Only for those of us who wear glasses

[Madasafish]

I am long sighted so not wearing glasses is only a problem when working closeup.

Welding - with a safety mask - can be fun.. there is not really room for glasses underneath and without them I cannot see close enough to strike an arc when electric welding.

[OllieMartin]

Welding - with a safety mask - can be fun.. there is not really room for glasses underneath and without them I cannot see close enough to strike an arc when electric welding.

You probably weld better than my dad still!

[Nicos]

I'm just at the stage where I need to think seriously about wearing them more often.
I have driving glasses- but they make me feel car sick. If I drive without them I'm fine- just miss street signsIf I'm a passenger- I have to wear them as i feel car sick without them!!

I wear pound shop glasses for reading- but I'm OK here on the laptop.

What shouldn't I do without them??...urm well food shopping cos I can't read the labels nor read what's on each isle!!

So it's 2 pairs I need to carry with me in my bag whenever I leave the house

Interestingly the house doesn't look so dusty when I'm not wearing them!!!

How on earth do peeps cope with plucking eyebrows...that's what I'm starting to struggle with!

[Snadger]

You probably weld better than my dad still!

I once put a perfect run of weld along the junction of a thick plate of steel and a wooden block! Bird droppings springs to mind for most of my welding.
I shave without my gigs cos they steam up. When I come out the bathroom and put my gigs back on I have to dry shave the bits I've missed in front of the living room wall mirror! Ouch!

[OllieMartin]

I shave without my gigs cos they steam up. When I come out the bathroom and put my gigs back on I have to dry shave the bits I've missed in front of the living room wall mirror! Ouch!

My dad calls them "gigs", not sure where it comes from, but I like the word.

[bobleponge]

I long ago gave up the shaving in front of the mirror business for similar reasons, (always showered and shaved before putting my eyes in) and just shave in the shower. I know where my face is and can feel with my fingers to see if I've missed any bits, and the stubble is a lot easier to take off too.
Definitely better than dry scraping missed bits off. Ouch indeed!!

[JanieB]

I've got one long-sighted eye and one short-sighted eye, but only marginally so. I wear glasses for reading, especially in the winter when the light is bad. Oh, and always for reading the tube map in my diary. Why do they make it so small.

[OllieMartin]

I've got one long-sighted eye and one short-sighted eye, but only marginally so. I wear glasses for reading, especially in the winter when the light is bad. Oh, and always for reading the tube map in my diary. Why do they make it so small.

When my ex was asked if she was long-sighted or short-sighted she always used to reply "both" because she couldn't see things close up or at distance. I spent some time explaining that it was based on whether the focal point of the light entering your eye was in front or behind your retina. She continued to answer "both" and I'd get more and more infuriated with her.

One day I was training a group of people, and one of the girls was asked if she was long-sighted or short-sighted, she replied "both". I went on a 5 minute tirade about how you couldn't be both, explaining about focal points and retinas etc.
When I'd finished she said, "well my right eye is long-sighted and my left eye is short-sighted".
I ate a large slice of humble pie!

[bluemoon]

A few nights ago I left my reading specs on to eat instead of swapping them for the general purpose ones, I only realized when OH asked why I was trying to spear and eat peas individually.... it was because they looked the size of golf balls.

[Brengirl]

I take my glasses off when I go to bed. In the morning I can't find my glasses without my glasses.

[jackie j]

I wear mine all the time only take them off to go to bed, I never used to wear glasses but once I hit fifty I couldnt see to do my job so got reading glasses then it all went downhill, and now I dont feel right if I havent got them on. Course when I fell over on Friday I bent them but luckily I managed to get them repaired at no cost to me, see I went to specsavers !!!!!

[HayleyB]

I cut off a Matt (carpet) from Alf's fur (20yr old senile cat) without my reading glasses, the vet bill hurt

[janeyo]

OH gets so fed up with me getting him to hunt the galsses as I can't see where I've put them...
The absolute WORST is when I am in the bath and can see there is a beastie on the wall or floor, but squinting doesn't help it to focus and then I finally get my glasses on and it's a huge horrible spider... makes me wish I hadn't put them on lol

[Buleste]

I'm so short sighted I can't see my nose without my glasses let alone anything else. It's more of a case of what I do with them on that I shouldn't (swimming, sleeping, eye tests etc.)

[binley100]

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How on earth do peeps cope with plucking eyebrows...that's what I'm starting to struggle with!

A magnifying mirror and a good light!