I am one of those rare colorblind females. I have protanomaly, which causes me to see less red than a person with normal color vision would. Therefore, most shades of red appear to be orange to me.
Just today, I was in the car with my mother and she sped past a stop sign and nearly hit someone. It scared the hell out of me. So then I began to yell at her.
Me: You idiot! I almost pissed myself for a second there! YOU STOP AT THE BIG ORANGE SIGN THAT SAYS "STOP" ON IT!
Mother: Orange? You mean red...
And that's when she began laughing hysterically. To think I didn't know this for fourteen years... XD
A childhood belief about road signs
others believed things like this
- that red and orange were different shades of the same color— Larry
- I thought if 3 cards stopped at a 3-way stop sign then they had to stop forever until Christmas.Anon
- I thought "Orange is the New Black" was about wearing orange to funerals.Anon
- When I was young, I used to belive that
if you pushed the stop button in the bus it would stop for good.— Tom (Norway) - I thought for the longest time that a No Standing traffic sign meant no person should stand near that sign.— Shannon
- my mother was able to stop me from sucking my thumb by telling me it would rust and fall off!!— lv