My eyes are very sensitive to light. On marginally sunny days, I am squinting. If I do that for a whole day, I end up with a pretty big headache…
I believe that would be called a “tension” headache.
With this being the case, sunglasses are a very important piece of equipment.
To complicate matters a little, I wear glasses. In the not too distant past, I had regular eyeglasses and a pair of prescription sunglasses. I was always taking one pair off and putting the other pair on. I got fairly adept at changing them quickly but I had to carry both pairs with me nearly constantly. It was a little inconvenient, but it sure beats headaches nearly every day.
Last summer, I complicated my situation further by starting to wear contact lenses. They improved my vision from 20/several hundred to 20/15! However, I had to have reading glasses to read anything closer than across the street!
Now I had regular glasses and prescription sunglasses, contacts, reading glasses and regular sunglasses. I almost needed a murse (a man’s purse)!
The solution to carrying all these optical contraptions came when I lost my prescription sunglasses. I really didn’t want to pay $200 for another pair so I completely changed directions…
I bought a pair of Style Science Suncovers! They fit over my glasses…
That means they are pretty big! The pictures on the Internet try to make them look stylish but if I tell you the truth, I probably look a little like The Fly. But, they do such a great job that I only have to carry one pair with me! I abandoned the regular, ‘stylish’ sunglasses. Besides, I have never been accused of being a fashion hound.
Not too long ago, I put my sunglasses on before going outside for our half hour lunch
My coworker, The Steel Trap (he of “Soup on the Half Grille” fame) “Are you going to do some welding?”
Very funny! They actually do look a little like welder’s glasses. I still laugh at that one.
About a week ago, a driver got mad at me on the freeway and raced up behind me, pulled out his camera phone and snapped my picture. When I relayed the story at work, The Steel Trap quipped, “Well, he probably couldn’t believe that a blind person would be driving a car on the freeway.”
I had to fight back…at least a little.
Last Friday, I responded that my sunglasses were actually cool.
“Cool?”
“Yes, cool.”
“How is that?”
“Will Smith wore a pair just like them in the movie Hancock.”
Yesterday, The Steel Trap came in and contested my assertion…
“Will Smith didn’t wear those glasses in Hancock.”
“He did too.”
“I just watched the movie.”
“Look, I just threw a car out of my way this morning. Don’t tell me they are not the same glasses.”
I temporarily got him.
