Reading glasses rant! Why I now prefer a monocle

[Jody]

My partner is an optician and advises people who we know to buy cheap ready readers as they are just magnifying glasses.

You can usually pick them up for 50p-£1 a pair so no need to fret if they get lost/scratched

 

[Drago]

They've not been relabelled s an optometrist then?

 

[Profpointy]

The talk of Larry Grayson brings to mind that sculpture of A Roman soldier

 

[briantrumpet]

I buy reading glasses almost in bulk as I lose them/sit on them. The cheap ones in tubes are fine.

e.g https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/294321433531?_skw=reading+glasses+tube&itmmeta=01JQ6JZZ6P2GRF4AJAY12ZTXEF

I also am a trendsetter in using pince-nez - e.g. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315707129253?_skw=pince+nez&itmmeta=01JQ6K5KM5FY98GZGRGMW2J46H

... I've got a pair glued to my mobile phone case, so I can always read the phone if I'm out and don't have anything else.

 

[Badger_Boom]

The talk of Larry Grayson brings to mind that sculpture of A Roman soldier

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Quod gay diem!

 

[stephec]

The talk of Larry Grayson brings to mind that sculpture of A Roman soldier

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Ooohhh Everard, look at the muck on that!

 

[Alex321]

I buy reading glasses almost in bulk as I lose them/sit on them. The cheap ones in tubes are fine.

e.g https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/294321433531?_skw=reading+glasses+tube&itmmeta=01JQ6JZZ6P2GRF4AJAY12ZTXEF

I also am a trendsetter in using pince-nez - e.g. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315707129253?_skw=pince+nez&itmmeta=01JQ6K5KM5FY98GZGRGMW2J46H

... I've got a pair glued to my mobile phone case, so I can always read the phone if I'm out and don't have anything else.

Those aren't cheap - though the tubes are a bonus.

I get mine from poundstretcher or similar, usually £1.50 per pair, sometimes even £1. Normally buying about 5 pairs at once. Then I have pairs lying around in several different rooms, plus the car and the office.

 

[Moon bunny]

I thought monocle meant having only one (ahem) gentleman’s part.

 

[seanoconn]

My partner is an optician and advises people who we know to buy cheap ready readers as they are just magnifying glasses.

You can usually pick them up for 50p-£1 a pair so no need to fret if they get lost/scratched

I’ve got various cheap pairs from Amazon scattered around different rooms of the house, car, at work. So I don’t have to constantly look for them. I’ve sat on plenty and haven’t managed to break a pair yet. Pretty flexible.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Some years ago (actually rather a lot of years) a friend of mine posted a picture with the caption "is it an age thing?" of her partner's reading glasses neatly put away ... in the fridge.

 

[All uphill]

You lot losing and scratching your glasses.

I've had glasses since I was six; it was drilled into me that they were to be guarded with my life. Despite working on drilling rigs, riding bikes and loads more, I've never lost or damaged a pair.

The power of parental injunctions.

 

[Alex321]

You lot losing and scratching your glasses.

I've had glasses since I was six; it was drilled into me that they were to be guarded with my life. Despite working on drilling rigs, riding bikes and loads more, I've never lost or damaged a pair.

The power of parental injunctions.

Reading glasses are different to distance glasses. You don't wear them all the time - I had distance glasses when I was young, switched to contact lenses at 18, and even as a teenager, never lost a pair, only broke one or two.

But with reading glasses, only needed for close up sight, I have many pairs as much so that there is always a pair handy whenever I might need them as for breaking/losing them.

So a pair in the living room, a pair in the study (by the computer), a pair in my bedroom, a pair in the workshop, a pair in my man-bag, a pair in the car, a pair in the campervan, a pair in my workplace, and a pair in my bike saddlebag.

 

[Dogtrousers]

You lot losing and scratching your glasses.

I've had glasses since I was six; it was drilled into me that they were to be guarded with my life. Despite working on drilling rigs, riding bikes and loads more, I've never lost or damaged a pair.

The power of parental injunctions.

A few years ago I crashed my bike. The only thought in my mind as I hit the tarmac was "oh no, these are new glasses. Please don't let them be broken."

As it turned out: Bike - wrecked. Me - bashed up but basically OK. Glasses - totally unscathed. Phew.

 

[lazybloke]

Reading glasses are different to distance glasses. You don't wear them all the time - I had distance glasses when I was young, switched to contact lenses at 18, and even as a teenager, never lost a pair, only broke one or two.

But with reading glasses, only needed for close up sight, I have many pairs as much so that there is always a pair handy whenever I might need them as for breaking/losing them.

So a pair in the living room, a pair in the study (by the computer), a pair in my bedroom, a pair in the workshop, a pair in my man-bag, a pair in the car, a pair in the campervan, a pair in my workplace, and a pair in my bike saddlebag.

Do your mates call you "20 eyes"?

 

[Profpointy]

I thought monocle meant having only one (ahem) gentleman’s part.

In Frank Muir's memoirs he mentioned he'd lost a testicle due to bovine tuberculosis. Years later after a risque remark a lady colleague commented "Frank, you're diabolical", and he retorted "On the contrary, I'm monobolical"