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Weekly Newspaper and Travel Guide for Pecos Country
of West Texas
Opinion
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Squarely Pegged
By Peggy McCracken
Who wears glasses
in the shower?
How does a blind person distinguish between shampoo and conditioner while taking a shower? I’m not blind, and I can’t read the small type on those big bottles.
Doesn’t anyone up there realize that nobody goes into the shower with their glasses on? I went around several days with dirty hair because I mistook my daughter’s conditioner for shampoo. Maybe the fact it didn’t lather should have alerted me that I had the wrong bottle.
Shampoo bottles are not the only thing that’s hard to read without glasses. Telephone books are another. I couldn’t count the number of times I have raced to the phone without glasses, only to have the caller ask me for someone else’s number. Even if I can find a current phone book, I can’t read it bare-eyed. And who knows where my glasses are?
Computer screens are hard to read with or without bifocals. I have to keep a pair of single-vision glasses nearby just for computer monitors and piano music because the distance from eye to screen/music falls between the two focal lengths of bifocals. Forget trifocals. Been there, done that. Got nauseated.
I’ve noticed lately that street signs are getting smaller and impossible to read from a block away. Even with glasses.
My late husband preferred small-screen television sets, and they do have sharp pictures. I am having to hitch my chair closer and closer to see the characters, so maybe a bigger screen would be better. It might help me read the actors’ lips so I can understand what they are saying. I keep the volume so loud I can’t hear the phone ring. No telling what else I miss.
One thing about getting old and decrepit is that you don’t know what you’re missing and don’t really care. Hot food, a warm shower, soft bed and some excuse to get outside in the sunshine provide about all I really need.
What difference does it make if my hair gets greasy and falls limply around my blind eyes and deaf ears?
“What does a man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun?” Eccl. 1:3, NIV
EDITOR’S NOTE: Peggy McCracken is Enterprise columnist and feature writer. Contact her at peg2@pecos.net
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