A few months ago my family and I moved into a new house. We left our small apartment to live in a big beautiful house at the edge of the city. We took all our old furniture to the new house, but we still needed a lot of new things. Besides that, we had to paint and decorate many of the rooms.
For weeks I went to apartment stores and paint shops almost every day,looking for curtains and carpets, wallpaper, and paint. Soon our house began to look like a beautiful home, but I had a problem with the bathroom.
I needed a shower curtain for the bath. I wanted one exactly the same colour as the walls. However, I couldn't find one that was just the right colour of blue. Luckily,my toothbrush was the same colour as I needed for the curtain. So I took it with me handbag when I went shopping. In each shop I showed my toothbrush to the shop assistant.
"Have you got a shower curtain exactly this shade of blue?" I asked, but none of the shops had a curtain of the same shade.
In one shop, I looked at eleven blue shower curtains. I looked at each curtain, and then I looked at my toothbrush.
"I'm sorry,"I said. "It's not the right colour."
Finally the shop assistant looked at me angrily and said:"Madam, why don't you buy a new toothbrush?