From A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers:
(The family room has) always been jumbled, the furniture competing, with clenched teeth and sharp elbows, for the honor of the Most Wrong-looking Object. For twelve years, the dominant chairs were blood orange. The couch of our youth, that which interacted with the orange chairs and white shag carpet, was plaid--green, brown and white.
I'm embarrassed to say this hit a little too close to home, literally.
What was my mother thinking when she purchased orange velour swivel chairs and eight-foot tall green blown glass table lamps?!?
