I’m tempted to find an ironic funky chain, a la Annie Potts in Ghostbusters, but for now I use my head as storage. This is important when you are thinking about the heft of the frames. You will probably wear them on top of your head a lot to have them close by.
There is nothing more rage-inducing than not having them when you’re trying to read a label. I have pairs in the kitchen and bedroom, in the car, and in a few different bags. It has happened with every reader I’ve tried, even pricey ones. They will make your eyes look big and buggy like the stapler-obsessed guy on Office Spacewho was relegated to the basement storage room, no matter how low the magnification. In a year of using reading glasses, I’ve learned a few things: It’s called presbyopia, and according to a study cited in the New York Times, it affects 83% of people in North America by the time they’re 45. As people age, the lens in the eye becomes less flexible, making it harder to focus.
So I bought reading glasses.Ĭhances are high that you, too, will eventually need reading glasses. I gave up my last shreds of dignity and enlarged the print on my phone. Sure enough, I opened my phone in the dying light of dusk and everything on the screen was a blur.
I smugly assumed that my close-sighted vision would last, because well into my 40s, I did not need supplemental eyewear to mindlessly scroll through Twitter or order a drink in a dim bar.īut last year, I needed a new contact lens prescription (I have worn glasses/contacts since third grade for nearsightedness), and my eye doctor warned me that, based on my age, my crisp new corrected far vision would likely come with the need for reading glasses. For years I watched my 40- and 50-something friends pull out their reading glasses to read menus, their phones, and the small print on beauty packaging.
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