed.
I ran up the five sets of stairs as fast as I possibly could, knowing that (1) the elevator wasn’t too fast, and (2) it was a good bet that they’d have to stop at least once. I managed to make it to the top floor just as he was walking out.
He saw me, we nodded, and then it hit him that he had just done that a few seconds ago.
The memory of the look on his face when he figured out what I must have done, and that I’d done it just to see that look, and that he’d played right into it, has made me smile for decades.
Funny. And he didn’t notice that you were out of breath? 🙂
I did something similar once. Only I had a replica of myself placed on the upper floor.
🙂