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    From JOE MACKEY@1:135/392 to DARYL STOUT on Friday, February 18, 2022 05:34:06
    Daryl wrote --

    He was driving a red car, she was in a blue.
    He was driving a red Ford Explorer, she in a blue Chevy Tahoe, etc.

    I'm still waiting to see the plaid paint jobs at the body shop.

    I have actually seen some cars with a colour scheme like that.
    One was sort of a yellow and brown check paint job.
    We have an colour option on the ticket writer for "other".
    One day a co-worker and I saw one of those fancy paint jobs that change colour as the light hits it.
    I asked "what colour would you call that?" and he said "Other".
    Many times its tough to know what colour a car is. Some silver ones
    appear blue, some blue ones silver. I always the newbies "take your best guess".
    Joe
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  • From George Pope@1:153/757 to Joe Mackey on Friday, February 18, 2022 14:10:30
    One was sort of a yellow and brown check paint job.
    We have an colour option on the ticket writer for "other".
    One day a co-worker and I saw one of those fancy paint jobs that change colour as the light hits it.
    I asked "what colour would you call that?" and he said "Other".
    Many times its tough to know what colour a car is. Some silver ones
    appear blue, some blue ones silver. I always the newbies "take your best guess".

    Why not a one or two letter capital lettered(or alphanumeric) code to indicate "or similar"
    Or mark the top of the day's page if the weather visibility conditions are extra dim, or bright/glaring.

    Or WTFK for "Who the fleep knows"? but if asked by a tight-arse, you can say it stands for "Was the freaky kind"



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  • From Daryl Stout@1:2320/33 to JOE MACKEY on Sunday, February 20, 2022 19:53:00
    Joe,


    I asked "what colour would you call that?" and he said "Other".
    Many times its tough to know what colour a car is. Some silver ones appear blue, some blue ones silver. I always the newbies "take your
    best guess".

    What would you do, if every car in the parking lot was the same model,
    and the same color, and when you pressed the FOB, all of them went off??
    Do you get your pick?? :P

    Daryl

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