Originally Posted by
DougRNS
I got mine when I was 19 in 1982. That's very attractive for a college sophomore. It wasn't for reading but some sort of lazy eye thing. My eyes are so lazy they won't even pay attention.
I got my first pair of glasses in 1988, when the newly-Mrs. GeneJockey got tired of being asked to read distant road signs. She asked the eye doc what my vision was like. He said, "He's got astigmatism, which makes everything appear taller and thinner than it really is."
She said, "Does he HAVE TO wear glasses?"
Then, the first week I got them, feeling very self conscious, I went with some friends to a local sandwich shop. One of the sandwich ladies shouts out, "Who's next?", and another sandwich lady says, "The guy with the glasses." So much for "Nobody will even notice."