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(Message started by: ExplodingEyeBall on Mar 14^th, 2006, 9:48am)

Title: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Mar 14^th, 2006, 9:48am

I refuse to grow up but I think I am offically getting old now.

I went yesterday and picked up my brand new pair of bifocals. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everything looks so... so.... um...... I'M SO WASTED!!!!!!

Will I ever get used to these thing?

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by TomM on Mar 14^th, 2006, 10:52am

on 03/14/06 at 09:48:51, ExplodingEyeBall wrote:

Will I ever get used to these thing?

I got rid of my first pair of bi-focal b/c I could not get accustomed to them. I do have Bi-focal contacts and that is cool. Had these for 2 years and I'm 43...physcially...20 mentally. :)
TomM

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by cootie on Mar 14^th, 2006, 10:52am

Brad actually gave up on his.......he works on presses and runs around huge machines and stuff at work and can't be DIZZY........he said he had to learn to walk all over again but would turn to do sumthin and get dizzy and disoriented kind of feeling and could NOT adjust. He didn't particularly want bifocals in the first place but this eye doc he went to was an apparent DICK. He went back and told the guy he could NOT work and adjust to them but the guy got pissy and said EVERYONE says that and to just WEAR THEM and shut up basically. I think he even called and complained again but the nurses said to get over it.........he doesn't wear them anymore at all. Defeated purposes Pam

But at least SUMONE got there money rite ???? Hope you can adjust !!!!!?

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by Guiseppi on Mar 14^th, 2006, 11:05am

I ended up with the progressive bi-focals...........the indignities of getting old. Stairs are by far the most exciting part of bi-focals. You walk like a moderately intoxicated frankenstein! You do kinda sorta get used to them! Good luck.

Guiseppi

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Mar 14^th, 2006, 11:08am

on 03/14/06 at 10:52:24, TomM wrote:

I'm 43...physcially...20 mentally. :)
TomM

I'd think we were long lost twins but my mental part is closer to 16.

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by TomM on Mar 14^th, 2006, 11:09am

on 03/14/06 at 11:05:35, Guiseppi wrote:

Stairs are by far the most exciting part of bi-focals. You walk like a moderately intoxicated frankenstein! You do kinda sorta get used to them! Good luck.

Guiseppi

I never got used to them so I went back and got distance only glasses. I dam near fell flat on my face b/ c of the bi's going from the garage to the kitchen...a whole 3 stairs!

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Mar 14^th, 2006, 11:10am

on 03/14/06 at 11:05:35, Guiseppi wrote:

I feel like I"m in a Monty Python skit. I'm the leader at the Ministry of Silly Walks. ;;D

AND...

I almost ran over a curb this morning.

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by TomM on Mar 14^th, 2006, 11:28am

on 03/14/06 at 11:10:20, ExplodingEyeBall wrote:

I feel like I"m in a Monty Python skit. I'm the leader at the Ministry of Silly Walks. ;;D

Spam, spam, spam....
I'm a lumber jack and I'm ok...
Every sperm is sacred....
I kill ME! ;;D ;;D ;;D

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by imnotbub on Mar 14^th, 2006, 11:35am

Give it a week or two without taking them off. It's tough, but worth it. I can't imagine not having them now.
Steve

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by ABarham on Mar 14^th, 2006, 11:44am

I really didn't have that much trouble getting used to them after the first few days. The problem I had was when working on the puter, I would have to hold my head back so that I could see the screen thru the lower part and my neck got sore. So, I just had another pair made with the reading part in the whole lens so that it didn't bother me when using the puter.

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by CHTom on Mar 14^th, 2006, 11:44am

To "imnotbub"";
If you're not bub, who are you and where is bub? [smiley=huh.gif]

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by Svenn on Mar 14^th, 2006, 11:55am

http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b6dd35b3127cce97e202f6773200000016108ActWLFu4Zt3

Just look at me so no complaing now [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif]

Svenn

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by Ghost on Mar 14^th, 2006, 12:32pm

on 03/14/06 at 10:52:24, TomM wrote:

I I'm 43...physcially...20 mentally. :)
TomM

Me too!

Try the no line ones They work pretty good. ;;D

Mike

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by TomM on Mar 14^th, 2006, 12:36pm

on 03/14/06 at 12:32:26, Ghost wrote:

Try the no line ones They work pretty good. ;;D
Mike

Mike--That is what I had and hated them. Bifocal contacts are koooool!

on 03/14/06 at 11:08:50, ExplodingEyeBall wrote:

I'd think we were long lost twins but my mental part is closer to 16.

I went from 16 to 20 my last b-day [in dec] only b/c of the grey hair!

