colorblind
a month or so ago, i bought a box of egg-free, dairy-free, wheat-free, nut-free vanilla frosting mix. i had intended to mix it with blue food coloring to make a blue's clues-esque cake for a boy's birthday party.
the other night i mixed it up and was disturbed to see it was very strongly yellow. (duh. with the amount of dairy-free margarine in it, what else could it be?) i put in a few drips of food coloring and it turned green. in a fit, i put the frosting in the fridge.
last night, i pulled it out again and added a little more blue. paul looked at it with interest. cam insisted it was blue. i insisted it was green and oh my god what am i going to do? paul and cam left the room. i added more and more blue and bewailed the greenness.
cam called out from the other room that i should bring it over to where they were sitting and let paul decide. it's blue, he told me. paul would know that it's blue.
skeptically, i brought it to them.
cam: paul, what color is that?
paul: green!
defeated, i went back to the kitchen and added more blue.
cam: paul, what color?
paul: green!
cam: the light in here is really yellow!
me: feh.
so i went back into the kitchen and dumped more blue in. cam and paul came into the kitchen to see.
cam: paul, what color is that? it's blue, right?
paul: b...bloo.
cam: see?
it's still green, but it was nice of cam to try. i think, though, that this was a clear example of leading the witness.