At Thanksgiving, or a birthdayan uncle muttering I can’t read thiswould borrow my grandmother’s glassesor my mother would wear his to readmenus, rules of the game. I thoughtall those adults had the same afflictionof the eyes. It must run in families.Now I wear cheaters to read their emails.
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Indeed.. those glasses that are always lost too.. and now it's worse since we have to read the smartphones too..
ReplyDeleteHi Marian ~~ welcome to the crowd. You did a good job of memory jogging, I had forgotten about calling the glasses 'cheaters'. I wear them too.
ReplyDeleteMy first thought here, before I got to the bottom, was joke about the older couple eating at McDonald's. They shared a meal and the false teeth. :)
Now that I remember the joke, it comes to mind, I may write a story (poem ??) for posting here.
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I love this. Ironically, both of my parents have had cataract surgery so they no longer need glasses to read, but I do!
ReplyDeleteI remember those days when I believed aging only happened to old people.
ReplyDeleteHa, my husband does that but soon it won't be enough (actually it isn't now but he won't give in). Nice reflection on aging.
ReplyDeleteOut of eye-glasses and one is helpless! Wonderful write Marian!
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haha!! glasses... wheni was a kid i was jealous of my school friends who had glasses... coz teacher told us they had four eyes while we had only 2 !! :(
ReplyDeleteI resisted it until I couldn't stretch my arms out any further.
ReplyDeleteI've worn glasses since I was 12, but nobody ever asked to borrow mine. I did wonder what was going on with all the eyeglass-swapping amongst the ancestors, however. And old people holding a menu at arm's length—very confusing to a nearsighted youngster.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed this, Marian.
Luv, K
the cycle of life... but you're honest
ReplyDeleteHa! In a few words this creates a scene we all know so well. Very charming. (Unfortunately, I am both nearsighted and far-sighted--meaning I can 't see at all--awful.) k.
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ReplyDeleteYep! I'm getting there, too.
ReplyDeleteOh so true! Wearing my readers now ~ with a huge smile on my face!
ReplyDeleteI have the "no-line" (aka progressive) bifocals. Took me a while to adjust but I love them. I laughed at "same affliction" ha ha
ReplyDeletedamn my old eyes - did you give me yours? ~
ReplyDelete"Cheaters" - what a chrysalis of a noun. The falsies of sight, the badge of age that we must keep adding too in order to see normal.
ReplyDeletei never called them cheaters or even heard that sage until i was ready to use them myself... so odd. as if magnification resulting in being able to read is some kind of personality defect. :)
ReplyDeleteI love the tone to this...the way it's written is warm, inviting, familial....something so easy to relate to.
ReplyDeletethanks... glad you think so. thanks for visiting.
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