Losing Glasses: Dud Or Dud?

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This is the second time I've done this now. And THis time it was whilwe drunk on New Year's Eve.

― xavier (xave), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:02 (eighteen years ago)

ugh... worst nightmare

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:08 (eighteen years ago)

besides holocaust 2

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:08 (eighteen years ago)

I fell downhill skiing and popped out a lens, once. Still had the frames, but no lens for my worst eye. Worst part: it was at night on an only partially lit hill, and the small amount of light there was made shadows out of every dip and track in the snow, all the way down. We had to spread out in a line and scan the surface a few feet at a time but DID finally find the bastard. That's how you spell "relief", motherfuckers.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

Deeply dud. ALWAYS HAVE BACKUP.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:11 (eighteen years ago)

At that age my eyes were changing every year, so the only possible "back-up" would be poor, at best. And even that was about four hours away by car.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:13 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i need to fix me up with a backup.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:13 (eighteen years ago)

Thankfully my prescription hasn't changed in a long while now, which is nice. Actually will be going in for my annual checkup in a few weeks.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:15 (eighteen years ago)

You don't know the meaning of panic till you've been scrabbling about in a beach in the pitch black for a pair of glasses you've somehow managed to bury whilst on shrooms.

― chap (chap), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

...this is true.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:21 (eighteen years ago)

O the huge scratches!

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:21 (eighteen years ago)

i have a 2 room apt and somehow at least once a month have found myself wandering aimlessly in the morning for up to a half hour looking for my pair. now i have two with the same prescription and i can always find at least one of them.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

I keep doing this when I get pissed. How I have no idea. I suspect delinquent youths steal them when I fall asleep on the nightbus.

I got those daily contact lenses to avoid this problem but I have to remember to put them in if I'm out on the piss!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 6 January 2007 02:42 (eighteen years ago)

i waited like 8 years between checkups once and my doctor was appalled. i guess for good reason

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 6 January 2007 02:45 (eighteen years ago)

At least you didn't wait almost a decade between dental visits like some people I know.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 January 2007 02:45 (eighteen years ago)

O man slocki otm, worst nightmare. In fact my best friend knows this, and thinks it HIY-larious to nick my frames sometimes and wave them at arms length while I panic. Hm.

Once I was at a Meanies gig, and this guy fuckin SLAMMED into me from behind so hard, my glasses flew right off my face in the moshpit. By some miracle i was quick enough to catch them before they landed and got pulverised. Being half-blind in a mosh would not have been good fun.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 6 January 2007 02:47 (eighteen years ago)

It sucks because you can't look for them since you can't see without them.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Saturday, 6 January 2007 03:01 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't go to the dentist for 9 years but by some miracle I only needed 1 filling!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 6 January 2007 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

see i only use mine for reading (which i do a LOT and of course my job depends on it), and that includes computer and whatever. but the point is they're not on all the time and i am very good at misplacing anything that isn't physically attached to my body.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 6 January 2007 03:56 (eighteen years ago)

also i need weird lenses, which means to make new ones takes at least a week.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 6 January 2007 03:56 (eighteen years ago)

once i was sitting in a study lounge at college and the career guy was there waiting for people to ask him questions. he was a fat, goofy guy. he was reading and put his glasses down and i saw them fall off the table and when he went to put them back on he was so blind that he couldn't find them and i just watched him for like 20 minutes looking under every chair including the one that was hiding the glasses and he couldn't find them. it was mean. i finally told him where they were when i got up to leave :(

― nazi bikini (harbl), Saturday, 6 January 2007 03:58 (eighteen years ago)

Serious dud. Can't see without them. Hello, astigmatisms!

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Saturday, 6 January 2007 04:45 (eighteen years ago)

I somehow once lost half of a pair of prescription sunspecs by threading the earpiece through a button of my shirt to keep them while I wore my regular specs. They broke at the nosepiece without my noticing and left me with a dark-grey tinted monocle (and earpiece.)

The lesson here is: don't be a dumbass, use a glasses case and put it somewhere safe.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 6 January 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.fredvelmadaphne.homestead.com/files/crawlnoglass.JPG

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

I bit my boyfriend's glasses off his face once when we were shrooming. Er. Anyway, he said his trip was ruined bcz he couldn't SEE the visuals without his glasses! Such a thing never occurred to me, that one would need their glasses to trip properly. Of course selfish me, I kept my glasses on the whole time until I passed out on the floor and thought I'd permanently melded with an endless hyper-dodecahedron pattern of lower-case letters k, during which I apparently peed my pants. Er.

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

So you're saying the image of Velma you're posting isn't a self-portrait.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

Best way to break a pair of glasses - drop-kick volleyball at unsuspecting target, miss completely, ball rebounds off wall and smashes kicker in face.

Believe me, I've been there.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

Actually that Velma image pretty much is, 'cept I don't have a sweet orange cowlneck sweater. I went all last semester with my face four inches away from monitors, my art projects, notes, etc. It started hurting my back, slouching 4 inches away from the drawings on my desk just to see them. Once I got my glasses fixed, my dog ate them, so I have a new pair now. FINALLY.

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:59 (eighteen years ago)

I've broken about 3 pairs of specs in bike accidents too. Ach lieber! Mein Gesicht! Meine Brille!

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 6 January 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

It is pretty sweet Wacom doodling w/your face close enough to the monitor to fog it up, tho.

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 6 January 2007 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway, he said his trip was ruined bcz he couldn't SEE the visuals without his glasses! Such a thing never occurred to me

Me either! I always have some sort of lens on as I can only see about an inch in front of my face w/o visual aide.

Is it "aid" or "aide"? I just had my first helping of moonshine EVER. Nothing makes sense right now. Yay, Tennessee!

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Saturday, 6 January 2007 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Broken glasses are some fucking bullshit.

― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 09:27 (seventeen years ago)

I spontaneously dived off a pedalo once with my glasses and when I came up and couldn't find them, angrily accused everyone of stealing them.

I also walked into a pub once only to see my glasses next to the whisky bottles above the bar.

― GamalielRatsey, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 09:37 (seventeen years ago)

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