It's official

[gwyn]

Well, I am now officially old. I had to go out at lunch to buy reading glasses. I mean... feh! Reading glasses! How demoralizing.

But I can't see anything when I wear my contacts anymore, the new office space has really wrecked them and they're blurry and impossible to see with by the end of the day. Even in the morning, I can't read the small-print PDF proofs or the measure lines on the pica rulers -- never mind the legalese on documents in 5-1/2 pt. type. So it's become a necessity somehow.

A necessity that makes me freaking old. I can't wear my glasses all day because they give me headaches, but I can't see with my contacts, so I'm doomed either way. And next they'll make me get bifocals on my glasses.

Might as well get out the shawl and the cane.

Comments

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Nah, you're not ready to board the geezer bus yet *g* -- not if you just need one pair to handle 5-1/2 pt type. I now have three pairs of glasses, of different strengths, for different situations, as well as my contacts which are only good for distance viewing. But I resist bifocals! They shall jam bifocals on my cold dead face!

Just tell yourself how much more life wisdom you have than those shallow young things with their keen vision and their resilient knees and their smooth supple flesh and their ability to stay up all night and work the next day and ... oh never mind. Life wisdom, that's what matters.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah... life wisdom. That's the ticket... ;-)

[bientot.livejournal.com]

Speaking as a ROF*, having had my cataract surgery, I'm now saving up for TRIfocals. Oy.


*Really Old Fan

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

TRI-focals!? I didn't even know they made those kinds of things! Criminy. Well, okay, that makes me feel better about the reading glasses, for sure.