The curmudgeon has considerable experience painting things: boats, houses, more boats, buoys, and did I mention boats? Lots of them, lots of times (read: every spring). And hated every minute of it. I had no idea that when I got married, I married a painter. My sainted wife LOVES to paint. What a deal!
This is when I was shown a fact of life that I had been blessedly ignorant of: white is not always white. Despite painting white boats white (did I mention over and over again?), I had never been privy to decorator's evil plot that white isn't merely white. When my wife brought home a paint mysteriously labelled "OW-6", I assumed it was some secret trim paint formula. Not so! It actually stood for "Off White #6". They were numbered! There could be thousands!
I reeled.
Today, the whites don't scare me as much. But I need to double-check just what white I've been using on the boats all these years. I need to know that it's just plain ole' white - no number.
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