Excerpt from an exchange between yours truly and a carpenter employed to build a wardrobe for me, via a translator (otherwise, I wouldn't have understood this little gem).

Me: But it's black. We ordered this colour and you agreed. (Pointing to a brown varnished table)
Carpenter: Ke ghaanay? Nepali phrase meaning: Yeah, well, that's life. Literally, what to do?
Me: We want it changed to this colour.
Carpenter: Can't you just think of it as very dark brown?

Honestly, only in Kathmandu is this sort of thing said in perfect seriousness.

- Two days ago, my flat in Kathmandu, Nepal.