So while waiting in a local chop-shop to get the boys hair trimmed this weekend, this older lady came in and sat down next to me. And then proceed to breakout her MONOCLE to read an article. Did you hear me? A MONOCLE? I wanted to ask her if she was some kind of time traveler or something. Because honestly she didn’t look a day over 70…and yet apparently hadn’t heard that Ben Franklin invented GLASSES a few years ago. I should have taken her by the hand over to LensCrafters and showed her all the progress the world has been making since last she checked in. Of course the real comedy of this? She was reading Discovery Today. Apparently she missed the issue on the convenience of eyewear. There is a good bet she just holds her hand up to shield her eyes from the sun too, seeing as how SUNGLASSES would fall into the same category.
(Photo Note: Aren’t my stealth you-can’t-see-me photo taking skillz getting better? Of course I wasn’t too worried about getting caught since she probably couldn’t see me anyway.)
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Damn. I was going to start asking where I could buy one of those monocle thingys, until I sensed you’d go all mock-y on me.
Really tho, when you’re getting your hair coloured? It would be so convenient and you wouldn’t get hair dye all over your specs.
That decides it. I’m getting a monocle or I’m just gonna go gray. There.
I myself prefer a lorgnette.
I think they sell those in Walgreens. Next to the buggy whip section, but not as far down as the pantaloons.
Not to be a history nitpick, but technically that’s a magnifying glass. A monocle would be wedged between your brow and cheek bone, directly in front of the eye. And, Ben Franklin invented bifocals, not eyeglasses in general. Aside from all that, who reads a magazine with a magnifying glass? Get a pince nez and let it goooo…
Martha- Perhaps she keeps the monocle on her cheekbone whenever she’s not examining a particularly interesting tid bit…at which time she grasps the monocle in her hand for intense viewing. And just for history sake: a magnifying lass isn’t necessarially a monocle BUT a monocle is always a magnifying glass.
That’s not a monocle. That’s a magnifying glass. Many seniors with blindness problems use them. If you weren’t young and stupid you would know that. A monocle is a single prescription lens that is held next to the eye. Sheesh.
Yeah that pretty much is a magnifying glass for people who really are basically blind…nice.