Short story: Colour blind to the rainbow of possibilities

Oscar O’Neill was sipping his mid-morning coffee when he got a call from Detective Inspector Luke Stott. ‘I hope I’m not interrupting your clinic?’ he asked. ‘No, you’re fine,’ Oscar replied. ‘You’ve managed to hit a gap between patients.’ What Oscar neglected to mention was the length of the gap: about an hour in this case.

‘Did you know that Australian pilots could be colour blind?’ Stott continued.

‘Yes, I had heard that,’ Oscar replied.

‘I think the same is true of Russian train drivers as well,’ he added.

Before Oscar had time to ask why the DI was asking, Stott exclaimed, ‘I don’t believe it!’