BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?

Subject: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 05:34 AM

Seriously. They've been missing since Sunday night. I've looked down the sides of the sofas, under the bed...nothing.

If anyone spots them could you give me a shout? Ta.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: CarolC
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 05:35 AM

Yes, but I'm not telling. ;-P

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 05:36 AM

See, that's not fair. I need to drive into town!

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 05:49 AM

You aren't wearing them are you? Maybe on the top of your head?

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 06:38 AM

That's where I usually find mine!

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 06:49 AM

If my cat Charcole finds them lying around,he takes them to where he sleeps.Guess he likes to read before having his cat nap!

It's the first place I look.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Mooh
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 07:02 AM

You're not my mother. That's what Mum was constantly on about, even with more than one pair. I have the same problem.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 07:17 AM

Well, people on my Facebook are now looking down the backs of their sofas, too. Even people in other countries. Someone's bound to find them.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 07:52 AM

I have a plan. Let's all find as many pairs of glasses as we can and send them to Ruth. One of them is bound to be hers and who knows how many others will do in a pinch?

Snail mail?

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Janie
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 08:08 AM

I gave up onn finding mine two years ago, but as long as all y'all are looking for Ruth's.....keep your eyes pen for a pair of gold wire-rims with trifocals.

I can drive just fine without them as long as I know wwhere I'm going and don't nee to read road signs:>)

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 08:09 AM

I'm extremely myopic & always need to find my specs so I can find 'em!

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Mooh
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 09:26 AM

Fwiw, there are places who used to collect discarded eyeglasses for the less fortunate. My church did this for a long time, maybe still does, I'm not sure.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 09:53 AM

have you looked in the freezer? Friends of mine were always trying the freezer after finding a lost item there.

Or maybe you need to look in THEIR freezer, which might be difficult as I've lost contact with them over the years.

Mooh, we had a similar scheme here to distribute old glasses to third world countries

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 10:40 AM

Haven't seen them. But while everyone's looking, if you happen to come across a medium weight glass guitar slide....

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 10:49 AM

" Friends of mine were always trying the freezer after finding a lost item there."

My father once lost his dentures...days went by...until he went to get an ice cube.

My glasses are so much a part of me that I never put them down much.


(If your house is cluttered like mine, they'll probably be in plain sight, but disguised as part of a tableau)

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: GUEST,Mr Red
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 10:58 AM

Struth Ruth
Can't help - I drink from a tankard.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 11:01 AM

I wholeheartedly promise to search for your specs as soon as I have found mine... now where are they????

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 11:25 AM

The house is quite tidy, actually, which is what makes it even more of a mystery.

If you'd all check your freezers, I'd be grateful.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Dave Earl
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 11:52 AM

I know what happened to them!

How do I know?

Well I have some friends who live a few miles away. If anything goes missing/can't be found in their house they say "That Dave has moved/lost/broken it" even if I haven't been near the place for weeks.

Therefore I must have put your specs where you can't see them - but as I have not been near your place I can't tell you what I did with them

:-)

Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 12:00 PM

One thing I do as a last resort is check the trash/waste cans.... I have on occasion knocked something important off of a table into waste paper...etc.
I assume you have looked there...but...

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 12:07 PM

I have. I also checked the vicinity of the dog's bed (last time this happened I had a different dog, who had eaten them.)

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 12:20 PM

I checked the freezer.No glasses....but found the sofa we've been looking for for the last six weeks. Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 12:54 PM

Borrowers...

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: topical tom
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 01:15 PM

We have two unidentified pairs of glasses. What do they look like? (If you don't live in Quebec they likely aren't yours).

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 01:34 PM

Don Thompson has a song inspired by his excellent wife Winnie. The chorus starts

"They'll be hiding at the bottom of her handhag
A place the light of day has never seen..."

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: jeffp
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 01:39 PM

If your dog has eaten them, you might be better off checking the yard after he has been out there. I'd suggest washing them before you wear them again, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Morticia
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 01:42 PM

I checked the freezer, nothing:-( but Pixie of Doom reckons everything is in the third drawer down, try there.

I usually lose mine in the bathroom but like Mr Happy once I don't have them I can't see to look for them.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 02:44 PM

Look in the pockets of coats, robes, etc.
===================
I don't use glasses for very close work, so I take them off constantly to read, sew, make jewelry. Then I don't recall doing it.

A couple months ago, a nice new pair disappeared. Finally my husband decided he would find them or die. He did find them - almost invisible on the black pad which holds the foot control to my serger. I had taken them off to sew, and they had tried to hide.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 04:10 PM

What we need is a sort of build in phone. When I lose my mobile ("cell phone") all I do is ring it and it duly sings out.

You've tried your dressing gown pocket, I take it.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 04:18 PM

I found my glasses behind the tv this morning....they had fallen off the shelf above...you could try there...

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Gurney
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 04:24 PM

They're next to the chuck-key for the electric drill!

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Skivee
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 04:45 PM

Ruth, they are right over there. No, not there, THERE! Right behind that thing. See 'em?

