On this day after Thanksgiving, I am thankful for being alive on this earth for as long as I have (49 and a half years and counting), but sometimes that advancing age can lead to interesting predicaments. For instance, this morning, I took a shower, walked back to my bedroom, then remembered that I hadn't put on any lotion (a must for my dry ass skin), plodded back down to the bathroom, lotioned up, came back the bedroom, then started a ritual that happens to me from time to time: trying to figure out where I left my glasses...
Did I have them on when I went to the bathroom? I walked back to the bathroom; nope, not there...
Well, hell, they must be in the bedroom; I haven't gone downstairs yet (wait, have I? Hmmm, no I'm sure I haven't been downstairs yet). So I go back to the bedroom, and proceed to walk around in a crouched over position (walk softly in case the damned things are on the floor!) with eyes squinted so as to try to improve my bad vision enough to make this game of Where's Waldo a short one. I tell you what, trying to find your glasses is a motherfucker when you don't have your glasses on to help you...
And then, lightbulb time: hey, idiot, you DO have another pair of glasses. How's about we put THOSE on so we can find the missing ones...you at least know where THEY are...
The second pair was on my dresser in its case. Put them on, and voila, in no time, I found my missing pair sitting right on the bed where I left them. I guess since the glasses are close in color to my comforter, they blended in enough so that my old eyes couldn't see them.
I'm just glad the lotion was in the bathroom instead of the bedroom; I might have sat down on the bed to lotion myself and "found" those glasses in a much less pleasant way...
As a member of the nearly blind club, I'm thankful that I have kids I can enlist to crawl under my bed, look behind the drawer etc for my glasses. Viva small children with 20/20 vision!
ReplyDeleteI know this all to well. I have actually called my son on the phone to ask him if he seen my cell phone. You would never guess were the phone was.....yeap i was using it. I usually fine my glasses after about ten minutes of searching pushed up on my head
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