I know that horrible feeling of realization. I rode my bike 3 miles to Walmart, did some light shopping, wheeled up to the self-serve cashier, then realized I left my wallet at home. My 6 mile round trip became a 12 mile double-round trip. :-(
I lost my first pair of glasses when I was eight. I thought it was at school but turned out it was still in my room and I just forget to grab them. This was also around the time my Mom started buying glasses cases for me to put my glasses in at night.
Her eyesight is obviously not that terrible if she didn’t realize she took them off. I was legally blind without mine. The minute I would get out of the ocean or pool, I put them immediately on. Assuming I could find my towel.
Finally having glasses was such a relief for me at age 7 that I do not remember ever misplacing them. Same with our oldest. However, I remember frantic mornings helping my middle son search for his before school. Our youngest lost his at Scout camp once and no one could find them. About 2 years later during a skit, a tent was set up in the gymnasium and the glasses rolled out of a flap!
My experience at cub scout camp was worse. I lost some one else’s glasses, while watching them while the other kid went swimming. They got buried in the sand and we couldn’t find them. That was BIG trouble for me.
I’m far sighted, so even at my age, I’m constantly leaving my glasses behind somewhere when I take then off. I don’t notice until I need to read something or see something up close. 8^p
First pair at 12. Never lost them because I wore them every minute of awakeness. I did though have a dental spacer (looked like a tooth with grips on either side) fall on the floor in 8th grade. A horrible boy found it and loudly asked about its owner. Shy geek that I was, I had to claim the thing. So embarrassing.
I could eat a - anyone else remember the horsemeat scandal of the 1950s? Popular joke was man walks into restaurant “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!” and waiter says “You’ve come to the right place!”
When my kids came back from their three weeks of away camps, their glasses were always taped up, and the stories associated with those adventures were worth every penny that replacement frames cost … I wonder if they still remember them now that they have kids of their own… I’ll ask next time.
I am kind of wondering why the grown ups didn’t take care of the glasses for Liz. If they are in charge, and worth their salt, they would have taken care of her glasses. Isn’t she only nine or ten? When I helped with Brownie Scouts and VBS we always were on guard for these kinds of situations. Of course, that would ruin the story line here.
One of the best things about summer camp for me was the bus ride there and back. The laughter, the singing, eating damp sandwiches (flattened in waxed paper bundles), hanging onto best friends who were strangers a week ago—what fun that was. After 65 years, the smell and the sounds of that long bus ride can be conjured up as if it all happened yesterday. Summer camp. It’s a wonderful rite of passage.
I’ve never lost my glasses, which is good, because I’d be very, very lost without them (and probably get headaches, to boot). Breaking my glasses was a fear when I was halfway across the country at college. I had a prescription card in my wallet just in case some tragedy happened—I’d be able to get replacement glasses as quickly as possible. My sister (an optician) also made sure I brought my last pair to college with me to tide me over until getting new ones if necessary.
Templo S.U.D. over 5 years ago
Uh-oh.
Asharah over 5 years ago
Eliizabeth, you are in BIG trouble.
howtheduck over 5 years ago
Patrick may be obnoxious, but so far everything he has said this week was 100% correct.
AllishaDawn over 5 years ago
Oops!
capricorn9th over 5 years ago
Oh boy. Now you don’t want to go home, right, Liz?
Enter.Name.Here over 5 years ago
I know that horrible feeling of realization. I rode my bike 3 miles to Walmart, did some light shopping, wheeled up to the self-serve cashier, then realized I left my wallet at home. My 6 mile round trip became a 12 mile double-round trip. :-(
GirlGeek Premium Member over 5 years ago
I lost my first pair of glasses when I was eight. I thought it was at school but turned out it was still in my room and I just forget to grab them. This was also around the time my Mom started buying glasses cases for me to put my glasses in at night.
Pet over 5 years ago
Been there, done that and was probably about her age when I did it.