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 04:55 PM

"See 'em? " Skivee, that's the PROBLEM............maybe you better go hand 'em to her.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 05:02 PM

"If it was a snake it would have bit you"

Heard hundreds of times from my wife when I lose something- she always seems to find it first.

There is a cute little song by Queen Lili'uokalani (Aloha Oe) about her grandmother looking for her glasses- which were perched on top of her head. Have it on cd.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Rowan
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 05:24 PM

They're not in my freezer, Ruth.

They're not down that gap between the handbrake and the seat, either. That's one place mine used to hide in before I put a legrope on them and signified to all and sundry I was truly an old fart.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: gnu
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 06:06 PM

Hang on... wait'll I find mine and I'll help you look for them.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 23 Oct 08 - 07:24 PM

Thank you for your kind efforts - I have to confess, I gave in and went to Specsavers today. If I find my others...well, this just proves how valuable it is to have a spare pair. And now that I'm wearing some glasses, of course, I'm far more likely to find the lost ones.

I reckon the ones in the freezer in Quebec are probably them.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 12:13 PM

Yes, Ruth, it is a scientific fact that glasses have a magnetic attraction for one another. The new pair will gradually draw the old pair out of its hiding place, and one day you will look behind a cookbook,say, and there they will be.

This is true of scissors as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 12:37 PM

If you can find where the washer/dryer hides socks, you may find they are branching out to include other items.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 12:52 PM

My wife found a jar of Gorilla Snot under our sofa yesterday. (For those unfamiliar with Gorilla Snot, it's a product made to help guitarists hold onto their picks.) The lid wasn't very tightly sealed and the Gorilla Snot had turned into a single large Gorilla Booger (Gorilla Bogie to our UK friends). It was pretty obvious that it wasn't Ruth's glasses, even to an idiot like me.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Rowan
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 05:37 PM

A whole jar? We only get Gorilla Snot in those tubes that you put in a caulking gun. I'm envious.

And all I found under my sofa (apart from dust bunnies) was a "Your rights at work" campaign badge from last year; almost a heritage item.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 06:09 PM

I got em... wait... no... these are the ones I left in the basement by the wood stove last year. Rats.

Maybe I can use these to look for the new ones. Then, I can help you look for yours.

brb

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 07:15 PM

Quick chorus of The Parting Glass.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 07:16 PM

Hahahahahaaa... good one, McGrath

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Oct 08 - 12:58 AM

Sarah Palin is wearing them. She trying to change her image a bit to distance herself from the Tina Fey impersonation.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Oct 08 - 01:36 AM

There's gotta be a song about this....the only one I can thing of right now:

My eyes are blind, I cannot see,
I have not got my specs with me.
I have...not...got....I have not got my specs with me.

There must be others.
Find those specs yet, Ruth?
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 25 Oct 08 - 01:38 AM

I looked. They are not here. Keep looking.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Oct 08 - 05:41 AM

This was one of only three songs my dad ever taught me.. (the other two were 'when this bloody war is over' and 'how can you tell when a guinea pig is please if he hasn't got a tail to wag'), and his version went:

My eyes are blind, I cannot see,
I left my specs in the WC,
I left my specs in the WC!

I'd look there if I were you.

Or under the piano. It's a well known fact that pianos - particularly stubborn uprights - have their own gravity field. Anything small and valuable will end up under the piano, even if the piano is in a different room, or, in one case I know of, in a different house! Our whole dining room (where the piano is) floor slopes down towards the window in the opposite wall from the one with the piano against it. Anything you drop on the floor will end up under the piano which is at the highest point of the floor... the only explaination is gravity fields.

Or gnomes.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 25 Oct 08 - 11:42 AM

I vote for the gnomes, Liz. Walk past an English garden at midnight, and the gnome will not be in place. Why not? Because it's in the house, hiding glasses, scissors and checkbooks.

In the movie 'Amalie,' they only THOUGHT the gnome was getting about with the aid of friends...

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 26 Oct 08 - 06:01 AM

.........it's a singular phenomenon, that when searching for something misplaced, you can often find other lost stuff!!

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 26 Oct 08 - 01:29 PM

I find that I am singing this refrain more and more often since I got classy clear plastic frames on my glasses

like these

Either that, or my eyesight is getting worse without the glasses on.

Or both.

Probably both.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Oct 08 - 03:56 PM

Good lord, DD. Oh my. I can hear the crunch as you step on them.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Gurney
Date: 26 Oct 08 - 05:34 PM

As Gnu says. Been there, done that! At least mine were just safety glasses.
A fishing mate managed to lose his specs over the side, which makes a change from false teeth.

BillD, the washer hides socks between the two drums. Comes from putting a pile of stuff on the top and pushing it down into the inner drum. Odd escapees slip between the drums. You'll find the socks (chewed up) when the serviceman removes them from the pump.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 26 Oct 08 - 07:40 PM

I am incredibly near sighted -- I have to wear contacts all the time to get around.......but now I have to wear glasses, too, to be able to actually read anything...those little buggers go walkabout at least twice a week..........I can't believe at the advanced age of 59 I am back where I was at 13 -- can't find my glasses cos I can't see them!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Oct 08 - 03:09 AM

TRUBRIT - maybe you need a legrope like Rowan uses on his glasses.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Oct 08 - 02:11 PM

I looked out a NYC sky scrapper hotel window and glanced down in time to watch my glasses slip off my nose and fall gracefully dozens of stories to a couryard below.

