How to Tell It's Time for Reading Glasses
This does not necessarily mean a trip to the eye doctor, but it wouldn't be a bad idea. If you decide to make it quicker, easier and cheaper though, a trip to the drug store or even the dollar store will do. There should be a rack of reading glasses of different strengths, and it might have a chart on it to help you choose the right strength for your needs. Unless you've been in denial about needing reading glasses for quite some time, chances are you'll need the weakest ones for starters.
When you wake up and smell the wasabi and start wearing reading glasses, you should probably not be putting them on and taking them off every few minutes. This could lead to an excruciating headache and make you wonder if you were better off when you had to ask people to read to you. Save the glasses for when they are definitely needed, and it shouldn't be necessary to take them off to look up at someone's face for a second.
It's a pain in the neck to have to find the glasses every time you need to read anything smaller than you can see without them. Holding what you are trying to read at arm's length works for some, but I've never found it to be effective. Keeping the glasses on a chain around your neck is always an option (remember Grandma's?), or keeping them in a pocket. Be careful not to keep them somewhere they might get broken. Another possibility is to have more than one pair, maybe one for home and one for the office.
If you should happen to need bifocals, rest assured that they no longer have that large stripe across the middle of the lenses. They look just like any other type of glasses. Since they are so different from the glasses you've been wearing, some adjustment to looking around when you are walking might be required. If you remember having to hold onto the banister when you walked down stairs after getting your first pair of glasses, you can imagine what it might be like. It shouldn't take long to adjust, though.
If all you need is the reading glasses, pretty soon it will seem perfectly natural to say when some hands you something to read, "Just a minute while I get my glasses."
Published by Alicia Suenaga
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3 Comments
Post a CommentNever thought many people bought those glasses in the store. Good information in this article.
Interesting topic Alicia. Some people live in denial that they need reading glasses. Those of us who have more serious vision problems wish that we could be so lucky!
In the last paragraph, that should say, "when someone hands you something to read". Yes, I did proofreading without glasses.