TomM

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by Ghost on Mar 14^th, 2006, 12:40pm

I know the feeling took 3 different styles before they worked for me. enough to make someone crazier. ;;D 8) 8) 8)

Mike

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Mar 14^th, 2006, 12:52pm

on 03/14/06 at 11:44:24, ABarham wrote:

The problem I had was when working on the puter, I would have to hold my head back so that I could see the screen thru the lower part and my neck got sore.

Tell me about it. I'm a computer hardware/config specialist. I have 450 computers to maintain.

I'm having a hard time with my monitor right now.

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by TomM on Mar 14^th, 2006, 12:56pm

The other secret is MORE light. I do some hardware confiuration @ my firm or @ home. Those dark light spaces kill me. I first noticed it when working in the bilge of my boat on the engine. Bright white decks and a dark bilge makes it hard to see that dam spark plug or bolt I would drop.
Get MORE light.

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by imnotbub on Mar 14^th, 2006, 2:05pm

on 03/14/06 at 11:44:49, CHTom wrote:

To "imnotbub"";
If you're not bub, who are you and where is bub? [smiley=huh.gif]

I'm not bub, my son is. I am THE GREAT BUB!
Actually they are characters in a story I wrote. I do, though, call my son 'the bub'.

Steve

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by lilboo on Mar 14^th, 2006, 9:14pm

Good one Svenn [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif]

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by Lizzie2 on Mar 14^th, 2006, 9:25pm

My mom has one contact for distance and one for close up. Took her awhile to get used to them, though!

My eye doc once told me I had to get reading glasses because I sit at the piano and stare at the music without even blinking. That was probably when I *WAS* 20!! But I guess being a pianist made it special circumstances... He thought the eye strain was making my headaches worse. I bought them and wore them to read or play even when I had my contacts in. However, they were giving me worse headaches - so I think they went in the trash! haha...

Good luck with that!

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by Charlie on Mar 15^th, 2006, 1:27am

I've been wearing nothing but reading glasses for so long until now. I just picked up my new progressives last week. Scary seeing in my mirror just what a wizened old thing I've become. Now I can lean back and read the board and actually see all the stupid cable tv I have. http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/egghead.gif

These things weigh almost nothing and now I wouldn't be without the things.

Charlie

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by Mr. Happy on Mar 15^th, 2006, 2:13am

on 03/15/06 at 01:27:30, Charlie wrote:

Scary seeing in my mirror just what a wizened old thing I've become.

A legend in your own mind. The "Gandalf" position was filled years ago.

on 03/15/06 at 01:27:30, Charlie wrote:

Now I can lean back and read the board and actually see all the stupid cable tv I have.

Praise Wotan! It's about time you started getting your updates from something other than AM radio, especially since you've become the Resident Radical.

I'm pullin for ya, man. Keep breathing.
RJ

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by Kirk on Mar 15^th, 2006, 8:33am

I was never bothered much by my bifocals. Got a little dizzy mounting a radar on a mast once while wearing them once a couple of years ago. But thats about it.
[smiley=smokin.gif]

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by BarbaraD on Mar 15^th, 2006, 8:41am

I wore bifocals for a long time, then TRI-focals -- then I had catarac surgery and went back to reading glasses for the computer -- does this mean I'm regressing back to childhood [smiley=huh.gif] [smiley=huh.gif]

Hey about growing up --- I decided a long time ago - it's not what it's cracked up to be so I decided to skip that part -- of course at my age now -- I can be childish and no one thinks anything about it -- They just call it eccentric.... ::)

Hugs BD

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by maffumatt on Mar 15^th, 2006, 8:50am

on 03/15/06 at 08:41:47, BarbaraD wrote:

-- They just call it eccentric.... ::)

Is that what its called Barbara? I just thought you were nuts.....
Matt

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by Dragnlance on Mar 15^th, 2006, 10:37am

Quote:

Is that what its called Barbara? I just thought you were nuts.....

The term is BRAIN DAMAGED. Get it right

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by BarbaraD on Mar 15^th, 2006, 2:50pm

Nuts - Brain Damaged - I can live with that.... :P (and watch your backs kids -- Mom will get you BOTH!! :-*)

BUT I REFUSE to grow UP -- ok???

Hugs BD

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by maffumatt on Mar 15^th, 2006, 2:55pm

you know I love you Barbara, were all nuts here.

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by Jonny on Mar 15^th, 2006, 4:26pm

After decades of ear piercing heavy metal music my hearing is just fine.

After having stainless steel dug out of each eye (Seperate times) I can read anything I need to.

Except for that fine print on cassette jackets, but I can even read that if I hold it to a light.

You folks are OLD....LMAO!! ;;D

Title: Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
Post by BarbaraD on Mar 15^th, 2006, 6:48pm

Watch out who you're calling OLD buster..... you little whipersnaper you.... ;;D