My dad worked for a very large vehicle company. They insisted they transfer him to the paint department but he asked to not be transferred. They had a lot of people try to not work in that department because it was harder work, so they thought he was refusing because he didn’t want to do it.
He didn’t last a week in that department after he kept using the wrong colours and had a line of mis-coloured side mirrors. He’s really, really colour blind
Every time I let slip to someone new I’m color blind it’s an “oh I fucked up moment” followed by “WhAt CoLoR iS tHiS?¿”
I was feeling sick for a couple days, then one day my girlfriend stopped me as I was making a sandwich and told me it had mold on it. Turns out I had been making sandwiches with moldy bread for days, but couldn’t tell because the mild kind of blended in with some patches of flour.
Human Biology in high school was a stone bitch. There is very little in that field of study which is not color-coded and poorly so. Lots of those moments there.
My brothers also thought it funny to sneak an item of red clothing into my whites, so that I would go to school and be halfway through my day wearing pink socks without knowing it before someone who didn’t like me would be sure to let me know.
Because we also tend to have better night vision, I’ve done things like fail to notice that my headlights aren’t on when driving at night, because I could see just fine. Turns out, this can somewhat alarm your less gifted passengers when it occurs though…
It’s also fun to be treated like you’re a hallucinating crazy when you point out wildlife in the brush only to find that what is plain as day to you is something they cant see, sometimes even after the animal has been startled into movement.
Related to that is when a normie insists two items of tan or khaki clothing are the same color, even though you can plainly see that they are different. It’s surreal. Like suddenly, the other person is the one who’s colorblind.
The WORST? I blew a red with two friends in the car because to me, it was green.
Now I check the location of the light and it’s color.