I was on the road to Wilpattu with some overseas visitors.
We had stopped in the heart of Puttlam town to buy some provisions. When I
heard giggles in the background. It seems my visitors found the name board of a
store funny. I looked at the board they were referring to and for the life of
me could not understand what was so funny. It was another regular “dealer
board” as we call it in marcom jargon with a name of a paint company dominating
it and the name of store spelt out in small lettering. I was wondering if there
was some kind of typo - as it is bound
to happen in Sri Lanka – which made them find it funny. There was nothing I
could see. After much probing it came out they thought that the brand of paints
which was advertised “Asian Paints” was extremely funny. After all no one would
had a brand of paint called Negro Paint or Chinese Paint or Caucasian Paint for
that matter. I could see where they were coming from but to be honest I did not
find it as amusing. However I could not resist telling them that they called it
Asian paint because the only colors were on offer were shades of Brown and
Yellow. J
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