What was the deal with monocles?

Pince nez! Pince! Not pierce!

I suspect your problem is with the “for a day or so” rather than the one good eye. I use monocular contact lenses - one for distance and one for close work (I am very short sighted in both eyes and now I have presbyopia :smack: ). I was warned about possible problems with depth perception while wearing the lenses but, after a little, while I have had no problem. As noted by minor7flat5 there are plenty of other clues used when building up a 3-D view of the world.

Ever since I started getting nearsighted, at age 12, I have had different vision in each eye. At first, my right eye was fine, and my left got nearsighted. Later on, I developed astigmatism in my left eye, but the right is still just nearsighted.

My depth perception is not very good, and I can’t see those “Magic Eye” pictures.

A pince-nez can’t be used used by mounting it in a piercing. I meant what I said. I await the day I see it in person. Should I have said in a person?

The only reason I opened this thread was to see when the first Colonel Klink reference came along. And I’m sure the spelling was just a pun of some kind. :wink:

Dorothy Sayers’ fictional character Lord Peter Wimsey famously wears a monocle. According to the trivia for the BBC production of Strong Poison:

Is this a variant of the old saying, “Blind in one eye and can’t see out the other?” :smack:

Everyone has a dominant eye, either left or right, which they subconsciously use to carry most of the visual workload.

As one grows older, a reading monocle for that dominant eye is an option.