I'm looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

[venta]

Some advice to glasses wearers - get one of those little screw-driver jobs and tighten the screws which hold the lenses in the frames. Go on - never mind whether they're looking loose or not, just give 'em a twist.

Otherwise, a lens will drop out of your prescription sunglasses without warning and, if you're moving at a brisk pace, you'll tread on it before you realise what's happened.

Bollocks.

Comments

[cuthbertcross.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that's so annoying! I had a similar thing happen to me (the falling out, not the breaking) but it's not all bad as when I eventually got new ones, Purple was in (so I have Metallic purple perscription shades. Hoorah.)

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

What I still cannot understand is why so many glasses manufacturers design their glasses so that those little screws have their heads pointing downwards! Surely the simple device of making sure gravity is on your side is not beyond these people?

[venta.livejournal.com]

But then the glasses would last longer, and we wouldn't have to fork out the extortionate price for replacement so often.

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

They are evil geniuses of marketing and must be stopped.

[kneeshooter]

A previous pair of glasses was quite loose - and I once while skiing I lost a lens first into my goggles, then when I took the goggles off the lens dropped into a foot or so of snow. And to cap it all it was in the middle of a blizzard and during a ski lesson. The rest of the group got ahead of me, and after about 10 minutes of trying to put things together and de-ice the instructor walked back up the slope and muttered disparigingly at me in German. At least, that was the sense I had.

[eostar.livejournal.com]

I have a pair of glasses that are literally held together by a thread. When the screw fell out, I couldn't find it, so I had to resort to sewing them together with stout thread:)

On the subject of screwdrivers and other tools ... If you don't already have a well equipped tool box I can recommend this nifty little tool kit from PC World. It includes a small screwdriver for tightening the screws in your glasses, pliers, and wirecutters, among other useful tools. It's size means it's very portable and could be toted round in your handbag ;-)

[venta.livejournal.com]

That's remarkably tempting - I specialise in having unexpected and useful things in my handbag :)

(Sadly, I also specialise in thinking "sod it", stuffing my wallet, keys and phone in my pockets and leaving my handbag at home.)

[eostar.livejournal.com]

Handbags are optional ;-)

[j4.livejournal.com]

The tiny-tiny screwdriver that winds into the corkscrew on a certain variety of Swiss Army Knife is very good for this. Also for tightening flute keys. Apparently.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I have a purposely-designe teeny-tiny screwdriver especially for glasses screws. It has a built in magnifier so you can see what you're doing without your glasses on and everything.

Sadly, I didn't know the screw was loose and thus hadn't applied the screwdriver in the relevant way.

[liriselei.livejournal.com]

my screws start coming loose all the time, i have to tighten them every day or so.

same with my glasses... < ba-dum, tish ! >

[sea-of-flame.livejournal.com]

There's a reason I go for screw-less glasses :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

You can get screwless glasses ?

Ah, do you mean the ones that are just bendy rather than hinged ?

[sea-of-flame.livejournal.com]

I have one pair that are bendy (and only half-framed, so they don't have screws around the lenses either), and one pair that are hinged, but use a clever arrangement that mean the hinge itself doesn't have a screw in it (so the moving part of the glasses doesn't have anything to fall out ;)