Bifocally Challenged

They say you're getting old when...... your arms aren't sufficiently long that you're able to focus on, and read standard sized type.

In around the time I turned 40 I got my first pair of reading glasses - the half height frame type - and I got by with just a couple of prescription changes into my 50's. About a year and a half ago I got my first pair of bifocals primarily because I was tired of keeping track of the reading glasses, fishing them out, putting them on, taking them off, stowing them.

I wasn't able to get used to said bifocals and so they have been safely stashed away until last week when I really got sick of scrambling to find the reading specs. Since Friday I have been forcing myself to use them all day, each day and although I still don't like them I guess I'm getting more used to them. To the point that I'm not so aware of them being on. My distance vision is fine but I guess there has to be some lens effect via looking through any sort of glass - I find myself peeking over them to see anything far away and have been taking them off to drive especially when it is dark.

Guess I should have heeded Dad's warning......... "You'll go blind if ....."