Didn't know that! #2

New glasses day and i'm not so excited. i mean, RR thought they were cool, but he never saw the other ones!

It's pouring down rain and i dash into the store thinking "it's good weather to be disappointed". Damn, i sound like Eeyore... so i stop. i enter my name on the list and wait. The same smiling ms.eyeglass-person calls my name and i walk over to check out these glasses with which i will be stuck for the next 18 months. *sigh*

She has to look in three places but finally comes out with a little plastic tray that for the moment seems to hold my fate. Happily and with care she extracts them and unfolds the temples to place them on my face. Voila! i look in a nearby mirror - kinda hard not to, the place is lined with them like a bachelor apartment! "Hey, they're kinda cute!" Was that ME that said that? Yeah. i didn't know they'd do that.

i then commit the sin of all sins and slide the glasses into place on top of my head. ms. eyeglass-person cringes in several shades of green with a deep sucking HISS. i am simply nonplussed, it's what i do, so get over it. "Hey! They fit here too!" i never thought they'd do that. i figured they'd slide and not stay in place at all. Nope!

Being plastic frames they also do not have nose pads and therefore DO NOT PULL MY HAIR!!! i'd forgotten the sacrifice i'd made to have the other nifty frames, namely - the hair on top of my head! The old ones were wire and the nose pad hinges pulled my hair - sometimes OUT - every time i put them on or off my head. i remembered how much i disliked that! i also thought of how easily the wire frames bent out of shape. These wouldn't do that.

Well yay.

i chose a case, black of course, and a nifty new cleaning cloth with a coffee design on it, and i was set to pay for my replacement lenses. In the end i paid only for the $4 cleaning cloth. The rest was under warranty. Ok, this was magick afoote.

i walked to the back and thanked RR for doing a wonderful job on my new reading glasses. In his humble fashion he replied, "I've been doing this for 20 years. I'd better be good at it! But I'm glad you like them." We caught up on family stuff on both sides for a few minutes and then he was needed back to work and i was off for home in the pouring rain.

Rain. Great, cleansing, new-beginning stuff it is. me and my new, spiffy, funky, black and white, plasitc framed, no nosepad glasses will be just fine together. At one point... i didn't know that.