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I feel much the same way about tile samples.
posted by jacquilynne at 5:39 PM on July 21, 2017 [5 favorites]


Had to do a double take at first, because my discovery of paint chips as a kid was not nearly so joyful. But then I watched it and it warmed my cynical heart, and also I learned that's what those things are called, so thank you.
posted by Two unicycles and some duct tape at 5:43 PM on July 21, 2017


Can I borrow him? Because I'm finding picking out paint colors to be really stressful and am about 30 seconds away from painting the whole house Edgecomb Gray, and a happy baby might make me less irked about the whole process.
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 5:59 PM on July 21, 2017 [12 favorites]


His mother named him after Brock Samson. No reason, why do you ask?
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 6:10 PM on July 21, 2017 [2 favorites]


I think Sherwin Williams just found their new ad campaign.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 6:37 PM on July 21, 2017 [11 favorites]


That was friggin great, and the next vid that played for me was this shopping trip, and I must admit I try to be goofy when I shop but this fellow really shops goofy.
posted by vrakatar at 6:44 PM on July 21, 2017 [3 favorites]


Our daughter use to love going to Home Depot for the same exact reason - the back seat of our car wound up full of those paint-chip cards.
posted by adamg at 6:47 PM on July 21, 2017 [2 favorites]


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posted by idiopath at 6:50 PM on July 21, 2017 [1 favorite]


That is totally me. From his age right up to my current frightingly large number. :D
posted by Celsius1414 at 7:01 PM on July 21, 2017 [2 favorites]


Too pure for this world
posted by Hermione Granger at 7:18 PM on July 21, 2017 [4 favorites]


Also I have the same reaction to cats, dogs, and office supplies
posted by Hermione Granger at 7:19 PM on July 21, 2017 [19 favorites]


Can I borrow him? Because I'm finding picking out paint colors to be really stressful

I'm not sure if that would work the way you hope. That baby isn't very choosy; he seems equally happy with pretty much every color. I think having him along would do the opposite of simplifying the selection process.
posted by Greg_Ace at 7:55 PM on July 21, 2017 [2 favorites]


I'm having flashbacks to trying to shop with my children when they were little and having them hand me random things whenever they got within reach of the merchandise. I remember the produce section being especially challenging.
posted by bibliowench at 8:15 PM on July 21, 2017 [2 favorites]


and office supplies

It's not just me?

Seriously, that joy in all those colors. I'm beginning to wonder if it's a biological response. I wonder if crayons will do the same thing for him (hope so and want that video right now; kthx).
posted by datawrangler at 8:28 PM on July 21, 2017 [8 favorites]


Awww, babies are so great because they love the stupidest stuff!
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 8:42 PM on July 21, 2017 [9 favorites]


I wish I could be that happy
posted by GuyZero at 9:24 PM on July 21, 2017 [6 favorites]


Too pure for this world

He's totally playing it up for his parents. I think the first reaction, or maybe the one before they started filming, was legit. But then he saw how much it made his parents laugh, so he kept doing it.

My comment isn't meant to take anything away from the video, though. On the contrary, I remember when my kid used to do things like that just to delight me. Good times.
posted by gurple at 10:06 PM on July 21, 2017 [16 favorites]


Oh. It wasn't wall candy after all. Cute expressions though.
posted by happyroach at 10:52 PM on July 21, 2017 [1 favorite]


There's something really joyful about all those colors. When I worked at a hardware store I loved working in the paint aisle.
posted by runcibleshaw at 11:24 PM on July 21, 2017 [1 favorite]


No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 11:42 PM on July 21, 2017 [3 favorites]


awww, the neural network is simulating faces!
posted by a robot made out of meat at 8:21 AM on July 22, 2017 [2 favorites]


I'm not sure if that would work the way you hope. That baby isn't very choosy; he seems equally happy with pretty much every color. I think having him along would do the opposite of simplifying the selection process.
I'm not expecting the baby to help me pick the colors. I'm just hoping his joy could offset some of my anxiety.

(I actually think that it's only partly the colors. Babies, in my experience, really love repetition games, and one of the best repetition games is when they hand you something from a pile of somethings, you make a surprised face and say "thank you!" in an exaggerated fashion, and then you put the thing back in the pile so they can hand it to you again. One of my nephews could play that game for about twenty minutes when he was a tiny little toddler just learning to walk. I think this is a variation on that game.)
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 8:30 AM on July 22, 2017 [12 favorites]


See, now, that is a cute baby, barely creepy at all. I like that baby.
posted by WalkerWestridge at 10:18 AM on July 22, 2017 [5 favorites]


and office supplies

It's not just me?


Not just you.
posted by flyingsquirrel at 10:47 AM on July 22, 2017 [6 favorites]


Thank you. I needed that today.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 5:26 PM on July 22, 2017 [1 favorite]


Yeah, I just made that trip with a surly 14 year old. His color choices ranged from, Meh to whatever, are we done here. This made me remember when he giggled at all the things, just so I would laugh along with him.

That's it, he doesn't know it, but surly teenager is about to get a raspberry blown on his tummy. Here, hold my wine.
posted by SecretAgentSockpuppet at 3:47 PM on July 23, 2017 [1 favorite]


I love colour the way a foodie loves food, so the paint chip display at Home Depot is also a happy place for me. Just a week ago I spent several hours deciding on the perfect shades of pale peach and dark brown for my bedroom refresh. Of course, as one gets older one becomes socialized to be less expressive of such delight and more impacted by the opinions of others.

One night in March 2012, I was buying paint samples at Home Depot. I was standing at the paint counter, wearing my spring green parka with a dark teal hoodie underneath (both thrift shop purchases) and my red hair was probably in some state of disarray given that I'd been out in the rain (not that I'm ever all that smartly coiffed, admittedly). Next to me stood a pair of chic urbanites, both sporting sleek black hair and black wool pea coats. The woman was holding a sheaf of paint chips, all in a daring range of shades of gray.

The Home Depot employee brought over my samples in their little plastic jars, unscrewed the lids, and announced, "Teal Zeal... and... Asparagus." Both of those colours look exactly as you'd expect given their names. The black pea-coated couple looked at the samples and blinked. I thought, "Man, I look like a tackball compared to Mr. and Mrs. Urban Cool. Well, I like those colours, so chin up."

Then the woman said, resignedly, "Man, we are SO BORING with our four shades of gray."

While they were making me feel tacky, I was making them feel boring.

(Incidentally, I used the Teal Zeal and the Asparagus to detail a wooden chair and a box during the process of renovating my attic workroom.)
posted by orange swan at 6:17 AM on July 24, 2017 [8 favorites]


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