The House Was Blue, Let it Go

Submitted by Clayton...

I'm not a Doctor, but I stayed a Best Western once.

My wonderful wife is brilliant in many subjects, but in the spectrum of colours, she is green, (and this makes me blue).  groan.

I believe the most semi-educated junior high student would quickly explain to Jenn that she is actually afflicted with a condition known as tritanopia.  Explaining this to her might also reveal a further condition known as stubbornacia.  I had set up an account at a local bank where donations could be deposited shortly after we came to realize this, several years ago now.  We never did get any donations, although I attribute this to a failure in my e-mail campaign as I believe we were using dial-up at the time (remember dial up - yuk).  Despite the hardships that followed, we managed to stay together.  Yes there were tears (mine were blue, hers - green) and some harsh language (hers was blue and mine was not).  But I digress.

It was really odd to know that the person next to me who had the same shared experiences, had built all her memories with a totally different house.  It made me wonder what other things did we see differently?

No, she didn't see stop lights as Red, Yellow and Blue.

No she didn't think the American flag was red, white and green.

No she didn't think our Christmas tree was blue.

No she wouldn't answer any more stupid questions.

It is strange to see that people do have a different views of the world.  Not just our interpretations and our judgements, but the very basics like colours too.  (I'd thought as a society we could all agree on colours once we hit grade one.)  I guess its really not so different than differing tastes when it comes to food.  I hate peas and can't understand how people would like them (the green variety of course).

Anyhow the truth is, the house is blue.  My 3 year old KD confirms it, and she is pretty awesome when it comes to colours.

Clayton