Tryst With Destiny

She was aghast and showed me a bottle asking me "what colour it was'? "Blue", I answered. "No" came the reply. "Its Turquoise. She had left me speechless. I didn't know what Turquoise was. If I can add most men don't. Men are just not programmed to handle the colours at the same level of discreetness as ladies are.

Why i write of it because due to some unfathomable reasoning the fairer sex expects us to understand the colours as well as they do. If I talk about Project Hackintosh, Quickpath, Nehalem or even something as common as iPhone I am labelled as a geek, a showoff or even a bore but if they talk about beige, azure or Burgundy I am supposed to understand. They will just ignore the fact that I cannot decipher what colour they are supposed to be talking about.

Today I went shopping with one of my friend (aha shopping: will lament about the utility of it someday later ). Coming back to the point she showed me a top. I told her she already had a green top and probably needed something different. "Its not green its turkish green" promptly came the reply. It didn't stop there. The usual banter about me being so lame followed. Me lame!! I call people who can't tell the difference between a 3NF and BCNF lame. Yet I kept quite(Over the years I have learned that letting the fairer sex have fun at your expense is often the best way to get close to them). And away she went laughing away.

Rest of the evening was fantastic. It usually is if she is in good humour but I kept wondering why is it that women don't understand that men don't understand colours?