My brother hired a really horrible contractor.

My brother and sister-in-law recently hired a contractor to come in and do some work on their house and yard. The work the contractor was to do was to replace their sod in the backyard and paint some of the rooms inside the house. The contractor got a crew working on the yard, and went inside the house with my brother and sister-in-law.

The first room that needed painted was the kitchen. The contractor showed my brother and his wife several colors, and finally they decided on almond. The contractor agreed that almond would look great and went over to the window and opened it. He proceeded to yell “GREEN SIDE UP!!!” out the window, apparently to his employees. My brother and sister-in-law looked at each other, but said nothing.

The next room they wanted painted was the living room. After looking at the samples, they decided on eggshell white (or some other variant of white – I can’t keep them all straight). At this point, the contractor went over to one of the living room windows, opened it, and yelled “GREEN SIDE UP!!!” again. Once more, my brother and his wife looked at each other and said nothing.

The third room to be painted was the master bedroom. My sister-in-law had her heart set on this pinkish-red color that my brother detested. Finally, the two settled on a tannish-brown color that both could tolerate. The contractor nodded, went to the window, opened it, and once more yelled “GREEN SIDE UP!!!” out the window to his crew.

My brother had had enough of this nonsense by this time and wanted to know why, no matter what color he and his wife had chosen, the contractor yelled “GREEN SIDE UP!!!” out to his workers in the yard. The contractor said, “I’m sorry about that, folks. I should have told you before we started. All the guys I have working for me replacing your sod went to the University of Michigan, and I didn’t want them to get it backwards again.”

I've heard it before though as a Kentuckian joke.