Glasses

I've needed glasses since my early 20's. Fortunately right now my job pays for glasses (something about their contract requiring anyone working there to have 20/20 vision), and I get a new pair every two years. But something unfortunate happened.

Two years ago, they convinced me to get what they call 'progressive lenses', which means that different parts of the lens have different focal... lengths? I don't have that vocabulary, but what it meant for me was uncomfortable. You see, I look with my eyes, but looking anywhere but dead ahead was blurry and warped. They said I'd get used to it, but I never did. After a month, I put on my old pair of glasses and they worked just fine. But something unfortunate happened.

They disappeared when on a nice family weekend for my wife's birthday. Gone without a trace, never to be seen again. I tried to wear the weird ones for the drive home, but it was so jarring that I just went without. My wife drove when it got dark.

When we got home, I went digging and found yet an older pair of glasses. They're a little worn out, with an odd bit of wire holding the rims together and some mismatches screws holding the temples on. They worked well enough, and weren't jarring at all. I've been using them since then, except I have to keep tightening the screws or the temples fall off.

My eye exam was today, and I flatly told them that I was going back to single distance lenses. I'm looking at my six year old pair that needs work and honestly they can't come fast enough.