One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for July 26, 2020

Great, now Joe thinks I’m unmanly because I like that blue.

We’re lucky to not be stuck with Henry Ford’s idea of the right color for all cars…

Dark steel blue

The kids in the back seat are every child, ever. “She’s looking out my window.” “Make him stop humming.” “She won’t let me have the book.” And then there’s “Are we there yet?” and “I have to go to the potty.” Ah, yes. Soooo much fun!

How hard does he have to wink at his wife for her get it, sheesh. Being a pilot and airshow fan, shy-blue is my favorite color.

True story: one of the jobs I applied for sent me a form to fill out, asking among other things “what wave lengths of light have you worked with and which is your favorite?”. The last part of the question made me laugh because it was just a fancy way of asking my favorite color. My answer was “460nm, the blue of the sky outside my window”.

Time to turn in your testosterone and move up to a “salmon” mini-van, dude.

Don’t get your panties in a knot, Frank.

Totally wrong direction from the get-go. …"Well son, Austin’s dad isn’t secure enough in his manhood to risk things like “Cobalt blue”. I think Austin’s dad plays for both teams, that’s all I’m sayin’."

Yeah, tell the kid that. He will appreciate the honesty, until it gets back around to Austin’s dad, that is.

I had a sky blue Toyota Corolla back in the ’80’s. It was actually a fairly popular color back then.

Like that last panel, as the car disappears against the background.

I went shopping for an SUV. I wanted the in-dash navigation system, and that only came on the top of the line model. They only had a couple of those in stock. The salesman said “One of them came off the truck with a small scratch on the driver’s side mirror. I can get you a deal if you take it like that so we don’t have to fix it.” I didn’t care, so I looked at it. The damage wasn’t bad, but the SUV was robin’s egg blue. I said :Sorry, I’m not driving a car that’s that color." We test drove a black one and I said I’d take it. We’re writing up the paperwork, and I said “This is the black one, right.” The salesman just ripped up the paperwork. He was still trying to get me to take the blue one!

AIR FORCE Blue!

Why is he worried about what some kid’s clown father said?

Colors have gender preferences?

My mom had a 1967 station wagon like the one in this picture:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/1967_Ford_Country_Sedan_station_wagon_%288451923592%29.jpg/800px-1967_Ford_Country_Sedan_station_wagon_%288451923592%29.jpg

I don’t know what you call that color, but I like it and wouldn’t mind having a car that color today (If I could afford to have a car).

I call this one, Blue Steel! (strikes a pose)

It’s the sky that’s silver blue!

One color of car never have again, we finally sold it after 20 years, red outside, and dark inside of black, only season decent was winter, otherwise like a boiler inside, then what was my mom’s silver Olds Achieve, which we really sold at a loss, was close to 30 years and needed work. Dad your car has a lighter color of blue. The car we replaced is metallic color of blue outside and inside, not as hot as the red car.

Frank must have worked at Sherwin-Williams when he was younger….

We always called it “Ridenour blue” because it seemed for a long time that every car we or my dad’s parents owned was light blue.