I wear my sunglasses at night...

[magid]

...and through the day, since the frame of my regular glasses snapped last night, near one end of the wire bridge. No way to fix it on Shabbat, and the momentary terror before I remembered I had prescription sunglasses, however nonideal they were, was not good. I'm really not functional without eye correction...

I was doubly lucky tonight, though: 4Eyes was open until 6 (read: a good hour after Shabbat ended) and had a pair of frames in stock that my lenses would fit. Just one pair, but one is good enough.

This was definitely a wake-up call to get my eyes checked for the year and get a new pair of glasses if at all necessary (which would leave me the current ones as back up, and the sunglasses after that). I've deferred getting new ones partly because my prescription hadn't changed much, and partly because it's such a pain to pick out frames when I can't see what I look like in them, since I'm not wearing contacts.

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[mabfan.livejournal.com]

I try to make sure I always have a spare pair of glasses, but often it's an older prescription. Still, it's better than nothing.

A few years ago, when Nomi needed new frames, she also bemoaned how difficult it was to see how she looked in the mirror when trying them on. I suggested she go to the optometrist wearing her contact lenses. It had never occurred to her, and I felt more proud of myself then I probably should have for thinking of and offering the suggestion.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

To clarify, this was at a time I wasn't wearing my contacts regularly.

Actually, the whole "wearing my contacts regularly" thing is also due to a broken-glasses incident. mabfan and I had gone down to New York, and I had packed (for reasons unclear to me, actually) not only spare glasses, but a pair of contact lenses. When my glasses broke (at the nosepiece, making them completely unwearable), I put in my lenses rather than using my (two-prescriptions-ago) spare glasses. And I got lucky -- around the corner from my mother-in-law's house was an optician who (miracle of miracles) had one pair of frames that would fit my lenses.

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

when my husbands snapped (at the nose piece) we held them together for a few days with clip on sunglasses...

[magid.livejournal.com]

I wish I had the clip-ons! For my next pair of glasses, I definitely want them.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I've had these glasses long enough that I don't know where the previous pair went, actually. And I haven't had any contacts in a long time, either, mostly because I'm cheap and lazy, and glasses are a lot easier most of the time.

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

eep!
glad you had a make do.
i have a spare pair that is one level of prescription off...when wayne snapped his frames we were frantic because he is allergic to most of the cheap metal frames....

make a point of getting your eyes checked and new glasses, and then tck the old ones in a findable place, just in case....

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I'll definitely be keeping these once I get new ones; the prescription is close enough (of course, I say that now...).

I used to have at least one old pair of glasses around, but they were so old that they weren't any use to me, so I gave them to one of those drives for old glasses.

[kissoflife.livejournal.com]

my sympathies! Somehow, the tale is also a little funny, maybe just owing to the cute title.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was more annoying than funny at the time (walking at night with less ability to see the ice isn't a wonderful thing), but now it's over, so I get to use it as a story. (Though as always, a story is better if one has some dramatic bit to it, say, if I'd broken the glasses while falling from a camel, or rescuing someone from a burning building, or trying skydiving, or something like that. Taking off a sweatshirt isn't an interesting plot twist.)

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, but if it gave rise to pithy reflections on the nature of mortality(of plastic objects, at any rate) which gave arise to weightier events of blurried misapprehension and relationship breakage(say, with your ISP carrier, perhaps), you might have a contender as a One Act, there.

[kissoflife.livejournal.com]

*rolls eyes* That was me, of course.

[magid.livejournal.com]

The old frames were wire/metal, while the new are plastic, which is definitely not the preferred direction of change....

[pling.livejournal.com]

Our optician here has a camera + computer setup where it takes pics of you in different frames & displays 6 at a time for you to choose from. It made a lot of difference last time I was choosing glasses (didn't have my contacts in because my eyes were being tested ... ).

So maybe if wearing contacts isn't an option take a friend with a digital camera?

[magid.livejournal.com]

Heck, just having a friend there who has some ideas of what looks good on me in light of current options (glasses seem to mostly be more rectangular these days, if a quick look around the place was at all representative) would be better than just me, unless there happens to be a really good salesperson.

(Which is to say, it's been so long since I've chosen, plus I don't have to look at my face much compared to any of my friends... :-)

That's a very cool setup your optician has. I hope that's something more places start doing.

[cellio]

Maybe take a digital camera along and take pictures of yourself?

When I got my current pair of glasses I was able to prevail upon them to get the same frames as my previous pair. (My thinking was that this was instant backup: if necessary I could transfer current lenses to the older frame.) Alas, they accidentally got a frame that is 1MM off from the previous one, so that lens-replacement trick doesn't work, but I still got something for which I knew the size and shape would be fine. (The color was a little different but acceptable.)

[magid.livejournal.com]

That makes sense... but requires me to acquire a digital camera (or a cell phone with photo capability). Yet another reason to join the 21st century.

According to the guy who helped me Saturday, they had only one frame that fit my current lenses: the fashion in lens shapes has shifted since I got these (not sure how many years ago, but >3). So the next pair will likely be a different shape :-(.

There's a side rant in here somewhere about the cost of frames (~$70 for some plastic and metal, without the lenses), but I'll save that.

[powerfrau.livejournal.com]

Isn't that weird how it works....can't see without glasses, can't see frames to get 'em...