re: #126 wrenchwench

I’ve been wearing glasses since 1966. I wore hard contacts for 10 years, and went back to glasses for a cross-country bike trip. They weren’t compatible with the bike trip because getting something in my eye required popping the lens out right away sometimes, and that’s just not practical on a bike ride. Plus the sanitary needs are not met while camping in weird places. My vision gradually changed for a year after quitting the hard lenses. Then I was in glasses for 35 years. Last July, I was switched to modern soft contacts to deal with a few vision problems from cranial nerve damage from when I was hit by a car 8 years ago. I got the one far/one near set up, and only then found out my older brother has those and so do a lot of people. I still reach to take off my glasses when I go to wash my face, or go to push them up my nose if I want to see something more clearly.

I do think that habits with glasses (such as reaching to adjust them) are a universal and shared experience.

So sorry to hear about you getting hit by a car and suffering injury. About 15 years ago a lady I was dating wanted to get into bike riding. So I got a bike. Shortly thereafter she found a love interest that fit her better. (Both really nice folks. I wish them well.)

Shortly after that, I decided that trying to ride a bicycle in the Washington DC metro area had more risks than I wanted to take on. (Like the sweet little old lady who stood on one side of the bike path while she let her leashed puppies wander over to the other side.)

That bicycle is currently gathering dust in my garage.