Garfield by Jim Davis for July 26, 2009

Jon’s getting old. That’s a shame.

Know the feeling. :-(

It’s Stretch Arbuckle

Either that or he just got a bill, and doesn’t want to believe what he’s seeing

Reading glasses aren’t that expensive. And I couldn’t read without them so they’re a godsend.

Set it on the floor, it works till you get the reading glasses.

I wish I had his problem, my eyes are going the other way….my nose is almost touching the paper when I read… I hate hypermyopia…sigh.

Jon needs to use the magnify so he will be able to read it.

I got the eyeglasses for farsighting when I was 15 1/2 years old and I have to wear it while I drive. sigh!

I just started wearing bifocals last year, and the irony is that I actually read better without them than I do with them!

Joe, my Dad worked at Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach as well. He was a design engineer.

$300.00 for a pair of glasses!! Wow - the last pair of glasses I bought (trifocals) cost me over $800.00! I went back to contact lenses - much cheaper - and I wear one for reading and the other for distance. The middle corrective part of the trifocal lens was useless.

Wasn’t that a saaaaaaaad day? I squint to read when I forget my drugstore reading glasses. Now I have them spread all over the house.

Yeah I paid a little over 300 for trifocals, what a waste.. glasses sitting on desk right now. Still can’t see really small stuff clearly, and my eyes take forever to refocus for distance if I read a book for more than 30 mins at a time. They really sharpen the ghost image from astigmatism though.

I started using Glasses when I was 9, & I started wearing Bifocals when I was 47. Been there, done that.

I didn’t know Jon had “Go Go Gadget Arms”!

First pair of glasses at 9 ….first pair of bifocals at 16….first near death experience not long after getting bifocals (almost killed myself “falling” UP a flight of stairs)

I started needing reading glasses along about my 40th, too. That was nearly 15 years ago, and now I need 2.75 magnification. Better light helps too, which is why I’ll be beefing up the interior lighting in my vehicle (map indexes can be hard even for good eyes, poor lighting makes it worse.) So far, the dime-store “cheaters” work well enough but sooner rather than later I’m just going to have to admit that I’m “old” and need bifocals.

I didn’t know Jon Arbuckle was a cousin of Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic)!

When I was little I had trouble seeing. School didn’t test put me in SE. Mom took me to eye Dr. had me with glasses, school did not mess with me, and I started bificals before 30 for reading. Just two years ago got stronger lenses. Hard on my neck for computer screen. I enjoy reading. I have a two rooms, livingroom of books. Now gocomics to read. What fun I am having.

princepavel : Me too.

20/200 in one eye, 20/20 in the other. until plastic lenses came along, i had major problems with glasses. coke bottle bottoms on one side, flat glass on the other, and no way to balance the weight difference. wore one contact lens when i first went that route, only took a little bit longer to get used to. good eye is now getting slightly far-sighted, so bifocals are on the horizon. i don’t care, as long as i can still read the putts and follow the little white ball down the fairway.

Isn’t a myth that reading in low light will destroy your vision? My mom would disagree.

Glasses, bifocals, progressives, contacts maybe even laser surgery couldn’t cure Jon’s need to see things as they really are. LOL

What’s bad is when your reading glasses start needing reading glasses. That’s about where I am.

jon shouldnt tease garfield about his age anymore

What in the?

Good idea Garfield.