I have NO glasses! I\u2019m squinting as I write this; too lazy (or stubborn) to get up and go hunting for one of the six pairs I\u2019ve strategically placed, so I\u2019ll never be without. Not to mention another half-dozen pairs on standby, in a drawer in the kitchen. All of them are the same – 2.00 power, cheap, reading glasses.<\/p>\n
Six pairs scattered around the house so I\u2019ll never be without, yet much of the time I\u2019m glasses-less (a word of my own invention, by necessity). It happens because I take the ones I\u2019m using on a trip \u2013 like when I get up from my office chair to go to the garage to do something that suddenly pops into my head. (Because I have the, \u201cGot to do it now or I\u2019ll forget syndrome.\u201d) I have a pair in the garage, but since I\u2019m carrying a pair on the top of my head, I don\u2019t use the \u201cgarage\u201d glasses. <\/p>\n
Next stop, the kitchen. I set the office glasses down next to the kitchen glasses. Later on, when I go to back to the office, plop down and fumble for glasses on the desk, they aren\u2019t there. Which is why I\u2019m squinting as I write this. My normal scribbles are bad enough. Without glasses, they are completely illegible. <\/p>\n
Eventually every stopping place in the house (or car) will be void of glasses. I\u2019ve taken them someplace and set them down without thinking \u2013 on the washing machine \u2013 in a coat pocket now hanging in the closet or worse, sitting atop my head, unbeknownst to me. Six pairs will be classified MIA, forcing me to bring in the reserves.<\/p>\n
But, the end of this dilemma is at hand. I bought a string necklace thing that I\u2019ve attached to my favorite pair. Now, I have glasses no matter where I go in the house. I swore I\u2019d never use one of these eyeglass necklace things; thinking they were for old fogies. Well, if the shoe fits, wear it. I\u2019m an old fogey, but now one who can read no matter where I am in the house. I won\u2019t wear it in public; I have an image to maintain, tattered as it is. <\/p>\n