They’re not super-glasses though. I can’t see through walls or anything. Not yet….
I’d been needing to get new specs for a while. The ones I’d had were pretty ragged out. They were three years old and were some ugly freebies I got from the Army. Not BCGs though. I only used those things in Basic. I had a lot of free time at work today so I went out and got a new pair.
Usually, there’s nothing too special about new glasses. You pick out the frames, get an eye test done and that’s it. Pretty much the same deal here. I went to a place a guy I work with had gotten his prescription checked, and he came along to show me where it was. I went through the whole drill and when they were writing things up they said, “okay, come back in 20 minutes.
“Excuse me? Who can make glasses in 20 minutes? Even Lens Crafters plugs their “in about an hour” like it’s the second coming or some shit. Apparently that’s just how things work here. Score one for Korea!
We left them to their thing and went out and grabbed dinner, then I headed back to the eyeglasses place. I’d given them well over their 20 minutes, because it sounded too good to be true. I was back in 40 and my glasses were ready. I don’t know for how long, but there they were. Just sitting there waiting for me to pick them up. When I first put them on, it was a little weird. They’re the same prescription as my old ones, but the lenses are much thinner. I don’t know what the overall effect of that is, but I had some wicked double-vision in some areas (mostly in the top of the right lens – that’s the one that’s always got the blind man’s prescription). They took them and tweaked the frames a little bit, getting the lenses set just right. I tried them back on and they were much better. Things are much clearer, even with the same prescription. (My old glasses were trashed.) The “magic” part is what they’ve done to my depth perception. Everything close up and far away is the same, but there’s a “magic zone” about two to 5 feet in front of me where everything seems a little bigger. I’m not joking about this, either. The first time I opened my iBook up with them on it looked huge. Ditto for a can of Mt. Dew, my watch and the notepad I carry around. Very weird effect. Weird, but handy – since now my computer feels a lot bigger and the screen is much easier to read. Actually, it’s quite cool, because everything in the “magic zone” looks bigger. Everything.
Even my cock.
I don’t know if this is the size it’s always been and my poor vision and old glasses were just screwing with me. Or maybe the new ones are just blinding me to the truth that the old glasses revealed. Either way, I swear, I am never taking these glasses off.
Ever.