I recently started to wear glasses, due to the fact that I have a condition where one of my eyes can see clearer than the other, and it had gotten worse over the years. I have only worn my glasses for a year now, but I understand what the people whom have been wearing them much longer have been going through.
1. Walking outside
When you walk outside and go through a temperature change, your glasses fog up, and you go temporarily blind for at least 10 seconds. It is the most annoying thing in the world. And you contemplate wiping them off with your shirt and possibly leaving weird smudge marks or just waiting till they fade on themselves.
2. Drinking hot drinks out of a mug
Once the steam from the drink hits your glasses, once again, you go temporarily blind. The steam fogs up each lens for a good ten seconds. It makes drinking hot drinks out of mugs maddening.
3. "How many fingers am I holding up?"
I honestly used to say this as a child to those who wore glasses, or those whom said they were "blind", and they always got them right. Mostly because half the time, they were indeed wearing their glasses. But the times that they weren't, they could still see maybe just a blur but could still tell what fingers they were. My condition enables me to be able to see things fine without my glasses, so when people asked me this I didn't even know how to respond to them.
4. "Can I try them on?"
Many people ask to try my glasses on, even if they wear their own glasses. Either way, with their own glasses or without I get the same response. "Wow why do you wear these?". I know other people have some lenses much stronger than mine, but my eyes aren't as bad as most people.
5. 4-eyes
Once I got the glasses, the world famous nickname for those that wear glasses became part of my life. One of the most annoying people in my classes began calling me "4-eyes", "Glasses" and other names. Yes I wear glasses, thank you for making it even more obvious.
hahaha.
6. Cleaning them
No matter what kind of special glasses you get, they always get smudged. There are days I wont even be wearing my glasses, or won't touch the glass, and they will still have smudges. If I don't have the special clothe, than I just have to deal with a giant smudge in the middle of my eye.
7. Pictures with flash
Nowadays there are actually certain glasses that don't reflect flash I guess. But that's not the case for me. If anyone takes pictures of me with the flash on, you better bet those glasses are coming off or my eyes are going to be a white light.
8. Eyelashes
Now it may be different for some, but I do wear makeup, and mascara and all that. My eyelashes are long with the mascara on and when I wear my glasses, they get stuck or streak across the inside glass. It makes an odd noise and the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Like dragging nails on a chalkboard or something as painful as that.
Yes, glasses are very helpful, and I'm glad I was able to get them before my vision got worse, but sometimes, they are just so intolerable.