They were recovered intact.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 12:02 AM

Sandra - a legrope?

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Skivee
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 12:52 AM

Ruth, I am terribly embarassed. I pushed aside a pile of books while pretending to clean up a bit and, errr,... I think I may have found them here. Did yours have two glass lensy bits held in place with a kinda wire frame? And these foldy earpiece dealies?
I blame the French.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 05:01 AM

No, those are Manitas's, he's always losing them because he leaves them on the table, knowing full well that the cats will knock them off onto the floor.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 07:15 AM

Trubrit

I think Rowan must be an old surfie as well as an old folkie - surfers use leg ropes to attach themselves to their board so they don't lose it when they fall off! (scroll down for pic)

Pic of Rowan here


sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Mr Red
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 07:20 AM

(last time this happened I had a different dog, who had eaten them.)
was he looking-up old friends?

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Rowan
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 06:03 PM

Very foxy, Sandra.

I do confess to being in the Point Leo Surf Club (Westernport Bay, where the surf rivals that of Tootgarook, on Port Philip Bay) but that was before surfers used legropes.

But I started my familiarity with legropes in South Gippsland, well before herringbones came into fashion, where dairy farmers would use a legrope to stop the cow kicking the cups off the teats or, for handmilkers, kicking the bucket over.

And I first tied my glasses on with one when climbing at Mt Arapiles, when I was a much younger fart. A friend had told me that the Vic. Optometry College was doing a deal for students who wanted contact lenses, whereby the prescription cost was waived and only the cost of the lenses was required of the student. Being very myopic (in most senses) I put off making an appointment for a while. At Mt Arapiles I was thrutching my way through an awkward bit of shrubbery about 150' up a new climb.

I'd taken the precaution of tying my specs on but they got flicked off. Fortunately they landed on my shoulder, as I was unable to see details of the rock ahead and couldn't even see my footholds in focus; I couldn't even tie off and abseil down, as my rope was the standard 120' and I would have been left 30' above the foot of the climb. Bother!!!

So I made an appointment to the VOC, turned up and waited my turn to be dealt with by one of the trainees. A young lady with a clipboard called my name and took me to the cubicles where the eye testing clobber was located; we sat in our respective places. After the 'name, rank & serial no.' stuff she asked,
"Why do you want contact lenses?"
"Why do you ask?" I responded.
"Most people say 'Sport', which is really just disguised vanity" she replied.
"Well, sport" I offered. "Actually, I've got three reasons for wanting them" I said.

I told her the Mt Arapiles story and followed it up with my irritation when, during winter, every time I walked into the Sports Union showers after a Judo Club night, the (cold) lenses of my glasses would instantly fog over in the humid atmosphere. I then described my third reason.

"They get in the way in situations of great propinquity" I said.
"Huh?" she grunted.
I explained, "When you're having a nice cuddly session with a lady you're interested in, the glasses get in the way. But if you take them off it has exactly the same effect as if you'd dropped your daks and whipped a condom out of your pocket! That's the end of that."
"Oh!" she commented and we continued with measuring my eyes.

A couple of years later I needed to go to the VOC for another appointment. The young lad who led me to the cubicle looked at the clipboard and commented, "You're a bit of a climber."
"How did you know that?" I asked.
"It's given here as one of the two reasons you wanted contact lenses" he replied.
"Only two reasons?" I asked.
"Yeah. The other was your glasses fogging up in the Sports Union."

So I told him the third reason and it transpired that the young lady (whose name I still remember) was now his practicum supervisor.
"Well, you get right up her about censoring people's reasons for wanting contact lenses," I said. "If wearing glasses gets in the way of a young man's courting behaviour and this can be rectified by wearing contact lenses, that's a perfectly good reason for wanting them."

But my reading glasses need a bit of a legrope so I can keep track of them.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Becca72
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 06:48 PM

I have to admit, thanks to a decent dose of OCD I very rarely lose anything.

Subject: RE: BS: Has anyone seen my glasses?
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 10:44 PM

Donuel reminded me....

When I was in college 40 years ago, I was working part time for the physical plant. A friend & I were on a rolling scaffold, about 30 ft. high, rewiring lights in a gymnasium ceiling. I looked over the edge and my glasses sliped off and did slow tumble (It felt like 10 minutes) to the wooden court. *SNAP*...didn't break the lenses, but snapped in half at the bridge.
   I was a POOR college student, so I drilled a hole in the plastic on each piece, cut off a small nail and epoxied the 2 halves together. Being a small joint under constant strain, it came loose and had to be redone every few weeks. (sometimes I cut small strips of tape to hold them till I could get more glue)
   I think I lived that way for over a year till I could afford to replace them.

I guess if I had actually lost them into never-never land, I'd have found the money sooner!