BS: I'm colorblind. Anyone else?

Subject: RE: BS: I'm colorblind. Anone else?
From: sian, west wales
Date: 15 Sep 03 - 09:52 AM

I've got full technicolour vision (as far as I know) but my sister, who is a professional wardrobe mistress, once worked with a colour-blind costume designer in Canada. It was horrible enough, just the once. But then she was hired to do the summer season at Banff and was asigned to the Broadway Musical - which was Brigadoon that year. She found out that the aforementioned designer would be designing and she insisted that she was switched to the Opera project. She just couldn't bear the idea of working with him on a musical full of tartan!

sian

Subject: BS: I'm colorblind. Anone else?
From: Deckman
Date: 15 Sep 03 - 09:36 AM

I'm colorblind, as in I don't see colors. It's not been too much of a problem for me, but it sure drives other people nuts. Besides, I've had my whole lifetime to get used to it. Nevertheless, I still run into amusing situations.

As a deck builder, I work a lot with the new composite decking materials that come in various colors. I get around that problem by simply showing the customer the choices and they pick out the color. But occasionally I'll receive material at the jobsite that has mixed colors in it, and I'll just go ahead and lay it in with the rest of the material. It all looks the same to me, but sometimes the customers don't like it.

Probably my greatest frustration is the almost guarenteed question I get when I explain to people that I don't see colors: "Really! What color is this shirt I'm wearing?" (well duh!)

I'm wondering if other people out there have similiar stories? CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson