The BEHR Paint Store

“Hello, this is BEHR paint, stain and finish company, how can I help you?” That was me, Natalie, answering the unusable toy phone that Cale and I use for our pretend “BEHR” paint, stain, and finish store. This is how it got started…

As you probably know, BEHR is a real company of paint, stain and finish. They sell these things at Home Depot. That’s where our story begins. Cale, my mom and I were at The Home Depot, looking for paint colors for our basement. (I think my mom posted about our basement, right?) Anyway, we happened to come across, (while looking at the big paint stand with the paint color sample cards), a little booklet with the BEHR logo on the cover. (See what I’m holding in the picture above.) Cale and I unfolded them, and they appeared to have all the colors of paint BEHR sells!!

Very excited, Cale exclaims: “Mom! Can me and Natalie each take one of these book things home!? I think they’re free!” And then my mom said “Sure.” So then, Cale was happy. I grabbed one too. “They’ll be fun to look at,” I thought to myself. Little did I know that those booklets would create the “BEHR Paint, Stain and Finish Store.”

Let’s back up a little. Cale and I used to do this thing called “desk clerk.” It’s where Cale and I pretended to work for a Grand Haven Hospital. I was a secretary that answered a phone, and Cale worked at a computer. Pretend  people would “call in” to make an appointment with their pretend doctor. Then, I would answer the phone, and write all their info down in a notebook. Every appointment would be written in a different color pen. (See my pens and notebook above.) Cale would pretend to type all the patients’ info into the pretend computer to confirm the appointment.

Back to the paint store…

I had just finished playing a song on the piano when I had the idea. I had seen Cale looking at his booklet and suddenly an idea flew into my head! I shouted: “Cale! What if we used our paint books to have an office at the BEHR company!? It could be like our desk clerk game, but only with people ordering paint!” Cale thought it was a great idea. So, we got things set up, and have playing nicely ever since.

That’s pretty much the end of my story, but I have one more picture to show you…

   This is how people would call in and how I would answer and record everything:

Ring!! The phone rings. I answer. “Hello, this is BEHR paint, stain and finish company, how can I help you?” Then, I would put the person on speakerphone. I would get my pen of choice ready. I would ask the person: “What’s your name?” They would answer. I would ask them: “What color of paint do you want?” they would tell me the code number of the paint, or the actual name of the paint. For example, each color started with UL. UL22o-1 was our most popular color called “Caribe.” “Caribe” is a dark turquoise. All the code numbers and names of the paints were on the booklet. I would write their color name and code down. Next, I would ask the person how many gallons of the paint they want. (If you wanted 25 gallons of paint, it would cost you $40 dollars. The cost of the paint is $15 dollars more than the number of gallons you have.) I would write the number of gallons  and the cost of the paint down. Lastly, I would ask the person if they wanted to come to the BEHR building to pick up their paint, or have their paint sent to them. I would write down all the dates and times they say.

(Also, Cale could get sent an email on his computer from a costumer and tell me all the info to write down. We would go through a similar process to the one I just described to you.)

I really hope you liked my story about mine and Cale’s BEHR Paint, Stain and Finish Store. It took a long time to type all this. You know, if you ever want to order paint from BEHR, just call. If you hear: “Hello, this is BEHR paint, stain and finish company, how can I help you?”, you’ll know you called the right place. 🙂