The cruelest irony of all...

[icepixie]

...is when a person who wears glasses needs to repair part of his or her set of spectacles.

(I have somehow lost the screw that holds in one of the nosepads on my current pair. I attempted to substitute a screw from my older pair--using only one, squinted eye, because the astigmatism in my left eye makes it basically useless for close work without my glasses--but apparently it's a different size. Now I am using duct tape until I can make it somewhere that sells such items, hopefully tomorrow after work at the journal.)

WOE.

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[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

Bwahahhaaha schadenfreude! I am immune to this particular brand of irony because I have PERFECTLY SUPER-SHARP VISION - within five inches of my eyeballs. By twelve inches it's a big ol' World Of Smudge, but at least I can fix my own glasses. Thank you for making me feel better about my blindness. ;)

Why is it that not all glasses screws are the same size? Would that be so difficult, glasses-makers of the world? A little bit of standardization would be lovely, because then we would not have to buy FIVE JILLION REPAIR KITS trying to find the right sort of screw/nosepad. Alas.

[icepixie]

I have PERFECTLY SUPER-SHARP VISION - within five inches of my eyeballs.

Heh. That's pretty much what it's like for my right eye. My left eye has a sweet spot between where the myopia and astigmatism blur things up in their own unique ways. It is exactly an inch beyond the clear range of my right eye.

Binocular vision FAIL.

Thank you for making me feel better about my blindness. ;)

You are very welcome. ;)

A little bit of standardization would be lovely

Yes. Yes, it would. Or at least screws that didn't fall out. That would be good too.

I'm planning to just go to an eyeglasses chain and hit them up for a properly-fitting screw rather than fool around with kits and whatnot. God only knows how many tries that would take.

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

Binocular vision FAIL.

Wow. Aren't corrective lenses amazing?

I'm planning to just go to an eyeglasses chain and hit them up for a properly-fitting screw rather than fool around with kits and whatnot.

Ummmm yeah. That excellent idea occurred to me *after* I'd spent ages trying to find various whatnots. (Whatsnot?)

[icepixie]

Wow. Aren't corrective lenses amazing?

Indeed they are.

Ummmm yeah. That excellent idea occurred to me *after* I'd spent ages trying to find various whatnots. (Whatsnot?)

Whatsnotseseses?

I went this morning, and even though I'd never been there before, they gave me the screw and screwed the nosepad back in for free! Yay customer service!