My glasses - the sequel.

This morning, because they're usually open Saturdays, I drove over to the Optometry to get new nose pads on my fancy Japanese frames. A nice little notice on the front door from Doctor Deb informs its readers that they're closed Saturday and Monday for the Thanksgiving Holiday. 

Oops! I hadn't been paying attention to the calendar. So I drove home, and on the way, I realized I have a quite a collection of former and complete  prescription frames - so why not take the pads off one of those and fix my own glasses, instead of waiting until Tuesday and squinting a lot with the old ones I restored to service?

Good idea! I've even kept a pair of those magnifier-only type drug store eye glasses from away back when. Slipping those over the former prescription ones gives me not-quite-Xray-vision. I grabbed my handy miniature set of screwdrivers, removed the pads from an old set of frames, put them onto these present ones, and voila! I can see normally again. So when I go back to visit Doctor Debbie, and she asks me to read the eye chart, and tell her what the bottom line says, I can honestly say "Made in U.S.A.". All of which goes to prove that necessity is still the mother of invention. Don't you just love happy endings?