{"id":1579,"date":"2016-06-13T14:18:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T14:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2016-06-13T14:18:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T14:18:01","slug":"31-color-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/31-color-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"#31: Color Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/volvo-brown-w01077.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1580 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/volvo-brown-w01077-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"volvo-brown-w01077\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nMy brother Chris was driving a really nice Volvo that was only a couple of years old. The car had very low mileage and looked like new because he took great care of it, but he needed a pick-up truck for his work so he had to sell the car.<br \/>\nHe put the Volvo out in front of our house with a \u2018For Sale\u2019 sign on it and a nice couple, a husband and wife, stopped to look at it.<br \/>\nThey told my brother that their 16-year-old daughter just got her driver\u2019s license and they wanted to buy her first car as a gift, so they were looking for a reliable car that was also safe and Chris\u2019 car would be perfect for her.<br \/>\nThey gave my brother a deposit and told him that they would be back the next day with their teenage daughter to finalize the sale.<br \/>\nWhen my brother told me that he found a buyer for his car I thought to myself, \u201cWow, that teenager has really nice parents. That\u2019s a great car for a young kid who just got their license. I never had a car handed to me at that age. She\u2019s gonna be very appreciative.\u201d<br \/>\nThe following day, the parents brought their daughter with them to see the car and my brother told me that, when the teenager girl saw the car she burst into tears, threw a little tantrum, and between sobs whimpered, <em>\u201cI wanted a black car! I had my heart set on a black car. I hate it! It\u2019s not black.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nI guess the deal almost fell through and the girl wouldn\u2019t stop crying until her parents promised her that they would pay to have the car painted in whatever color she wanted.<br \/>\nMy brother just couldn\u2019t believe how spoiled kids are getting these days.<br \/>\nI know one thing\u2026 if that was my daughter and she pulled that stunt, I would have said to her\u2026<br \/>\n\u201cOhh, I\u2019m sorry\u2026 You don\u2019t want the free car that I\u2019m giving you because you don\u2019t like the color? That\u2019s tragic\u2026<br \/>\n\u201cBut I\u2019ll tell you what I\u2019m going to do for you. If you don\u2019t like the color of the car I\u2019m buying, I\u2019m going to give you some other color options that you can choose from\u2026<br \/>\n\u201cYou can take public transportation on the Green Line, the Red Line or the Orange Line\u2026 In fact, you can have all three of those colors!<br \/>\n\u201cAnd, if you don\u2019t like those colors, you can always pick a Yellow Cab or a silver bus&#8230; How do you like those for choices?\u201d<br \/>\nGiven that selection, I\u2019m sure any teenager would have a newfound appreciation for an almost-new Volvo with Twilight Bronze Metallic paint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,23,24,25,32,69,285,286,287],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-paul-dangelo","tag-dangelo","tag-comedy","tag-comedian","tag-comic","tag-paul-dangelo-paul-dangelo-comedy","tag-spoiled-kids","tag-new-car","tag-colors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p614ww-pt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}