I’ve recently joined the Four Eyes Club. I’m supposed to wear my glasses all the time, but I mostly find them annoying. I’m perfectly good to go in any situation except when I’m reading or watching a DVD with subtitles. (They’re trifocals.) So there is really no problem except when I go to certain places like restaurants. The dim lighting and small print are sometimes a nuisance, so I should probably take them along.
But where could I carry them, other than on my face? Not many of my shirts have breast pockets. Putting them in my pants pockets seems like a really bad idea – either they’ll get bent, or if I use a glasses case, I’ll have a big bulge in my pants where I don’t really want one. I don’t have a backpack or fanny pack. I obviously don’t carry a purse. I only wear a coat for part of the year.
Seriously – even though I do carry a purse, I usually have a pair of glasses either on top of my head or tucked into the neck of my shirt. I’m female, but would imagine you could get away with either without looking too unmanly.
Thanks. I suppose I could try the shirt neck thing.
Chain around the neck? How very librarian! I did see one character in a movie pull off that look, but I think it was because he had enough macho to make it work.
Example:
So and so can’t can’t read the small print anymore.
So and so can’t remember there 3rd grade teacher’s name.
It’s an age you picked at which you think it’s common for an aging problem to manifest and you dismiss the problem in general conversations where you don’t want to talk about everybody’s problems. Anybody past that age is just suffering an age related decline. When you hit that age one mark against yourself and you set a new age mark.
If it confusing still I can’t help it as I’ve passed a few of these aging marks.
The OP asked for advice from Dopers older than her? him? and I’m not.
But you know what? I don’t care. I’m posting this advice here anyway. For various reasons, I think it applies more to “middle-aged folks” than to “young’uns,” so it belongs here.
It’s a two-parter:
Stop yourself and think very, very hard before you say/think the word “should,” as in “He should X” or “She shouldn’t Y.”
Stop yourself and think very, very hard before you say/think the phrase “how can I get X to do/not do Y?”
Rare is the time when you should go ahead with your original thought. Very rare. If you can remove both from your vocabulary entirely, the world will be a better place for it.
For various reasons, I think it applies more to “middle-aged folks” than to “young’uns,” so it belongs here.