Reddit truly asks the best questions.
From debating which American cities are ugliest to asking what part of the human body is the weirdest , Reddit is the gift that keeps on giving.
Someone on Reddit recently asked Home Depot employees the weirdest thing they’ve ever color matched is, and the answers were hilarious.
1. Well, what time of day did she want?
“My wife worked at Lowe’s and had a lady come in asking for the color of the sky. My wife told her to look at the samples and pic a color and she’d mix it up. The lady said ‘No I want the actual color of the sky’ like she wanted her wall to look like the inside of a Vegas casino.”
2. This is genuinely cool.
“[…] someone came into ask if I’d be able to match the spinach dip that Tostitos was about to roll out. He wanted undercooked, perfectly cooked, and over cooked matched so that they could paint the inside of jars to show the manufacturing teams what each looked like as it all was made.”
3. I can’t imagine wanting a house painted like your own skin.
“[…] a woman came in looking for a paint color that would match her skin so I thought, “[expletive] it, let’s match her arm and see what happens”. She loved it so much she ordered it for her whole house. i named that color ‘Susan’s arm’.”
4. She’s just a huge Andy Warhol fan, clearly.
“My mom took a can of Campbell’s soups to Home Depot to get a color match for the red part. She then painted the kitchen, which was full of Campbell’s soup tchotchkes, Campbell’s soup red,” TGSwithtraceyjordan revealed .
5. Color matching…dirt?
“older lady comes in with a ziploc bag full of dirt […] She has a walkway, and when it rains some of the dirt from her flowerbed runs on to the walkway,” cptpedantic began.
This lady might be a genius.
“[S]he wants to paint the walk way the same color as the dirt so it isn’t as noticeable. […] Ok. So i asked her if she wanted the paint to match the color of the dirt when it was wet or dry. Blew her mind”
6. I understand this one, tbh.
“Spent more than a decade working at a paint store and buy far the weirdest thing I had to match was the toe beans of the customers cat,” Nick__Jackolson began.
She brought her cat for reference.
“At this point she was holding her cat, and it was content enough in its owners arms. This customer wanted a precise match using the color spectrometer though, and handed the cat over to me. The feline was not happy.”
7. So, emerald?
“Somebody brought in a bar of soap for me to match. I think it was Irish spring.”
I get it. That’s actually a really nice color. I bet it would have been easily googled, though.
8. Not gonna lie, this one is pretty sweet.
“He wanted to paint something the color of her eyes, so he brought in a close-up photo of her. It was difficult because an iris isn’t just one solid colour, but it was fun and he left happy with this kind of smoky blue.”
9. Nothing like color matching a whole child.
“A mum came in with her daughter in a swimming costume and plonked her up on the counter and I colour matched the bum of her swimmers which were a bright blue that were apparently her school colours.”
Why not just bring in the suit?
10. Well, that’s a choice.
“I used to work at a sex shop. We took a dancer thong into a place to color match the shade of pink for paint for the inside of our store. They ended up naming the color Booty Pants.”
I would absolutely use a color called “Booty Pants.”
11. People really like bringing animals in to get paint matched.
“Lady in front was complaining bc the green she ended up with didn’t have the ‘speckle’ she whips out a chameleon, photo of I presume the same chameleon, and is trying to tell the young lady that the colour they made for her was so flat.”
You can’t just clone texture.
“Lady kept asking why the paint didn’t have the speckle like the photo and animal. Stood there patiently and watched the staff try and explain what dimensions are, how you can’t match gradient, patterns etc with one shade of paint.”