Funny story.
I was set painting at the Rat's house when it came up that I was lacking in some colour spectrums. Which, to me, seemed laughable. We had no say in the paint or colour. It came just like a paint-by-numbers thing with the most laughable names possible. EG: Gøøfy Blue 412, Dønåld Yellow 291. (what a dystopian shithole)
A different dept head overheard the discusion and jumped in with: "Wait, you can't see certain colours? OMG how do you even function?"
Me: "I get up eat, go to work, go home, shit, sleep. Just like you."
Her: "No how can you see? What ones are you blind to?"
Me: "Mostly all greens, some reds, much of the stuff with red predominently mixed in."
Her: (dead serious) "I'm glad I'm wearing blue."
Me: "Huh?"
Her: "You'd be able to see me naked if I had green on."
Me: "WTF. You think that green is invisible?"
Her: "Of course. What else would it be?"
Me: "I'm an idiot. I should be working with a blue, yellow, and red so we could be super spies. Just hold up a card with all 4 colours on it and we could see through walls, briefcases, anything."
Her: "OMG you could."
My Boss: "Jesus Christ." Walks away. I followed him.
Yes, 100% true. That was the first time ever in my life that happened. Worse though, the second and only other time was 3 weeks later in another dept, by a totally unrelated other person. Made me question if I was hired because someone thought I was that stupid too.
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