By Kevin M
Has this ever happened to you? The arms (technical term “temple arms”) of your eyeglasses break at the joint forcing you to purchase a brand new pair of glasses? It’s happened to me three times in the past five years!
OK, if you’re not an eyeglass wearer, and no one in your immediate family is either, this post will hold little interest for you. But looking around at the general population it seems that despite the acclaimed shift toward contact lenses and radial keratotomy, the number of the bespectacled in the population remains substantial.
Perhaps like me, millions of one time contact users were forced to abandon them either by choice or necessity. Or, again like me, they find one-in-a-thousand chance of surgical error in RK to be too high on a sense as precious as eyesight. Either way, millions of us remain eyeglass users, and a substantial industry has been built around us.
But back on topic…obviously I’m doing something wrong in the way I’m storing or handling my glasses. I’ve been told to remove and hold them by the bridge, not by the arms, which I’ve been doing mostly, but they still break in the same place. I’m beginning to sense a conspiracy by the optometry world as some sort of plot of planned obsolescence to force me and other eyeglass wearers to buy a new pair at regular intervals. From an economic standpoint it’s a brilliant plan.
