I remember a christmas long ago when I was small..

My dad had recently painted the dustbin pea green, he asked me if I liked the colour and to be polite I had said "yes".

my elder brother had wanted a new bike for christmas and because dad was short of money he was offered a childs desk and chair from my aunty as my cousin didn't want it anymore for me. In order to spruce it up a bit he painted it with the pea green paint he had just bought.

On christmas day my brother got his new bike and I got the pea green desk and chair. I was upset that the desk was the same colour as the dustbin, but thought Santa must have a lot of pea green paint too.

I found out years later that my dad had carried the desk and chair from my aunties three miles on his back for me. I wished I had never complained about the colour.