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The Detergent Salesman ” a short story from “Rainbows in Braille” – A collection of short stories – By Elmo Jayawardena The place looked the same. Houses painted in Pentalite colours, light ones and lighter ones that CIC sells in all possible shades. Reminded me of their clarion call, “Not white, not quite, but Pentalite”, always displayed on roadside billboards, father, mother, son and daughter with broad smiles in front of their newly painted home. That’s Pentalite and CIC for you. The lane was a cul-de-sac, five homes to the left and six to the right, the one less on the left was the result of a double-sized house and a doubled-sized garden, perhaps the nicest, hands down winner of the best house in the lane competition, if it came to that.          Green garbage bins lined the lane on either side, not the usual overflowing but recently emptied. The sidewalk too ...