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When I was 10 or 11, my mother had presented me with a pile of clothing that I was told had come from my cousins. I think I sorted through the pile and kept a couple of items, considering it mostly rather odd looking. I seem to remember being light on jeans one morning and settling on a pair from that pile that looked tan (khaki? green? grey?) to my colorblind eyes.
I was immediately chastised and teased in school that day (mostly by girls) for wearing PINK PANTS. I made it through the day, and when I got home threw the pair of evil jeans in the donation basket my mother kept in the basement. When I asked my mother why in god's name, she let me walk out of the house in pink pants, she replied (much funnier if you knew mom) : "They're not pink! They're SALMON"
I love and miss her, but I think from that day forward I never went clothes shopping without a friend, or one of my brothers around.
Incidentally, when I told the story to my brothers, they laughed and told me to NEVER wear any of the cousin's hand-me-downs.
Colorblindness can be dangerous.
Posted by: Neil Goldstein | September 17, 2013 at 01:17 PM
The struggles of being colorblind. Before I met my wife, I wore only black.
Posted by: herculodge | September 17, 2013 at 01:57 PM
Neil: Some adult men wear that color (I'm not one of them.). They call it "Nantucket red."
Jeff: I hope Jerry Brown doesn't have you thrown in jail (make that prison) for using too much water when you flushed the toilet that many times. Some government officials make our "business" theirs. By the way----my house (built in 1974) still has original toilets in two of the three bathrooms. I'm never giving them up. They actually work. No clogs in those babies.
Posted by: Angelo | September 17, 2013 at 04:15 PM
Being color blind had certain advantages. You couldn't be drafted during ww2, korean war or vietnam if you're "100% color blind".
Posted by: spin | September 17, 2013 at 04:24 PM
When my twin boys were around 18 months, one of them flushed some plastic bath toys.
We had to take the toilet out of the floor to fix it.
Posted by: Michael Brent | September 17, 2013 at 05:30 PM