Glasses half empty
Cats: typist & typewriter|Yesterday, I ran over my glasses.
I didn’t hear the sound over the car’s motor, but I can imagine it went something like this.
“Crrrrr-uuuunch.”
They must have fallen out of my purse when unloading from a family trip to the cottage. When I nipped out for some onions later in the day, I must have run them down.
One lens is smashed to bits, the frame bent to oblivion. The other is relatively unscathed – for what it’s worth.
These babies had three corrections – long, medium, short distance (yes, I’m a complicated typist) – and a further grind so the transition from correction to correction would not make me feel seasick.
All of this = $800 worth of eye wear.
Crushed under the tire of a car.
Argh. And now I can’t see properly. Double Argh.
So now the question is: are the Typist’s glasses half empty or half full?
You tell me.
October 13th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
I don’t know the answer to your question, but it’s too bad your fuel tank wasn’t completely empty.
October 13th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Insured glasses are always full.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
I would say 3/4 empty.
I feel for you, having once pulled a pallet of knapsacks over my reading glasses. But they were just readers and Sharon the Glasses Place Goddess fixed the arm for me.
October 14th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Head to the dollar store to get the short covered until the middle and long are.
October 14th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Depending on where you purchased them, as long as you have all the parts and bits and pieces, they may replace them. Maybe your home insurance would cover them!
That sucks — I drove over my cell phone this past summer, obviously not as bad as your glasses but it still stinks.