One pandemic side effect is that I ordered glasses online, something I thought I’d never do. Two pairs. One as much like my old glasses as I could find, the other the same frameless idea that I’ve been wearing forever but with deeper, rounder lenses.
I wore the former until they got caught on a mask I was taking off and the nose pad went flying off somewhere. Was there no glue to it? Okay, you’re done. The other pair looked great on, so, backup pair to the rescue.
Then I got a new prescription.
I still really wanted to keep unnecessary exposure to a minimum, so I went back to that website and ordered a single pair: that bigger rounder type. Same company same glasses same size.
They fell off my face if I looked down. What?
I kept wearing the old ones a couple of months.
I decided this was getting ridiculous and put the new ones on this morning, determined to get used to the new prescription and get that adjustment over with.
Oh. Right. The falling thing.
I took them off and put them end to end with their earlier twin for the first time.
They angle off to nearly 4″ wider by the ends of the temples. They were mediums, not extra larges.
So I tried to very gently bend them towards sanity, and succeeded enough to keep them from being an overt hazard, but after a few hours one of the nose pads hurt.
They need adjustment. Badly. They need someone who knows what they’re doing.
My dilemma is, that’s part of what you pay for when you buy them in a store and I didn’t and nobody owes me anything, except the online place, and who knows how long they’d sit in transit going back and forth or how they’d fare–after all, they came in a case but there was no padding inside that case in the first place and maybe that’s how we got here.
So a shout-out to the local opticians and a thank you for what they do and I won’t do online again.
Just pretty please bring frameless types back for those of us looking for them?