Years ago I was an assistant coach on my nephew’s 9- and 10-year-old baseball team. Maestro, cue “Habanera” from the opera Carmen. This team was the incarnation of The Bad News Bears. In the distance, I can still hear my sister yelling, “Get ready to run outfield!”
On one particular game day, one of our players was dropped off drive-by style. His Mom slowed down just enough so he could get out of the car and she could keep going. He started sprinting. It was about 50 yards from the parking lot to the dugout.
He was running and eating Skittles by the handful. Not having children of my own at this point, I was perplexed. One of the kids offered up that those Skittles were his lunch and he had been eating them all day.
By the time he reached right center, he stopped and just threw up every freaking Skittle he had eaten the entire day. It was as though there was a rainbow coming out of this kid. We stared. It was some kind of rainbow mess in right-center field. From that day on, we referred to him as the Skittles King.
I bring all this up because the house featured in this week’s column reminded me of Skittles King. This is his kind of place.
Time to Taste The Rainbow
This room, drenched in the color of bright-green Skittles, is located in a home at 2055 South Joshua Tree Place, Palm Springs, California. The home has three bedrooms and four bathrooms and is 3,350 square feet. The owners are asking $2.299 million.
You can see the green Skittles are their favorite. Do you know who would appreciate this? These guys.
These guys could hit better than our team. I digress.
Ah, the red Skittles. So red that it leaves a red streak on your tongue. This red room, complete with the hot pink accent carpet, leaves its mark on you as well — and not in a tasty way.
I have seen this shade of blue before.
What puts this breakfast room over the top is the flooring and seal to the French doors. It is all so intensely yellow.
As disastrous as that team was, I look back at that time fondly. I got to spend time with my nephew and his friends, even Skittles King. It definitely was not for the baseball.
Yeah, that was our speed right there.
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