color blind

dkmon67

At dinner the other night, a friend kept asking if the meat was ready yet. We were at the type of Japanese/Korean bbq restaurant with the grill built right into the table so that the diners have the pleasure of trying to cook a mountain of raw meats and eat it before it all burns beyond rationale. I thought he was just being annoying until the conversation turned to buttons or painting or some other inconsequential thing involving the ability to discern color, whereupon his girlfriend explained that he was colorblind.
"Like you can't tell blues, greens and grays apart?" I asked, thinking of another friend who had thought his pinstriped pants were gray when they were in fact a hilarious green. If only he had been into polka dotted shirts back then...
"More like I can't tell reds and browns...like if this meat is cooked or not."
Ah...right. Hearing that, however, didn't allow me to appreciate my superior sense of saturation and hue, but rather made me wonder about the fantastic colors that must elude the limited scope of human perception. Or even those colors that just don't exist in nature and haven't yet been manufactured. Where are you?