Wednesday, August 13th, 2008...11:49 am
#102: Only One Pair of Glasses At A Time, Please
This tip comes from my pal Amy Edelman, author of Manless in Montclair, a wonderful memoir novel about a widow in the suburbs in search of a new husband. Amy’s advice: Don’t wear more than one pair of glasses at a time.
The young among you may say, Duh! But I sense you over-45s out there nodding sheepishly. You’ve done it, haven’t you? There you were sitting by the pool, reading the paper, needing to see, but blinded by the glare. And so you slipped on your reading glasses. And then you slipped on your sunglasses over them.
Maybe you thought nobody would notice. But Amy did. And she ran and told me. And now you’re busted. The solution? These ultra-mega-cool reading sunglasses, or these “sunglass bifocals.” Except note to copywriter: Rethink the word bifocals.
I have Varilux prescription sunglasses. No double glasses for me!
Busted.
lasik.
Ooops, doesn’t work, Amelia, because you still have to wear reading glasses.
It’s really embarrassing if you’ve been caught wearing three, as I have. Believe me when I tell you, that really sucks. Having my eyesight head south went I hit forty, is in the top 3 of the things I hate most about getting older.