Above are three objects that I found on the sidewalks of London this week. Do you know what they are? (If you have ever lived in Britain, please don't answer until others have had a chance to play.)
Bonus points available for assigning names to the colors.
They look an awful lot like pens.
ReplyDeleteColors: Red, cyan, chartreuse?
They are indeed pens, but there's more to the story than that. Each one comes from a different business establishment: red for one company, blue for a second, and green for the third.
ReplyDeleteNext to red rubber bands (which I'll discuss in a future blog), these pens constitute some of the distinctive street litter of London. I encountered more than a dozen such pens on the sidewalk as I was walking home from dinner a few nights ago.