I’ve been wearing glasses since second grade, with increasingly severe nearsightedness. When I was in college I tried to enlist in the Air Force (NOT as a pilot); after the eye test portion of the physical I looked at my papers and my uncorrected vision was shown as 20/900+ (don’t know if that’s the only reason I was rejected & subsequently reclassified as 4F by the draft board). I was starting to develop permanent dents in my nose from the weight of my lenses before they developed the that new plastic lightweight stuff. Finally “graduated” to bifocals a few years ago.
Put them on before I get out of bed. Should have another pair for back-up.
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As of 2/19/2002
My everyday pair, worn during most waking hours. Worn out, scratched and falling apart, out of style as hell
My prescription sunglasses, rarely worn anymore, even uglier than the regular ones. They look look the ones Tom Clancy wears only larger and darker.
An old pair stashed in the glove compartment, still wearable in emergencies, my vision quit changing for now.
Planning to get new ones soon, as part of my attempt at a makeover, but may try contacts. Depends on my self-confidence.
I’ve worn 'em for 36 years, give or take the few months here and there when I have experimented with contacts. Right now I have three pairs, one with a silver frame, one with a gold frame and one with a tortoiseshell frame. I also have prescription sunglasses, but they’re sitting in the lost and found bin of the hotel in Denver where we were stuck after 9/11. The hotel is too cheap to send them back to me gratis, even via regular mail, and I won’t give some desk clerk my credit card number over the phone so that they can bill a FedEx to me, so they’re just stuck there. They’re very cool Ray-Bans, and I really need to get them back. I gotta add that to my “To Do” list for this week.
Without my glasses, I can’t find my glasses. :eek:
Have worn contacts periodically, mainly for sport. Laser surgery is an option, but I’m hesitant. Thinking about trying long-wear contacts.
I use glasses for reading overhead slides and other far away things. I love putting them on and taking them off repeatedly, and watching things shift from sharp to slightly out of focus.
I used to wear glasses, but now I have contacts.
I do wear glasses. For about 7 months now, actually thought about contacts for the first time today- maybe I will. I don’t look too afeul in glasses, just more intellectual.
Yep, for about 21 years now. At my wife’s (constant) request, I’ll give contacts a try this summer.
Me. too. 3 pairs. One primary and two back-ups.
Yeah, I wear 'em, but it’s a self-preservation issue. You know - “Men don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses”… I got so tired of men constantly hitting on me, lusting at first sight, sending me gifts, begging for my attention…
Why are you laughing??
OK, seriously, over the last 3 years or so, my eyesight has deteriorated amazingly, so I wear progressive trifocals. I’ve got to go for an exam and a new pair this week. I think I’ll get prescription shades too. But contacts don’t appeal at all - just the thought icks me out. And I’m too cheap to investigate surgery. I’ll just age gracefully and find me some specs shaped like butterflies and covered with rhinestones. Yeah, I’ll be stylin’!
Damn, where’s that thread? I know it’s around here somewhere . . . . c’mon, where is it? Is this even the right room? It figures I would walk into the glasses thread without my glasses . . . yes! Here we go.
I, as a complete myopic, have been wearing glasses since the third grade. I have one pair, and I don’t do anything without them except sleep, bathe and swim. My extraordinary and very generous grandparents are paying for a second pair of prescription sunglasses after I lost the first pair they bought me.
I have worn contacts most of the time for the last 20 years. But lately I’ve been having my eyes dry out so much that it feels better to wear glasses. So I may just make the switch and wear glasses most of the time.
My eyesight in my good eye is about 20-300; in my bad eye, it’s 4 fingers at 3 feet, according to the last optometrist who even bothered to give me a clue. Plus I have astigmatisms. Yuck!
Proudly bespectacled, here – 2 pair, oval metal-rims with matching factory clip-ons for sun/driving; plus the last pair (by now hopelessly out of fashion – why do the lenses keep getting smaller and smaller?) as an emergency spare. Worn them since age 16, mostly for far vision (blackboards and driving), plus some astigmatism (amazing revelation, that the world had hard edges). More myopic in one eye, more astigmatic in the other Am starting to need to take them off to read small print, so I guess bifocals are in my future.
My specs have become a part of my persona – and I like ladies who wear eyeglasses, they add an “interesting” aura to her, IMO.
I’ll rely on the simpler, less-things-to-go-wrong technology if it does the job to my satisfaction. And it does – I’m 20/20 corrected with just a couple of pieces of metal and optical plastic that I can put in my pocket and wipe clean with a soft cloth. The idea of fussing around with cleaning solutions and specially moving things onto and off the surface of my eyeball with my finger totally puts me off contacts; and I am not paying good money to let anyone near any functioning organ with cutting instruments unless it is medically necessary.
I have the same problem. Hint: in addition to the glasses, wear your hair in a tight bun. Keeps 'em away in droves.
Three pair (one with easy-clip), one polarized outer-clip, and contacts. I wear the contacts when vanity demands.
I started to wear glasses three years ago. I love my glasses, I love putting them on and having everything come into focus. I think they look nice on me too. Being shortsighted, I don’t need them for computer work or reading but apart from that I wear them all the time.
I only have one pair though. I had two, and broke one pair at an LA dopefest by getting a bit inebriated and falling over and hitting my head on a plant pot. Yeah, I’m cool.
Two pair, my “geek” pair, with the little oval wire-rims (kind of bronze colored) that get almost daily wear, and my “professional” pair, tortoise shell on the top, rimless on the bottom. Contacts for “vanity” occasions.
One pair of wire-rim specs for me. Started wearing them about 3 months ago only to have associates begin making assertions that I looked like “an intelligent biker”. I really have no idea what that means and hold the intelligence of bikers in the highest esteem of course. At any rate, I’m quite accustomed to them now and have no particular desire to try contacts.
Been wearing them for the past 4 years or so, mostly just at work to reduce eyestrain from too much computer stuff. They’re starting to be helpful for reading, though, but I can get along fine most of the time without them. My uncle the optician, who made my first pair, laughed his butt off, saying “you call THAT a prescription?” but hey, if it makes the difference between having my eyes sting like crazy at the end of the day, and not, I’ll do it in a heartbeat.
I’ve got 2 old pairs and one brand-new pair.