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

well another box checked into this Old Life....

I'm still 20/20 for distance, but it's like reading in HD, my prescription isn't that strong, but what a trip to get used to them

getting that right distance is so tricky

 

Nah, that’s just life and shit.

You’re old when you buy them at the dollar store 5 or 10 pairs at a time for $2 each ‘cause you keep losing them.

 

I kept buying bigger TV's, 75"r and couldn't read the guide/menu.
Got the glasses about 2 years ago at 47, couldn't find the glasses then.
Friend got those dongle gizmos that the auld ladies wear around their necks.
Lost 4 pairs of glasses in 2 years...need to go get tested again.
It's amazing how much Im missing without glasses.
I can read fine without em.

 

Every other time we go out to eat...
me: "did you bring my glasses"
wife: "you didn't give them back last time; want me to read something?"
me: "you know what I like"

 

this is where I'd say "shit at the dollar store is $1", but I was recently shocked to find out Dollar Tree is now $1.25

 

Inflation. I'm surprised it's not a Dollar tree fitty yet.

 

I can't read the effing menu at the restaurant anymore. Especially when the lights are low. I usually have to use the light on my phone to see. I have a pair of reading glasses at home when I need to see small shit.

 

Even after lasik I still needed readers. Have these in every vehicle I own, including the Triumph.

 

Feel lucky, I was blind in one eye for a spell. And my glasses generally make people go wow due to the high astigmatism and reading glass on the bottom.

 

I read the beeb in braille.

 

My favorite menu trick is to put my phone on camera and then just zoom in, makes it much easier to see what I want.

I also am an online menu reader if I know where we are going ahead of time. We will be driving to the restaurant and my wife will ask me what I decided to have for dinner, it will get you weird looks when others are riding along.

 

or you have a podiatrist...lol
Thats when the "Damn Im old" really hits you

 

I buy readers by the dozen and my Daughter-in-law is a podiatrist. I am set.

 

Reading glasses are like crack for your brain. Don't believe me? Throw out all your reading glasses. In a few weeks you'll have normal vision again. I swear to God.

 

Add me to the "get off my lawn" club too.

Card carrying member of the reading glasses club for 2 years now.

As mentioned, it was reading a restaurant menu under restaurant lighting that was the eye-opener. A pal noticed me struggling and offered up his readers which I instantly was all uppity about, yeah, I tried them on and it was like the pearly gates had opened and the angels were singing.

Instantly made an appt to get my eyes checked, turns out they are fine for anything further than 18" away. Eye Doc said years of working on a laptop and cell phone has taken it's toll and the muscles that focus up close just can't keep up once most people hit mid-40's.

Costco 3-packs work great, reasonably comfy and well, "stylish" but now I'm lost without them and have em stashed everywhere - car, bedroom, office, laptop bag...

 

Dollar tree soon to be renamed 5 Spot.

 

There's already this ... had no idea what it meant until recently.

 

Five Bel degrees double you?

 

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