Phil:
What was most painful about the experience was that I thought I really, really wanted them. I grew up with mostly White appliances in my immediate and extended family, except for our resident glamour girl, my second cousin's wife Betty Ann, who had all Turquoise Westy majors in the kitchen and Turquoise Lady Ks in the basement. Colored appliances were way uptown to me.
I'd also grown up seeing Coppertone appliances on TV shows for years. Hazel had them some years, so did The Donna Reed Show. Even up into the '70s, The Mary Tyler Moore Show had them in Mary's second, high-rise apartment.
When I got some, it was the biggest gap between desire and reality I'd ever had. Well, at least until I met a guy named Mike....