After reading these hilarious articles by Elite Daily, Mamamia, Thought Catalog and Buzzfeed, we decided to take the best points from each article, and make one big list of the struggles that spectacle wearers face all the time. If you wear glasses, we are sure you will able to relate to some of these!
Here are the many problems we bespectacled folk encounter on the regular:
1. Not being able to see in the middle of the night
Those markings on the wall aren't from bumping parties; they're from using it as a crutch in the dark as you make:your way to the bathroom. Ditto for turning off the alarm clock in the morning.
2. You actually don’t know what you look like with your glasses off
Because, without your glasses on your just a beautiful blurred version of yourself in the mirror. I guess there’s always photographs to turn to.
3. Getting a haircut
We literally need to have blind faith in our stylist, because we won’t be able to see any of what they’re doing to our hair until they’re all done and we can finally put our glasses back on.
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4. For fog sake
That annoying fog that happens when you drink any hot beverage, eat soup, open the oven or engage in any form of cooking. Basically any sudden change in temperature really.
5. 3D Movie
HAHAHAHAHA no I will not see that unless we go to the regular showing. If we went to the 3D, you would have a grand old time, and I would spend two hours holding two pairs of glasses to my face.
Source: http://coub.com and http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/ and http://www.cnet.com/
6. You’ve begrudgingly handed your glasses over to twenty people in the past week.
“Can I try on your glasses?”
“Yeah, um, maybe? Here you go.”
“Oh my goodness, your eyes must be horrible! I can’t see a thing!”
7. Wondering when the day will come when you are fully blind
At the rate you're losing your eyesight, you are seriously questioning your body's ability to hold out. Sometimes, if you rub your eyes just a little too long, you really freak yourself out with the thought that you have spontaneously gone blind.
8. The embarrassment of looking for our glasses… while wearing our glasses.
It never hits us that we can actually see while looking for our glasses until we’ve been wandering around for several minutes. Hopefully we didn’t ask for anyone’s help while looking for them.
9. Sweating.
Going to the gym with glasses is the worst. We spend just as much time pushing our glasses back up our face as we do on any given work out.
10. Looking extremely embarrassing in old photos of yourself
I wonder if we'll eventually feel the same way about thick-rimmed glasses as we do about the 90s wire frames.
11. Impromptu sleepovers are not an option
Do they have solution? Do you require sight in the morning? What are your feelings on sleeping in contacts and waking with dry eyes?
12. Rainy days.
We always joke that someone needs to invent windshield wipers for glasses, but actually? Please help. You can’t drive in the rain without them, why do you trust us to walk in the rain just as blind?
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13. Falling asleep with them on.
And I can’t find them when I wake up. Looking for them turns into a glacially slow excavation. Rolling over to get out of bed becomes terrifying because what if I accidentally roll on top of them and break them?
Source: http://zelish-eldritch9.tumblr.com/, http://www.funpedia.net/ and http://www.clubdelcane.com/
14. If your female, the shaving of the legs in the shower.
We think we got everything, but as soon as we get out of the shower and check our handiwork, we see that our legs actually look like zebras. Nice try.
15. Nowhere to put them down
Options include: stretching out the neck of your t-shirt, lame lanyard around your head like a paranoid tourist or on top of your head like sunglasses. No where is as convenient as the actual case.
16. Swimming
We'll never really know what underwater is truly supposed to look like.
17. Asking for help to read the menu
This is more like, “Your mom's glasses problems.”
18. Eyeglass tan
Yes, they are real and they affect 99 percent of all perennial glass-wearers. Thanks to our nifty eyeglass tans, it looks like we're wearing our specs when they're not even on our face.
19. Sunshine
Unless you're that person who dons the tinted kind, you own about seven different pairs of prescription sunglasses and never have the ones you want to wear on you.
20. Sore nose and ear
Those indentations complement your face nicely.
21. Everything about roller coasters.
Do you wear them and risk them falling off, or do you pay for a locker to put them in and then not be able to see the entire ride?
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But despite all the struggles, you know you look dead sexy with those specs on and love em to bits!
Did we leave anything out? Can you think of another struggle that needs to be mentioned! Tell us in the comments section.
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Date Published: 12 May 2016
