titanium frames look pretty, but they suck. the indestructible titanium frames lasted 3 months with me before they fell apart. i went back to good old regular metal frames.

bend the earpieces a bit to hold them over your ear more.
or get one of those little string things that slide over the earpiece and the string stays behind your head.

i learned this trick many many years ago, after a pair fell into the oil drain pan, and i had to fish them out of 8 gallons of freshly drained HOT oil.

 

Slapped some rep on B.O.R. for ya. He is quick and funny.

I have had contacts or glasses since the 3rd grade. Started with hard contacts in 3rd grade for a number of years until I just couldn't take them anymore. Wore glasses for a long time until soft contacts became reasonably priced.
Now (last 20 years or so, I guess) I wear accuvues and only take them out once a week for cleaning and replace every 2 weeks. It is sweet waking up able to see!
But, as Lone Wati said to Josie Wales: "Old age is creeping up on me" and I own several pairs of readers. I but the $10- $15 ones and have a set next to the bed, at my office, out in my shop and a floating pair that kind of stays with me most times.
Reading glasses, gray hair clippings in my lap and eyebrows and ear hair trimmed by the barber (without my request) ! Where does it end?
I guess when I am in a box all this nonsense will stop.

 

I had eyes shaped like footballs, and wore glasses since kindergarten. You could burn ants in the parking lot with my lenses. I are an expert in loose glasses and their repairage. I thought spring hinges were brilliant when they came out. Never got a set without them. In 2004 I got lasik, same time as my wife with the perfect eyes finally needed glasses. Now I just fix hers.

Those slender titanium frames look great with the plano lenses in them at the showroom, but if you put my old bottle bottoms in them they got ugly real quick.

 

Until you can either replace the frames, or come up with another solution, try this:

Slip little (as tiny as possible) "O" rings over the earpiece and roll onto the hinge.
They will slightly press the ear/temple-piece toward your head and tighten them, just slightly.

(I had to do this with a pair of AO Safety Glasses, once, when I first started wearing glasses.) Talk about cheap. . . these prescription glasses were free!

 

Wow, guys!!!!!!

I am truly humbled. All of those rep points for that one-liner.


I am humbled. Truly humbled. Thank you.

We now return to our regularly scheduled programming. . . . .



Keith

 

My wife calls them "Croakies".

 

Best cure for poor-fitting glasses....contacts!

Apparently, I have an oddly shaped head and no pair of glasses has ever fit me comfortably. I wore glasses all day every day until my senior year of high school, when I finally got contacts...and wish I'd done it sooner.

Now I have a pair of glasses that I just wear when my contacts are out (since I have astigmatism and probably couldn't make out the letters on a Mail Pouch barn from 20 yards away without some sort of visual correction) but they still bug the hell out of me AND the prescription is way out of date. sigh.

Anyway, my worst purchase...only one that comes to mind immediately is my $650 beater tempo that I bought in 2004.

Overall it was actually a pretty good car, but I had to put too much money & effort into it to keep it on the road and it was never fun to drive.

In the less than four years I drove it (and only drove it winters...maybe that was part of the problem) I had to replace the starter ($120...ouch), one inner tie rod, both outer tie rods, both ball joints, the exhaust system twice (it kept rusting out and/or breaking), the water pump (HUGE PITA!!!), the rear brake shoes (no, not because they wore out...the friction material was bonded on, and it fell off), both rear brake lines (rusted out) and had to patch the front fender because it rusted out also. Hell, there may have been other things that I can't remember. It was a rust bucket, the floor pan was rusted through behind the front seats when I bought it.

I still have it and now don't know what to do with the thing.

 

contact are not the answer for everyone, especially if you are in a heavy dust/dirt environment.

 

My worst purchase that I can recall was a Kidak 'Disc' camera. What an incredible piece of useless junk and waste of money.

 

If your wallet can handle it, then Lasik is the way to go. I had it done in 2005 and I was blind as a bat so to speak. It was my "best purchase ever". I'd easily pay that $3000 again for the same result. I had worn glasses since I was 3 and I was 30 when I had it done. Contacts were ok but bothersome due to a severe astigmatism. Good luck whatever you may do.

 

"Lasik" is great! (Not for me. . . my wife.)

My darlin' wife's glasses were like coke-bottle-bottoms! Thick!
She's worn glasses since she was just a kid. Then. . .contacts.

She had "Lasik" done almost 5 years ago.
On the way home from getting this procedure done, she was 'rattling off' numbers.

"Darlin', what in the heck are you saying?"

"I'm reading the tag number of that truck up there."

"WHAT truck!?!?!?!?"

She could see the license plate on a truck waaaaaaaaaaay up the road from us. When I finally got near that truck. . . lo and behold. . . the numbers were exactly as she was reciting them, earlier!

Incredible stuff. . . . Modern medicine. Best $3,000.00 I've ever spent.

 

My worst purchase was a 10 year old pontoon boat. That boat was really was nothing but a hole in the water that I through money into. It's true the two best days of a boat owners lives are the day you buy the boat and the day you sell it.

 

HEY. No dissing of the Tercel 4x4 wagon. Dad bought one, I forget what year but it was very early 80's. Yeah, it was ugly. Yeah, it was gutless (1.5 L straight 4). But it would go damn near anywhere. I know cause I drove it damn near everywhere. The engine and tranny were darn near bulletproof. One guy could push start it.

My Dad and step-mother drove it well over 100K. Then sold it to my step-brother who gave it to his step-son (teenager) who tried to kill it but couldn't. I put it back together and drove it a lot more, then it made it to my son (another teenager), who finally did kill it, at well over 300K miles. My son has killed numerous cars, so he is a professional.

 

I left my glasses in the truck, which my girlfriend now has at work. Dammit.

My worst purchase was a money pit headache 2000 Skidoo MXZ 700 Renegade, however my best purchase was a 2002 MXZ 700 Renegade. Kinda weird eh.

 

don't you know you're supposed to throw a ford tempo away when the ashtray gets full