10 Glasses trouble only Glasses wearers can understand
When did you start wearing glasses? I was fifteen when I took that uncool nickname.
I knew my eyes were going bad much earlier than that. I didn’t tell my parents ‘cos glasses are uncool.
When they found me diving straight into the television screen, I was taken for an eye test.
Ugh! Then I got those nicknames nerdy, bookworm. That was just childhood trouble, and now it is an ongoing hassle. Only the glasses wearer can understand the struggle.
Check out the ten daily struggles that I go through. Do you get the same troubles?
#1 Where are my glasses?
Morning cannot start if you do not utter these words. If you live alone, you can yell at the top of your lungs and hope your glasses hear them and rush to you.
I want glasses with Bluetooth installed. Not for attending calls but to search for them. You simply ask Alexa where my glasses and Alexa sends the signals to your glasses. Wait, glasses should come with an alarm too so that you can hear where they are.
#2 Is the mirror foggy or my glasses?
If your eyes are as bad as mine, you might be brushing your teeth with your glasses on. And the funny part, you never know which glasses are foggy. You clean both.
#3 The lights feel too intense.
You always start with cheap prescription glasses with no light adaptive or even anti-reflection layer on them. And every time you step out in the sun, you get the too-bright sun shining over your head. I used to have cheap glasses with only suitable looking frames until recently. Now I have one that will not make me say, “Sun, please don’t come out today.”
#4 Dear, caught in the headlights.
That’s the feeling I get when I am suddenly flashed with too much light. A stupified dazed deer caught up in front of headlights. I just freeze without knowing what to do. Thank goodness, I don’t drive at night.
#5 You are fixing your glasses… almost the whole day.
It becomes a habit to fix your glasses. Even when you are not wearing your glasses, your hands will go up to adjust the imaginary eyeglasses back in place.
Your glasses being ill-fit or your face becoming sweaty is a different matter. Your hands will go up even if you are holding something with both your hands.
#6 You can’t bend down.
My back is fine. I can bend fine. Not as good as gymnasts but enough. It’s just my glasses will be on the floor then.
One time, all my friends were on the balcony pointing at something down the building. I went up all excited and looked down. I never found out what was going on because my glasses took a dive and never came back.
#7 Travelling on the Tube is a challenge
With the rushing crowd, you never know which way your glasses would go. I would be holding my glasses and get in as blind as a bat. I need to be extra careful with the blessing of a short height because the taller crowd can never see you. Please, folks, there are people down too. And with glasses too. Stakes are high.
#8 Four eyes, Six eyes…
You need glasses for seeing clearly in the room, then in the sun. And there are 3D glasses. The first time I saw a 3D movie, I spend the good first half wondering where is the 3D part in it. Call me dumb (For the lack of a better word). 3D glasses cannot be fit on prescription glasses, and I was watching the movie without them.
#9 Bike riding and prescription glasses don’t get along.
It’s painful to wear a helmet over your glasses. They press over your nose and temple. You can bear that uncomfortable feeling if the ride is not long. And when you are done with the trip, you simply pull off the helmet and off comes your glasses with it.
Better you get some perfect fitting sports glasses.
#10 Why do I have zero eye make-up most of the time?
It’s not that glasses hide your eye-makeup. For a nearsighted person, brushing your eyelashes, lining the eyeliner along the contour of the eyes is simply impossible. If your eyesight is as bad as mine (-4.25), you will be putting most of the mascara on the mirror than your lashes.
It will take you almost ten to twenty failed trials every day, and then you go to your office bare-faced.
#11 How many fingers do you see?
Has any of your friends or fiend done this with you? Some annoying friends take the responsibility of handling your eye test and removes your glasses to ask this stupid question. It’s such a cliche, and still, they keep doing it.
#12 Let me get my glasses.
At home, I rarely put on my glasses. I will do all the tasks with instinct. I keep sugar and salt in separate cabinets. No problem over there deciding what is what. But for the most part of the day, my go-to response will be, “lemme get my glasses.”
Wait, that’s 12 instances. Maybe I double counted somewhere. I am a glasses wearer, after all.
