A couple of weeks ago I was doing a spring clean on my studio and I came across a pair of new seat covers in the bottom of a cupboard. I picked them up on EBay years ago just after the Steves did their tossing of the club symbols routine (tossers). At the time I wanted to pick up some of the good stuff before the merchandise ninjas got their new branding into circulation. To cut a long story short, the guy selling on EBay sent me a pair of the new ones and wouldn't take an exchange despite advertising the good ones on his site. The argument was fruitless, so I just put the covers aside (and forgot about them).
Last week I was out east and my dog threw up in the ute after a dodgy pie in Northam. Poor bloke, didn't know where to sit - ended up on the floor feeling pretty sorry for himself. When I got back to town I decided to fit those bloody new seat covers in the ute - I couldn't have gone any longer with the old ones (they were worn out). This morning I got the old ones off and stretched the new ones over the buckets. People may mistake me for Jezza but that's just the way it goes.
Not that I was surprised or anything, but the bloody piping on the new covers is BLUE - its nowhere near purple. It just looks stupid, this isn't just in the eye of the beholder kind of thingo - this is way off:
Given that our WA sun is full of uv, normally it bleaches the colour red out of things before anything else. Those old covers have been in my ute since 2008, they've seen plenty of sun over the years. Those new ones have been buried in a cupboard, they couldn't have been sun bleached.
You know, those Steves have a lot to answer for - what a shocking stuff up they've inflicted on everyone. The lesson for the day (you may ask)? Yeah, quit flogging all these slogans about the 'Mighty Purple', the 'Purple Army', the 'Reign of Purple'. That's crap, they can't even get the bloody piping on a pair of seat covers right.
