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.

[alto2.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any better, I took my contacts out tonight before making sure I knew where my glasses were. Fortunately, I did find them inside the house, in a relatively logical place, but it was none of the first three places I looked, and I thought I was going to have to go out and look around the car half-blind (and before you ask, no, I couldn't just put the lenses back in, because they're in a hydrogen peroxide solution that needs six hours to neutralize so it doesn't burn your eyes). Oops!!

I hope you've got your specs fixed by now!