The Color Purple

I guess I will go first. This is posted on my personal blog as well, but it is one of my favorites.
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When I was a teen, I was working as a cashier at Jack & Jill’s (a grocery store). Since it was a small grocery store, it attracted many elderly customers.

During my three years of employment there, I noticed something about our elderly clientele. The ladies had a penchant for wearing purple clothing. Well, heavily-applied/dark makeup too, but in particular, they liked to wear lots of purple.

One evening, I was commenting on this old lady purple outfit phenomenon to my sisters. I went on and on about how it seemed like every elderly lady would wear purple. Unbeknownst to myself, my mother was around the corner in an adjoining room and overheard the entire conversation. She was wearing all purple: a purple sweatshirt and purple sweatpants.

I found out later that she immediately got up, changed clothes, threw the purple sweatsuit away, and hasn’t worn purple since.