When I got my license, and again when I got my passport (I think?), I had to fill in my eye color.

The way you always see the question being used on TV (“Oh, you say you love me? Really, then? What color are my eyes?!”), it’s as if it’s the first thing you’re supposed to notice about people.

I realized a year or two ago, and re-realized the other day, that my eyes are definitely not blue, which contradicts what my license says. (Actually, I don’t see it printed on my license?) But the problem is that I really have no clue what color they are, only that “Blue” is definitely not right. I think they defy description, actually.

So I was thinking that maybe, next time I had to get my license renewed (or if I end up moving to Boston), I could take take a photograph of my eyeball a week ahead of time, post it here, and let people vote.

But can you change your eye color? I assume, “Hey, I lost 150 pounds, so I’ve got to update my weight on my license” is something DMV people might deal with fairly routinely. (Okay, so judging by how society looks, it may be going in the other direction. But the point is the same: weight changes over time.) But changing your eye color? I suppose I could try to pretend that whoever entered the data many years ago got it wrong, but they’d probably ask why I didn’t correct it when I got my license renewed.

So maybe I could say that they changed colors?

Also, do you think, in the little “Eye: ___” field, I can fit in, “A chartreuse shade of puce?” (Sadly, you can’t search the text of comics, so I can’t find the link, but I assure you that I’m quoting an old Dinosaur Comics strip, not going off the deep end.)

Edit: Oh. My. God. The comic I mentioned.