Four Eyes

Four Eyes, Specky, men never make passes at girls that wear glasses. How is your experiences of wearing specs, probably fair to say more than a few of us have to wear specs today.

Can you remember seeing the old NHS specs of the past complete with an elastoplast support for a failing frame. Did it impact on your lives. ?

Re: Four Eyes

Since I had my cataract op I haven't needed my old glasses and haven't yet got my new ones, so what does Sheila say ? That I look older without my specs !

Re: Four Eyes

I had to wear glasses for short sightedness, ie all day, from the age of about 12, and still do

I am forever grateful to my parents that they always bought me decent quality private frames, and that was in the days when such things were expensive.

Now I also have to have reading glasses, which means that I sometimes have to search for them and try to remember the last time I used them. I am holding out against having them round my neck on a silly chain.

Re: Four Eyes

Glasses can look good if you choose the right ones for you
Some men especially good in glasses

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Had to wear them following an eye op when I was five years old. I had the old NHS glasses and I hated them with a vengeance. Once I left the house, off they would come. I had to wear them in school because the teachers were on top of me.

At the age of fourteen I was told by the hospital that I no longer needed to wear them, as my eyes were as good as they were ever going to get. At fourteen years old that was the best news of my life. Yes I got all the four eyes jibes but now I could leave it all behind.

I hung out as long as I could when my eye sight started to fail.
I now wear varifocals and always keep them on, funnily it doesn't bother me at all now

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When I have to wear my glasses I know where to put them,in front of my eyes. Not on top of my head.

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I wear glasses for reading and computer work ,have done for a few yrs now..mine are pink metallic rimmed ones,my son has worn the old NHS thick milk bottle bottomed ones when he was small and he was very hard on them so indeed did have the sticky tape on one of the arms of his lol
He now has the sprung armed ones so thats better.

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I have had reading glasses for a couple of years, no problem then I started to have to wear glasses for driving ok, now I need them for watching TV and if I want to see anything in focus across the room - not so good. I have 3 pairs of readers and 3 of distance and never actually know where all 3 are at once, on a good day I have a pair of each, left them at work several times, found them in the fridge, bathroom cabinet, bonnet of the car, boot of the car, down the side of the sofa cushion and in the dogs bed ( I swear I didn't put them there I blame Betty).

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I've gone back to vintage looking frames, I found a nice pair of round tortoiseshell type ones in Homesense.

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I have needed glasses since I started school but only started wearing them all the time since I stated to drive (37), I have never had any problems. I now have tinted ones with a purple film on them as I have glaucoma everyone says they look nice. Bottom line I cant see with out them anymore