Who broke my reading specs?????!!!!!!!

by Gill 8 Replies latest jw friends

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  Gill

  Yesterday, I found my beloved reading glasses broken. Someone had broken one of the 'handlebars' off, you know the thing that goes over your ears!

  I loved these reading glasses! When I put them on, I didn't look like me! I looked like Harry Potter, or a Grandma! If I put my reading glasses on and an old mac, no one would give me a second glance as I walked down the street!

  Anyway, recently, the family have been complaining and saying I must get some up to date reading specs! Why can't they mind their own business!?

  I nipped into the opticians yesterday and asked if they could fix my beloved specs! They're prescription reading glasses as I have funny eyes so I can't just pick up any pair of specs. The glamourous young woman behind the desk looked at my specs and gave them a derisory smirk before taking them round the back and coming back to announce that 'nobody makes this 'style' anymore!'

  So, I have to go back next week and see about a 'new' set of frames and they'll see if they can cut these lenses to fit!

  BUGGER!

  So here I sit, with one of my handle bars missing and me specs sat lop sidded on my face!

  Next week, I lose my disguise!

  However, I did see a pair of Harry Potter syle spec frames in the local charity shop! I have been warned that in NO Circumstances am I to buy them!

  Oh well! Nothing stays the same and I'll have to say goodbye to my old specs!

  However!!! If I ever find who it was who broke them........ I'll say no more!
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  katiekitten

  You broke em you dozy bugger.

  You were wandering round looking for your cool Harry Potter specs, you couldnt find em. You sat down like a big lump in the armchair, and the glasses were under your rump. You couldnt see em because you didnt have your specs on. Catch 22 my friend.

  Actually, I empathise. Ive lost the only pair of cool specs ive got. All my others make me look like Olive from "On the Buses".
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  greendawn

  You are very attached to your reading glasses, I tend to change my glasses every four or five years. At home I use plastic lenses because they are very light and comfortable but they tend to get scratched no matter how careful you are with them. Outside I use glass photochromic lenses. There are interesting developments in optics technology as the refractive index of lenses gets higher which means they can be made thinner and lighter while maintaining the same power.
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  fullofdoubtnow

  Oh Gill, it's like saying goodbye to an old friend isn't it? I wear glasses to read, but not at other times, whereas Trev has to wear his all the time. He used to have an old pair, ( he's probably got them hidden away somewhere and wears them when I'm not in) that are held together with sellotape, and he hated to stop wearing them, but I persuaded him to invest in something more modern, so he had a pair of Ted Baker specs a few months ago. I think he looks much better, but he complained for weeks that they were uncomfortable, old - fashioned bugger him!
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  Clam

  Gill this is now my mental image of you

  LOL @ Olive from On the Buses
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  Moomin

  Why would you enjoy wearing something that makes you look like Harry Potter or an old woman?
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  Gill

  Katie - Don't say that! I can't have broken my specs!!

  Greendawn - You specs sound great! But I didn't want to buy a new pair of specs! I enjoyed my Columbo disguise!!!

  Fullofdoubtnow - My sympathies to Trev! In fact, I'm going hunting for the sellotape right now!!

  Clam -

  Moomin - 'Men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses!' (Especially very old fashioned HP glasses and wearing an old mac!) Summer is a pain in the arse to me! Too hot to wear me old mac and when I finally found some sunglasses like my reading specs some swine either hid them or threw them away!!
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  katiekitten

  Hey theres nothing wrong with glasses held together by sticky tape. As well as being an excellent form of contraception, they were standard NHS issue for one kid in every class in the UK throughout the 1970's.
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  fullofdoubtnow

  My sympathies to Trev! In fact, I'm going hunting for the sellotape right now!!

  Gill, don't tell him that, he'll want to start wearing them in public again, and he really does look much better without them, honest. I think I'll have a good look round to see if I can find them, I'm sure he's got them stashed somewhere.