Manly...or picky?

To make a long story short, I was on the phone a couple of times today with a guy selling a car I liked. When, after some miscommunication, I finally get the VIN and run the Carfax check, it turns out that this nice black Rodeo is...green. It looked black in the pictures, but it's not. It's green.

I hate green cars*.

Now this is not some rejection of either environmentalism or Islam. Hey, my house is painted shades of green. (And I am kinda color blind, but even this blog might be green.) But that's different. This is a car. And it's "spruce green". To me that reads "no character". It's a color that says, "If I could be invisible and still be annoying, I'd be spruce green."

No way.

*I just realized. My first car was green. A green convertible. My dad bought it for me my senior year in high school. I developed a set of new friends...But after two months, he announced that something had happened with the deal which required the return of the car. Very mysterious. And back it went. I was a pedestrian once again. Gone the new friends. As I am now. Except then I was 18.

He never explained what happened. Maybe that's why I hate green cars...

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Speaking of manly, got my bottle of Connemara Peated Single Malt, an evil cigar and watching Torchwood, with Captain Jack Harkness. Good man, Captain Jack. None of his cars are green, either.

There was a recent controversy in gaydom because some gay writer suggested that straight audiences won't buy gay actors like Sean Hayes, who played an uber-queen on Will & Grace as romantic male leads with women. Duh. But I bet they'd buy John Barrowman, who plays omnisexual Captain Jack. In real life Barrowman is gay, partnered, out, etc. but the guy is convincing when he puts the moves on women and men both.