Bifocals...I don't get it

[AngryAmish]

I can understand needing help to see things up close. I can even understand needing glasses for far away. But have one set of glasses for both- it's just not right.

[WoodrowFan]

1. I'm hitting alert

making fun of the middle-aged!

[AngryAmish]

4. well, I'm alerting you

for alerting me. For horrible, horrible accusations!

[WoodrowFan]

5. you can't alert me!

I already alerted you! that's not fair!

[AngryAmish]

10. I alerted you twice.

Take that!

[WoodrowFan]

12. HA!

They cancelled each other out. Besides, i alerted you infinity times infinity!

[realisticphish]

14. see below

:evilgrin:


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[realisticphish]

13. i'm alerting you BOTH, bamf!

:evilgrin:


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[WoodrowFan]

16. you wait your turn

first I gotta take car eof this dude in the black hat who thinks he can alert ME!!! HA!!! I laugh at alerts (H HA HA).

[AngryAmish]

17. Alerted you again

I can do this all day.

[WoodrowFan]

18. I just alerted you

and called no backsies.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

2. Hence,

contact lenses.

[Atlas Mugged]

6. Well...not really.

I wear the contact lense version of bifocals. It's called mono-vision. One eye is for reading and the other is for distance. Not many people can adjust to them easily, but I started with them so gradually, I never noticed. I also have "bifocals" - or gradient lenses to be more exact. I love them.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

7. I have bifocal contact lens eyes.

I'm nearsighted in one eye, farsighted in the other. Natural bi-focals, my ophthamologists always said.

[BlueJazz]

3. I've got scientific proof that people who need Bi-Focals are....

...likely to be subversive communists.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

8. Really?

What's your take on people who need trifocals?

I've always found them a little suspicious.

[AngryAmish]

11. Trifocals are illegal in seven states plus Guam

Oklahoma, Idaho, Delaware, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina and Minnesota.

[Susang]

9. You will

Just wait. ;-)

[KitchenWitch]

15. I don't need bifocals

my arms are just too short!

[tjwmason]

19. It's two different problems

I used to work in an Opticians whilst at school, and so whilst bored would actually read the piles of guff which they produced and patients never read.

There are four main problems which affect people, short-sightedness, long-sightedness, astigmatism, and being old (I can't remember all of the proer Greek terms as I've drunk much wine this evening).

I am short-sighted and astigmatic which means that I can't see objects far away clearly, however as I get older my eyes will get too tired to focus on things very close to me. Therefore in addition to the normal correction for things in the distance, I will need an added boost for things close by. This is what bi-focals are.

The main lens is designated for one's normal sight (I think that I am something like -1.5 dioptres), but then there is the added boost for close work (say +1 dioptre).