My dad is borderline color-blind. Red stoplights took yellow. Yellow looks orange. Purple looks green. And greens, unfortunately, look blue. So when I called my dad yesterday to ask about loctite to use on the threads of my bike’s self-loosening chainring bolts, I should have known what to ask. The conversation went:
Particleman: Do you know what loctite is?
Dad: Of course.
P: Do you have any?
Dad: Yeah, in the garage. Above the workbench on a shelf in a red bottle.
P: Red? Ok. But what color is the loctite? It comes in different colors with different bonding strengths, green, red, and blue. I need blue.
Dad: Yeah, the bottle is red but the fluid is blue.
P: Thanks. I’m borrowing it. Some bolts on my bike are coming loose.
Dad: Ok.
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URL: http://www.whiterose.org/michael/blog
You may want to get him this T-Shirt. Or not, depends on your mom's sense of humor...
Posted by Michael | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
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here's my question (not born out of snark, oddly enough): how does he know that red looks yellow, yellow looks orange, purple looks green, etc. if he can't see them? wouldn't he just call the stoplight "red" and not realize that it looks like the color i call "yellow"? and i'm gonna say green, just to prove your point.
Posted by heatherfeather | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
maybe more of a bluish-green.
Posted by carrico | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
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he knows what the stop light colors are by where the light is. so if he ever manages to find a city where they're in a different order, run for your life. and thank you for proving my point. carrico, you suck. m - cool shirt. mom would definitely say no. as would dad.
Posted by particleman | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
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i dunno.. maybe under blue colored light, it'd look blue.
Posted by cherz | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16