As I was driving out of the shopping centre car park on Friday I noticed the colour of the colour of the car in front of me - pea green. It was fairly new and it looked immaculate, clearly it was well looked after, but one nagging thought wouldn't go away - who would choose to buy a pea green car? Even if the present owner didn't buy it from new, someone must have done. I find it hard to believe that anyone would decide to spend such a large sum of money on a car and then insist that it absolutely had to be pea green and nothing else would do! It is a very suitable colour - for peas, but I am only aware of one couple who selected that colour for a mode of transport, and the owl and the pussycat were such an ill matched pair that nobody would have noticed their boat.
Perhaps the car was bought by an exhibitionist who would do anything to get noticed, but even that is a bit of a stretch of the imagination. Even an exhibitionist would not choose such a diabolical colour for a car. Imagine the marketing strategy, did they offer a substantial discount on the purchase price in order to make pea green the 'new black', or were they aiming specifically at the colour-blind market? Oh well, I guess I will never know, it is just one of life's unsolved mysteries.
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