You Know How I Know You're Old.....reading glasses

I accept your challenge.

 

It was like a light switch for me, woke up one morning in my early 40's and everything within 18" was a blur where it was fine the day before.

 

Welcome to the club. We’ve been waiting.

4 months after I hit 44 it was almost instant. Woke up one morning and my phone was blurry.

@motion complete bullshit statement. As you age your eye lenses become less pliable and you lose your ability to focus on things up close and small print, etc.

 

I can clearly see that you won't need a pitch-man for your investment firm...

 

this explains your investments. maybe mine too

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some other things I learned:

-almost 90% of UV damage to the eyes happens before you're 18
-this new generation has a sky high proportion of teens/kids that are near sighted from computer/phone use

 

I was wearing glasses with coke-bottle lenses before personal computers were invented.

I know need something between my contacts and with using 1.5X reading glasses ... now I know why my dad wore tri-focals.

 

There’s a prescription eye drop for the old man syndrome. It’s called Vuity. One of you guys give it a trial run and report back to the beeb.

 

Interesting. I too, however, will wait until I hear feedback from others.

https://www.vuity.com/introducing-vuity

[added] Opinions: https://theophthalmologist.com/subspecialties/varied-views-on-vuity

 

This is sorta true...

I recently had a fairly major surgery and complications kept me off work and at home for about 5 months. I stopped wearing my glasses and within a few weeks of nothing but computers, phones, TV and books I didn't need them any more. Until I went outside of course. I was blind as a bat at anything over 50 feet. Not sure if I am that old at 53 (kidney is only 30 after all) but I definitely need new glasses.

 

Trying to read this damn thread...can't find my reading glasses.

 

This - I was 45 when it hit and have worn glasses for distance most of my life, but over the course about a week my ability to read my computer screen went to crap.

 

So back at work and these things don't work for me at the distance my monitors are at, which defeats their purpose to me.

I guess I'm still young

 

Have you tried the CTRL / scroll wheel trick.... all us old guys know that trick.

 

You know what reading glasses are great for ? Looking at yourself in the mirror to pluck the incredible amount of hair growing out of your ears.

 

Don't forget those eyebrow and nosers too.