Reading this, I actually just felt the same feeling in my gut that is the expression on Elizabeth’s face! Lol!
asrialfeeple over 5 years ago
ruh-roh!
jpayne4040 over 5 years ago
I remember the first time I lost my glasses somewhere. It was a sinking sick feeling.
dlkrueger33 over 5 years ago
Her eyesight is obviously not that terrible if she didn’t realize she took them off. I was legally blind without mine. The minute I would get out of the ocean or pool, I put them immediately on. Assuming I could find my towel.
Shirl Summ Premium Member over 5 years ago
Gulp. eek
Grutzi over 5 years ago
Finally having glasses was such a relief for me at age 7 that I do not remember ever misplacing them. Same with our oldest. However, I remember frantic mornings helping my middle son search for his before school. Our youngest lost his at Scout camp once and no one could find them. About 2 years later during a skit, a tent was set up in the gymnasium and the glasses rolled out of a flap!
HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member over 5 years ago
My experience at cub scout camp was worse. I lost some one else’s glasses, while watching them while the other kid went swimming. They got buried in the sand and we couldn’t find them. That was BIG trouble for me.
USN1977 over 5 years ago
Do they have Howard Johnson’s in Canada? I think they advertised as having 25 or 28 flavors.
dv1093 over 5 years ago
I’m far sighted, so even at my age, I’m constantly leaving my glasses behind somewhere when I take then off. I don’t notice until I need to read something or see something up close. 8^p
tripwire45 over 5 years ago
Uh oh.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 5 years ago
The only way to fight the pain of people stinging you with the truth is to shoot some truth back at them.
BlueCreek Premium Member over 5 years ago
Got my first pair when I was 13. Lost them 2 weeks later at a class picnic.
mclukk over 5 years ago
Losing your retainer triggered that same panic. Oop$!
Satchel,Koko,LDL,Kenny over 5 years ago
First pair at 12. Never lost them because I wore them every minute of awakeness. I did though have a dental spacer (looked like a tooth with grips on either side) fall on the floor in 8th grade. A horrible boy found it and loudly asked about its owner. Shy geek that I was, I had to claim the thing. So embarrassing.
animemom50 over 5 years ago
Oh no! This isn’t good for Elizabeth.
tuslog1964 over 5 years ago
I could eat a - anyone else remember the horsemeat scandal of the 1950s? Popular joke was man walks into restaurant “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!” and waiter says “You’ve come to the right place!”
1JennyJenkins over 5 years ago
When my kids came back from their three weeks of away camps, their glasses were always taped up, and the stories associated with those adventures were worth every penny that replacement frames cost … I wonder if they still remember them now that they have kids of their own… I’ll ask next time.
jppjr over 5 years ago
She’s gonna be in sheep dip about those glasses.
mmmmary over 5 years ago
I am kind of wondering why the grown ups didn’t take care of the glasses for Liz. If they are in charge, and worth their salt, they would have taken care of her glasses. Isn’t she only nine or ten? When I helped with Brownie Scouts and VBS we always were on guard for these kinds of situations. Of course, that would ruin the story line here.
BlitzMcD over 5 years ago
Now we’ll see if she puts his lights out…..
Mumblix Premium Member over 5 years ago
Lynn’s Comments:
One of the best things about summer camp for me was the bus ride there and back. The laughter, the singing, eating damp sandwiches (flattened in waxed paper bundles), hanging onto best friends who were strangers a week ago—what fun that was. After 65 years, the smell and the sounds of that long bus ride can be conjured up as if it all happened yesterday. Summer camp. It’s a wonderful rite of passage.
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Scoutmaster77 over 5 years ago
Uh oh…
Cavenee Lonnie Premium Member over 5 years ago
OH %#@^&!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
Uh oh.
cosman over 5 years ago
In ’77, was with some friends inter tubing down the Chattahoochee river and my glasses fell into the water..
Taracinablue over 5 years ago
I’ve never lost my glasses, which is good, because I’d be very, very lost without them (and probably get headaches, to boot). Breaking my glasses was a fear when I was halfway across the country at college. I had a prescription card in my wallet just in case some tragedy happened—I’d be able to get replacement glasses as quickly as possible. My sister (an optician) also made sure I brought my last pair to college with me to tide me over until getting new ones if necessary.