Crayon Stories: Robin's Egg Blue

  

Ah. Robin's Egg Blue. This, my friends, was the king of all crayons when I was little. Why? Well, not only is it an awesome color, but what amazed us kids was the fact that its name is three words long.

Yes. Three whole words. We would fight over this crayon just because of the word count on its wrapper.

Being the smart ass that I am, I pointed out that I had a crayon at home with four words in its name: World Wide Web Yellow.

Crayon Stories: Violet Purple

Welcome to crayon stories! I have one of those giant, 120 boxes of Crayola crayons. I want to write a little about each color. Just for fun!

Violet Purple

 

When I was in first grade I did my first color-by-number. One of the numbers called for purple, so I took out my box of crayons, each crayon labeled with my initials. I grabbed the purple, but to my dismay it violet purple. I wanted purple, just plain purple. It's what the worksheet demanded. Frustrated, I went to the back of the room, where my teacher kept jars of spare crayons. I opened the jar containing what appeared to be purple crayons. I grabbed one; it still said violet purple. I grabbed another, and another. I just could not win. I went to a fellow classmate of mine, and asked if he had a purple crayon. He said yes and gave me it. I was happy, but then disappointed when it was labeled violet purple. Really? He told me violet was the same as purple. I disagreed, but finally settled to color the purple areas violet.