Poll: Corrective lenses

[Ornery]

I have to wear damn eye protection at the machine shop all day long. I hate it, but I wear 'em. I figure, as long as I have to wear them anyway, might as well have the best vision possible, so I have them mildly corrected for near-sightedness. Trouble is, when I'm doing real close up reading it's hard to see with them on. The next stronger correction for seeing distance will demand having bifocals for the close work. BIFOCALS! Waaaaahhhh

BTW, I insist on having glass lenses instead of plastic for the scratch resistance. I know that's not very common by the reactions of the optometrists that make them. "Are you sure you want glass, they're so heavy?" Hell yeah, your damn plastic would be scratched inside of a week, screw that! :disgust:

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

I have 20/15.

Nik

 

[Cyberian]

<< The question that this poll raises is: what's wrong with the human eye if 76% of the respondents need to wear corrective lenses all the time? Is there something fundamentally wrong with modern eyes or are we obsessed with perfection (20/20 vision)? >>

You also probably have a statistically younger than average test sample here. I don't think people are obsessed with perfection, they just want to see what they are doing.

<--------------- started wearing glasses for driving when he was 53.