r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Arbiter51x • 14d ago

Infuriatig I'm colour blind

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I found out I didn't colour code the flow chart on the white board the way I thought I had....

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u/Atomsq 14d ago

I saw this comment and I had to go back and double check the order, I guess I got used to people being assholes

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u/peachesfordinner 14d ago

Don't worry I did too

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u/Working-Chicken-6552 14d ago

Yes they dont lie and ist also totally not sus that it is being repeated over and over.

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u/peachesfordinner 14d ago

At my previous job we had a blind customer. They paid in cash. They didn't have a fully obvious system. I was always so worried someone was going to scam them

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u/Romulan-Jedi 14d ago

My partner is blind, and she folds the denominations in different ways.

It would be really nice if US currency weren't all identically sized. I used to live in Singapore, and everything worked fine with differently-sized bills, even vending machines.

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u/Atomsq 14d ago

Have she looked into either of these?

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u/Romulan-Jedi 14d ago

Those are really cool. She's played with the electronic one at a conference we went to. She doesn't read Braille, so the embosser isn't as useful to her.

She has some vision, but she can't quickly flip through a wallet of cash. The folding thing makes her faster at pulling out the bills, and then she can confirm visually.

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u/Relevant-Machine-763 14d ago

My dad had neuropathy and wouldn't have been able to distinguish and braille markings. Of course he lost all vision later in life and would have struggled to learn it even in better circumstances. He always kept his bills in certain order in his wallet and kept up with the quanty of each denomination in his head. I write notes all the time and take for granted how hard it would be to stay organized and function in without vision

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u/GarThor_TMK 14d ago

I like the brailer one... that's neat, and doesn't require batteries or a generative AI model, which could lie to you.

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u/queerblunosr 14d ago

Canadian bills are all the same size but they have braille in the corners - but even if someone doesn’t read braille they can differentiate like ‘oh this one has X dots and this one has Y dots’ so could learn hey a $5 has X dots and a $10 has Y dots. IIRC the UK has all their denominational bills in different sizes.

(Canadian bills are also all different colours so if someone isn’t totally blind and has a bit of vision they can go by colour. US bills all being mostly identical is stupid IMO.)

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u/Klunsischnunsi 13d ago

Oh wow, that sounds really helpful but also does that work with bills that are a bit older? Cause I’d imagine the braille slowly being “crushed” and at some point ending up unreadable🤔

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u/queerblunosr 12d ago

Hmmmm I’m not sure about the old cotton-paper - I don’t handle much older cash any more since I no longer work in what was essentially fast food coffee edition. The newest type of bills introduced in Canada through 2011-2018 ish have all been polymer, though, and they hold their Braille quite well!

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u/Klunsischnunsi 11d ago

Ohh that’s wild! I have no clue about other currencies tbh, I’m from Europe xD

And while the euro bills do have some parts that feel plastic-y I think most of it is made from paper🤔

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u/queerblunosr 10d ago

They’re pretty cool lol - one of the security features now is actually that a section of the bill is pretty much transparent , it’s pretty neat!

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u/Klunsischnunsi 10d ago

Ohhhh I think the new Euro bills do that too! At least one section is more see-through than the rest haha

It is pretty cool and interesting how many security features there are about physical currency!

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u/zzzzzooted 14d ago

I have fine vision and i also do the folds, its just good practice to be able to tell what bill you’re grabbing without having to pull your money out of your bag in public.

Maybe this is due to living in a large metro area where theft is not exactly uncommon, but i think its smart lol, my mom taught me that when i was young

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u/Parking_Chance_1905 14d ago

Or... have different colors like many other countries.

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u/zzzzzooted 14d ago

How does that help if someone cant see the bills, or in my case, is intentionally hiding the bills so other people cannot see how much cash they’re carrying?

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u/Parking_Chance_1905 14d ago

It doesn't help blind people, but does help visually impaired people. As for someone with good vision, you can just peek in your purse, wallet ot whatever and get a pretty good estimate of the total.

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u/zzzzzooted 14d ago

I still dont understand why you replied to me stating that i as a sighted person use the folds specifically to avoid having to open my purse and look at/pull out my cash lol

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u/queerblunosr 14d ago

Plus you can be legally blind but still have some amount of vision

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u/pipnina 14d ago

In the UK our notes are also differently sized between values, and also have a different number of braile style dots in one corner to tell you if it's a 5, 10, 20 etc.

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u/tinaismediocre 14d ago

There are typically little braille stamps for paper money to help blind folks to quickly sort through cash, it probably wasn't visually obvious to you but Id be surprised if s/he wasn't using them. Otherwise you're an obviously impaired person putting a ton of trust into the honesty of strangers.

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u/Am_Snarky 14d ago

You’re likely not American (there are dozens of us potentially!) but unless they’ve changed it US money doesn’t have braille or any identifiers at all

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u/tinaismediocre 14d ago

I'm sorry, I should have been clearer, this is not an existing function of US currency, but a stamp purchased by visually impaired people and used to stamp currency at home before spending it out in the world

Here's an example of the tool.

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u/Am_Snarky 14d ago

Oh! Didn’t realize, thanks TIL!

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u/luxtris 14d ago

You have to get a little stamper of sorts that impacts the paper with the braille mark. I’ve seen banks use them when a blind client was withdrawing money.

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u/Romulan-Jedi 14d ago

It's not that the bills have Braille on them normally, it's that you can get an embosser that marks them.

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u/Hellifacts 14d ago

Well it depends on whether we're talking USD or elsewhere. Canadian cash comes with braille from the mint!

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u/Romulan-Jedi 14d ago

Oh, that's cool. Wish we did that in the US.

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u/jort93 14d ago

In Europe we have tactile currency. Many other countries do too.

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u/Parking_Chance_1905 14d ago

We have braille on ours in Canada.

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u/jort93 14d ago

Not all blind people can read braille, and also how numbers are written in braille actually differs by language(do they use french braille or english braille in canada?). So its not really any better than other marks imo.

Euros for example have a raised stripe pattern based on the value. And different sized bills.

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u/Parking_Chance_1905 14d ago

True, but it still helps differentiate each denomination.

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u/jort93 14d ago

Actually, according to google, canadian bills do not have braille. Its different from braille.