So the other day, I’m watching TV in bed when all of a sudden I realize I can’t see! Feeling around on my face, I discover I’m not wearing my glasses. Apparently, I fell asleep without realizing it and woke up after a visit from the glasses fairy. They aren’t anywhere I can see, though without my glasses on, I can’t see much of anything.
After feeling around all over the bed, to my horror, I find them underneath me and freshly pressed! They are mangled and so wide that the term”your big, fat face” wouldn’t describe the individual who could wear them. They are bent in two places so severely that they look like they could snap if you breathed too hard. The only option is to try to bend them back and, as I do, the screw snaps, the right lens pops out (and goes flying across the bed) and the plastic part that goes over my left ear is cracked in two.
It’s 10pm and I’m due to drive my son to his homeschool field trip the next morning where he is the final student (quota) for our group rate. My dh valiantly works on them–rigging them up to be almost functional and they hold together during the entire field trip. Unfortunately, two hours after I get home, I put my glasses down and the lens launches itself across the table. Another hour in the husband eye glass repair shop and I’m good to go and so I do…off to my eye exam appointment the next morning.
Tune in tomorrow for part two of The Great Eye Glass Case entitled, “Dr. StrongArm, I presume.”
Glasses problems are terrible, especially when you can’t see anything without them. I’m always told to buy two pair just in case. Not when they cost almost $500 each at Walmart’s prices!!! Last time I was at America’s Best, ya know, the two pair for $69.95 folks. . . they offered me two pair of MINE for the low, low, low price of only $879! Yes, I could have written them a check, but it would have bounced all the way back to Atlantic City! Glad you got them jury-rigged into service, if only for a little while.
Yeah. The best price for my kind of lenses was $225 at Costco but apparently that includes 30yr old technology which is why I could never see to read with my bifocals. My new pair should work well. It has all the glasses bells and whistles except the glare for night driving for the low low price of $280. But I’ve survived years without that and I don’t tend to drive at night anyway. Maybe next time.
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Just hate that! I stepped on mine the other day when they had fallen off my night stand. Thankful they were okay. I think they are made of Kevlar! 🙂
Yay for Kevlar!
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