new post about glasses

Well , I got a call from my sister yesterday who mentioned that I haven’t posted a blog in awhile . She wanted to know if I am still kicking , I guess . Yeah , I am , as far as I know .

Ada and I were walking today to the optometrist . We both ordered new eyeglasses . Insurance pays most of the bill . I liked some of the frames but they were about $ 200 or more . My insurance pays $100 toward frames every two years . Used to be several frames under $100 , but that phenomenon seems to be slipping way .

I can’t lose the thought that any of those frames are made for a few bucks . Not a bad mark-up for those glasses-frames sellers , especially the designer brand sellers . Most of it seems to be so-called designer brands these days . I think I saw a Michael Jackson brand of frames . Could have been some other sports celebrity .

I’m not much for celebrities . I’m too cheap to spend an extra 100 or two ( or three or four ) just to have a name brand . Who cares ! So you have Ray Bans or Versace or Oakleys . I’m not impressed . Are people impressed with the fact that you spent an extra chunk of cash on your eyeglasses frames , more money than someone else did ( say , me ) ? If so then , as they say in the South : Bless your heart !

Ada and I were out in apple-growing country several years ago leisurely self-picking in an apple orchard when I found a pair of sunglasses under a tree . They were plastic things , kind of flimsy I thought , but worked okay . Light weight ; an interesting shape . I wore them around for years , never thinking much about them . I have to admit that I always thought they were cheapos . Then one day a kid at school said to me , kind of out of the blue : Oh , you have Oakleys . My father has Oakleys .

Oakleys ? I asked him what are Oakleys . Your glasses , he said . You can tell by the symbol on the side , he said .

Oh ! Oakleys .

The sunglasses eventually began to wear out . The plastic finally began to peel off . I looked up the cost of a new pair of Oakleys . Back then my particular style of Oakleys cost $80 . The same ones on display at the optometrists today were $200 . Well , everything costs more these days . The school police officer at my school back then when I wore the Oakleys told me that the police can get a 10% discount on Oakleys . He offered to pass the discount along to me . I demurred .

I think I lost the Oakleys at some point . Then I found a new-looking pair of Burberry sunglasses . I pulled into a church parking lot to turn around on a busy street and I noticed the sunglasses sitting there on the vacant asphalt kind of just sitting there waiting for me .

Someone’s watching out for me . Maybe my guardian angel feels sorry for me once in awhile . The watchful angel noticed that I had lost my Oakleys. They were worn out anyway . It takes a long time to wear-out a pair of Oakleys , by the way . Years . I was making due with Dollar Store sunglasses ; putting up with Ada’s teasings about me wearing cheap-looking shades . Well , they were cheap . Then I happened upon the Burberrys . I wore those things for quite a while , too ; but I must have lost them . I don’t remember what happened to those Burberrys . Maybe I sat on them and broke them . It’ll come to me . Or not . But I don’t have them any more .

Back to Dollar Store sunglasses .

Maybe I should splurge and buy myself a replacement pair of Oakleys . If I spent that kind of money on sunglasses , though , I’d sit on them and break them , or drop them somewhere and lose them . Or I’d have to spend my time with them worried that I’d break or lose them . Too much inner stress !

Just in passing , though , a hint to my guardian angel : It might be time for me to find another pair of sunglasses . Polarized , please . Maybe Versace this time , or Ray Ban . Doesn’t matter to me. You choose.