215 – Sign
Today I did the unthinkable and broke a pair of glasses in the comic. It’s a terrible tragedy.
Whenever I see someone wearing really worn-out looking glasses in real life, I keep wondering what keeps them together and why they aren’t getting new ones…
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The glasses I wear are 13 years old, and yes, they are my first and the only pair) Practically good as new.
I mourn your optometrist after he/she has a heart attack when you tell them this. You really should update the prescription at least every couple years…
I actually visit optometrist every year because of my job. They told me I could get a new pair, but then my vision would recalibrate or something like that. So I kinda can use new glasses for theatre and sight-seeings, but in everyday life I should stick to my old ones (that’s what they told me, I don’t really understand this stuff). Well, at least, my eyesight is not getting significantly worse through all these years, and that’s fine by me)
I’ve had my current glasses even longer. Not a scratch on it. Well, not on the glasses. There’s a scratch on the frame from the first year (I think).
I should look for a new pair, if only as backup. But I don’t wanna. I hate shopping for glasses; even more so because I hate current fashion trends.
That moment when you accidentaly break your glasses frame and remember how much it costed you.
T_T
See, this is why I’m glad I don’t need glasses.
Well, that and my head’s vulnerability to headaches from anything that squeezes or pinches for prolonged periods of time, but constantly misplacing cheap sunglasses is bad enough. Something I actually rely upon to see, and have to pay considerable sums of money to get calibrated precisely for my ocular deficiencies? No thank you!
As someone who has to wear glasses and has that issue with headaches, yeah, it’s the worst.
Glasses are to Frivolesque what magic wands are to Harry Potter ^_^
So does that mean there is a pair of Elder-Glasses?
And does that mean Chloé’s glasses will start malfunctioning just like Ron’s wand? Somehow?
You millenials and your Harry Potter references…
Am I a millenial??? XD Pretty sure I was born as a xennial (1977)…
I used to have a pair of frames that were a flexible titanium-alloy, they cost about $600 almost 20 years ago, the main problem was that they were not quite wide enough(I needed a 63 and these were a 57), so I had to deal with the arms pressing into the sides of my face.
My friend used to wear duct taped glasses for years, every time I noticed that I feel really uncomfortable even though I don’t wear glasses myself (only occasionally) mmm…
You should have done like Chloé here.
No wonder Frivolesque is one of my favourite comics, as a glasses wearer I relate so much with the girls.
Once at work I needed to clean my glasses. I reached up to remove them. Only half wanted to stay on my face, the other went with my hand. I had 10 hours of work left to go with a 30-40 min drive home.
I got two new pairs of glasses, but they keep sliding off. So instead of getting them adjusted, I just wore my old ones from a couple of years back. I’ve grown attached to my old pair.
Maybe they’ll evolve and turn into the ultimate glasses in time.
Two words.
Viking funeral.
We can send them off to Valhalla on the burning wreckage of the Fred x Saki ship.
The tape makes me think she’s been waiting for this to happen.
I did something like this once.It was the perfect opportunity to give Allison new glasses after almost a decade of wearing the same old ones.
I used to work at Lens Crafters, in the lab. I was one of the people responsible for making the quality glasses in about an hour.
With eyesight as reportedly terrible as Chloé’s in this case, it may be one of the rare cses in which the lenses cost quite a lot, in materials, special handling, and while her spectacles don’t look as though they would be that expensive to shape the lenses to fit, maybe they are?
At Lens Crafters, though, 95% of the time, the frames were the costly bits, not the lenses so much.
That other 5% though… hoo boy, those spectacles were NOT going to be done in an hour.
As of now, it’s the prohibitive cost of the eye exam and the glasses combined that is the reason why I have none… neither are covered under my insurance. I have to squint to pass the eye test at the Motor Vehicle Department.
Hmm, I think at -6, Chloe’s lenses will be pretty expensive.
It strikes me as a bit odd to hear they contribute to a prohibitive cost elsewhere in the world, because opticians do eye-exams for free here. I think they just want to sell glasses really badly. They sometimes even have three-for-one offers, where you can give those two extra glasses to friends/family (in their prescription, measured for free).