Here's Hoping She Was Color-Blind

So we were walking Dog I and Dog II over the weekend, and I had the most bizarre conversation-while-walking-the-dogs YET.

A woman walked by us, sort of made eye-contact/smiled but kept going, as you do when you're walking. Pretty standard stuff.

Except that a couple steps after that the dogs stopped to sniff something, and then she was right up next to me (she had turned around and come back.)

"Are those both [TYPE OF DOG]???" she asked.

Now, she was asking if they were both a certain color of type of dog. And they are clearly, in no way, the same color. So.

So I said "Well, this one is [TYPE OF DOG SHE THOUGHT], and this one is [SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT TYPE OF DOG...which is obvious from their coloring...but I was nice about it.]"

She continued her madness: "Oh, but aren't [DOG WHOSE TYPE SHE GOT WRONG] usually [COLOR THAT THE DOG ACTUALLY IS, BUT SHE APPARENTLY THOUGHT IT WAS NOT. Hence my hoping she was color-blind.]?!"

Me, having no idea what to say, because we were both looking at the dog, who is the color she had just said she "thought" it "should" be but she seemed to think it was not....?

"Well, yes, this one is a [REPEAT TYPE OF DOG and hope she leaves it at that]...?"

Her: "Oh. I had two [TYPE OF DOG SHE ORIGINALLY THOUGHT] before."

Me: "How fun. Well, they're great dogs...."

And then she just walked away.

I looked at Mr. Perfect, who had been a few steps away -- maybe I had mis-heard her?

He was shaking his head and shrugged -- "I don't know...not sure what to say about that one."

All in a day's "walk," I suppose!