Oz was as Boring as Kansas

i was eating a teryaki burger at none other than the fantastically delicious pearl's deluxe burgers when i noticed a man wearing a spotty t-shirt.

it was spotty by design and not by mess, though pearl's is as famous for sloppiness as it is for buffalo burgers of amazing caliber.

after staring thoroughly at this man, i was able to determine he was wearing a color-blind test on his t-shirt. it was a smiley face which i could see because i am not color-blind.

but to the color-blind, this would've just been an usual spotted circle with no face inside.

i thought that was kind of mean. who designs a shirt that seems to be a smiley face to those of us lucky enough to see colors, but a grey circle for those who can't?

and who wears that shirt?

"if you're color-blind you do not deserve happiness brought to you by random shirts at burger joints."

and apparently there are a lot of color-blind t-shirts on the market. like the unicorn one above.

to me, it just seems like a dick move.

then again, i'm not sure i have the right to talk, considering the time i met a color-blind classmate who was trying to solve a rubik's cube. he saw in only black and white. and varying greys.

i'm not going to even get into that story, but i guarantee you i offended him with my uncouth questioning. i meant well but i was perhaps too curious about the differences in his everyday life to remember that not everyone receives my level of bluntness they way i mean.

i was particularly curious to know if he dreamt in color because if not, that would mean we could only dream within the boundaries of experience and we never truthfully create anything out of the blue.

i was also curious about a game of twister. and that might have been too far.

though, i feel i should mention he solved his rubik's cube by the end of our conversation.

he may have been a fake.