Pickles by Brian Crane for April 28, 2022

Looks like you’re screwed

And fingers small enough to grab them.

Catch 22. You need glasses to see the screws, but you can’t wear the glasses until the screws are put in.

Old people should have both strong and weak reading glasses. Weak for normal books and strong for special occasions like this.

How we bespectacled people even manage to do such a task when the optometrist’s clinic is either far away or closed for the day? I can so relate to those kits. I even remember my glasses having broke a few hours after my grocery store shift was done for the day and had Dad drive me to the optometrist’s clinic for temporary repairs before the clinic itself closed for the day and before COVID temporarily closed it (had to get my new set through the mail to my place).

The great thing about nearsightedness is that I CAN see those tiny little screws. Except that my presbyopia now means I can’t see that close. Praise to that gizmo that holds a magnifier and a light over the work area…

You have to have 2 pairs of glasses so you wear one pair to fix the other pair. I have one of those kits with the tiny screwdriver.

I saw an ad for these new eye drops that are supposed to improve close up vision (presbyopia, usually affects older folks) i wondered if they really work

Just put your glasses on, then you can see them.

For close up work, it’s often easier to see/focus without glasses on.

NELSON!!

And this is why you keep your previous glasses when you get new ones. Unfortunately for me the old ones are pre-cataract surgery so are worse than none and already donated to the Lions. However, I will follow my own advice with the next pair.

I knew we kept Nelson around for a reason.

First there’s blurred vision, then acute vision, then blurred vision. Little or no hair, then hair, then a lot less hair. With baby fat, then balanced weight [for some], then adult fat. Start short, get tall, then shorter again. And people say life is not circular. :} )

Everybody should have a MagnaVisor™. Cheap like borscht. If you spend a lot of time using one, you’ll want to modify it with a good headband. I used replacement headgear for a Miller welding helmet.

Opal sort of looks like a female version of Mr. Magoo…

Boy does that hit close to home!

Help for that is going to be hard to find unless you can get your daughter to sacrifice some time to help you for a change.

That’s a sesame seed Earl.

Where’s that grandkid when you need him?

Where’s the grandson? He could see to do it.

They are using the hidden cameras in my house again. Seriously, this was the same conversation my wife and I had last week with her glasses.

Used them for years…..on my cassettes!

It is too bad Hermione Granger isn’t around. She is great at fixing glasses.

I guess ya didn’t “see” THAT coming..!!!!

I keep a magnifying glass next to the phone and note pad. Have you ever tried reading the ingredients on the package of any produce, esp. those on small bottles of OTC medications. Impossible sometimes even using the magnifying glass.

the screwdriver should be magnetised

Doesn’t your daughter and son-in-law live next door?

Most kits include a little magnifying glass.

Got that right

And non-arthritic hands too, Earl. With no essential tremors. Get Nelson to make the repairs.

If you don’t have an assortment of magnifying devices around your house, you’re not really old.

Get Tiny Tim!

And nimbler fingers to keep from fumbling the tiny screws.

A screw came out of my glasses while I was on a trip with my parents. We used one of these kits to fix them, and it was a real challenge. Not only was seeing the screw and the hole a challenge, so was holding everything together while assembling. Many screws disappeared in the process. My mom does a lot of quilting, so she ended up being the only one of the three of us with enough close vision and motor control to do the job.

I be going to an optical and not try to repair. For me took me 50 years actually been wearing glasses from early grade school, optical only concentrated on the ear pieces, should adjust the nose piece, my own glasses do not slide down.

Why not just get prescription glasses, put them on before your feet hits the floor in the morning & take off when you turn out the light at bedtime.?? I find it hilarious to watch the faces of people to dumb to where glasses TRY to see without glasses. It’s ridiculous.

Use your smartphone camera to blow up the area around them?

Opal’s nose looks bigger when she’s not wearing her glasses.

“I can’t see! I can’t see!”

“What’s the matter?”

“I got my eyes closed.”

Bingo ! How many have been there, done that ? Get a magnifying glass & tweezers, … or a young person to fix them.

So true, so true.

Amen!

NO KIDDING!