Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 01, 2012

Aw, come on, Sally — bifocals aren’t so bad. I’ve been wearing them for years now!

Stand your ground Sally!

just like marcie

Not bifocals in my case, but I recommended glasses in fifth grade; didn’t wear them until a few years after high school (and I still wear them).

I was given bifocals in first grade. A couple of years back I had a brain-scan after a stroke and discovered that yes, I needed them all those years. I was a preemie and the sight area of my brain never fully developed. Explains a lot.

Just looking at my school photo from 1954 austerity Britain and I can see that at least one little girl had sticking plaster over one lens of her NHS (National Health Service) glasses. I seem to remember that was the standard treatment for ‘lazy eye’ in those days. Cover the good eye to make the other eye ‘work’ ! I don’t know if it did work but I’m sure Sally would have hated it!

I had bifocals in first grade but was eventually weaned off of them for whatever reason. Still wear glasses, and 45 years later the doc is suggesting I go back to bifocals or progressives. Not sure I’m ready for that just yet.

I had to get glasses in the 4th grade…thought the world was going to end. After a couple of weeks of being called “four eyes” everything went back to normal. Funny how that works…

YEAH GO SALLY TURN DOWN THE HARRY POTTER LOOK!!!! BE FRESH

Poor Sally…

I don’t mind eye tests. Though it’s creepy as anything seeing the back of your eye on the computer screen.

xxx

True. One of the things I like about my bifocals (which I first started wearing about a month after I turned 46) is that you can’t tell they’re bifocals. Of course, the irony is that while they’re great for watching TV or reading at a distance, they’re useless for reading or doing anything up close (like working at a computer, for example) — in those situations, I actually do better without them!

I used to wear glasses. Then went through chemo and radiation for cancer. Don’t need them now. Same as i had gout but after treatments no more medicine. Don’t reccomend that treatment, just sayning

I’m fortunate enough not to need bifocals. I’m near-sighted and my close in vision – reading, working on the computer etc. – is close enough that bifocals would be a waste. Of course I have a family history of Macular Degeneration so long term I basically screwed.

Tried bifocals 2 times & hated them. Used to carry 4 pair of glasses so I could see at all distances. Finally got artificial lenses to make my right eye see at a distance and left eye up close. Works great for any distance between 1 foot and infinity.

I got bifocals in second grade (I believe). Not sure why I got them, but I had them for a year or two, then went back to regular glasses. Had laser surgery a few years ago, and perfect vision today.

I have bifocals – they are a good thing!

Well, at least nowadays they have bifocals without the visible lines in them.

‘Fraid not Donny, working laser was only 5 years old then, laser eye surgery wasn’t till 1989…you may be thinking of RK which started in Russia in 74.