Pinheadedness Confirmed

It's been getting progressively harder to see out of my contacts. I was starting to think it was permanently foggy weather. Even inside. So finally I made an appointment for an eye exam and trekked all the way out there for it today.

You have to understand: I am blind. The big letter on the eye chart? I can't see it. Being without corrective eye gear is not an option. And on top of my contacts acquiring the opacity of bread pudding, my glasses are old. Really old. I cannot remember when I got them, but they are old.

I got new contacts--oh look! It's bright out! And there are colors! How neat!

And I picked out glasses. Well, that's not really true. I sat at the little table and the woman who runs things brought me about half a dozen pairs and then told me which ones I was going to get. That was fine with me--she seemed to have good taste and I always get overwhelmed when picking out glasses.

The glasses I ended up with are kiddie glasses. Yes. I have a pinhead. We knew this all along, of course, but now it's confirmed. This is great--an official excuse for all my (many) idiocies! And maybe an explanation why glasses never looked right on me before.

Comments

[Cindy]

I remember, as a little girl, the first time I got glasses and could SEE the LEAVES on the trees!!!! This was amazing to me.

You are still YOUNG!!! I know you're in school with "kids" but they ain't got nothin' on ya'!!

Z T O L P B T

Stand back from the 'puter and I bet you can read it!?!?

C

[Girlchild]

That's ok. I can only wear kiddie glasses too. We have big personalities to make up for them. :P

[ckm]

QUICK!! Send me your optomitrist's phone number! That's what I need, someone who will hand me a pair and say, "You are taking these."
I get hysterical when I have to pick out glasses. Solved the cereal boxes problem years ago: stick with oatmeal.
Your Mother

[jeanne]

Oh man, me too! My eye doc laughed when I told him that without my contacts all I saw was a bright spot on the wall, but that the top letter was an E because it is always an E. But now I have new contacts and I can see even some of the little lines!

[Shelley]

OMG. I am so glad there's someone else out there who has to buy teeny glasses! Maybe 10% of adult glasses actually work on me -- the rest are huge.

[Citations]

Yeah, it was ridiculous. She brought me a few pairs of adult glasses to try and they were wider than my head. Not a little wider, a lot wider--and these were the "small" glasses! Crazy. I'm looking forward to having glasses that fit.

And for what I had to pay for those lenses, they ought to make my life better in a tangible and substantial way!

[E. McPan]

I wish I had a small head. Mine is just wide, so a lot of the time glasses don't fit me. I usually have to buy men's sunglasses and even some of those I've broken with my massive temples.