New Bern, NC
Reader brigantine posted a charming comment to yesterday's blog, Heirlooms On Board. His experience was amazingly similar to mine. The engineer in me wants to think that an artifact like a toolbox or a thermos is functional; a left brain activity. But emotional attachment is a right brain activity, so that factors like color play a vital role. See below.
Brigantine comments: I have a toolbox that my dad had when I was growing up. When I was 18 I bought a set of tools and it came with a massive four drawer toolbox that was much too big for carrying in my Pinto. So, I traded it to my dad for his toolbox.
It was red and a few yrs ago, it was starting to show its age and rusting a bit, so I painted it with some black Rustoleum I had. That was much too dark, so I spritzed some White on it in random over-spray type spurts. It's okay now and I preserved the box before it got too far gone. But, when I look at it, I still see the bright red toolbox of my childhood.
Imagine my chidren's confusion when I tell them to get something out of the red toolbox and they go to the big craftsman four drawer unit that I now have back from Dad and I say, "No, not that red one, the other one" as I point to the black and white box...
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Just more proof that dad's a "little off." LOL
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