Reading glasses, a funny story
So I turned 31 years old this year and at my annual eye exam, turns out, all of a sudden, I need reading glasses. The optometrist said "good news! You're now far-sighted! Isn't that cool? It's like a superpower!" And I said, "no, because those terms are misnomers. You're telling me I'm far-sighted and near-sighted, when in truth I'm blind as a bat!" Let's call it what it is, right.
So I've been trying to be an complying patient by wearing them whenever I use the computer or when I'm grading papers. I told a coworker, "but these reading glasses just make me feel so old!" Isn't this something that plaques a 60-year old women or something?!
The other day, I was at school grading papers, when a student came up to me and handed me a pair of black-rimmed glasses that they had found. I told them I'd take it to the "Lost & Found" box in the Main Office, went back to grading, and at the end of the period, packed up, and went about my way. I stopped by the Main Office during lunch, filled out an announcement sheet (it's a form that, when approved, puts a message on every TV in every room; normally it conveys the date and time, upcoming club meetings, etc.) that basically said "Found! Pair of black glasses! Claim in Office". I dropped off the glasses, and went about my day.
Two days later, time to grade again; I whip out my reading glasses, put them on--- they feel funny. Vision's real blurry, take them off, look at them, clean them really well, and put them back on. Something's not right. Coworker I was talking to looks at me and says "wait, those aren't your glasses".
Turns out I had turned my OWN pair of glasses in to the Office. Imagine me then going to the Office and explaining that to the secretaries (who laughed hysterically at me). Who then told me a student had actually come in, looking for her glasses; saw mine and said "those aren't mine, oh well". And of course now I had to fill out another announcement sheet to explain that the student should come back, because there was now a NEW pair of black glasses in the office.
"Oh hon," my coworker said, "getting reading glasses isn't a sign that you're old. Forgetting which pair of glasses is yours? THAT is a sign that you're old."
So I've been trying to be an complying patient by wearing them whenever I use the computer or when I'm grading papers. I told a coworker, "but these reading glasses just make me feel so old!" Isn't this something that plaques a 60-year old women or something?!
The other day, I was at school grading papers, when a student came up to me and handed me a pair of black-rimmed glasses that they had found. I told them I'd take it to the "Lost & Found" box in the Main Office, went back to grading, and at the end of the period, packed up, and went about my way. I stopped by the Main Office during lunch, filled out an announcement sheet (it's a form that, when approved, puts a message on every TV in every room; normally it conveys the date and time, upcoming club meetings, etc.) that basically said "Found! Pair of black glasses! Claim in Office". I dropped off the glasses, and went about my day.
Two days later, time to grade again; I whip out my reading glasses, put them on--- they feel funny. Vision's real blurry, take them off, look at them, clean them really well, and put them back on. Something's not right. Coworker I was talking to looks at me and says "wait, those aren't your glasses".
Turns out I had turned my OWN pair of glasses in to the Office. Imagine me then going to the Office and explaining that to the secretaries (who laughed hysterically at me). Who then told me a student had actually come in, looking for her glasses; saw mine and said "those aren't mine, oh well". And of course now I had to fill out another announcement sheet to explain that the student should come back, because there was now a NEW pair of black glasses in the office.
"Oh hon," my coworker said, "getting reading glasses isn't a sign that you're old. Forgetting which pair of glasses is yours? THAT is a sign that you're old."