On the subject of spectacles...

[Melvil]

...what's your prescription?

Mine is -4.0 in both eyes so I consider myself fairly impaired when out and about without them. Anyone much worse?

 

[Crackle]

short sighted too -3.0 and -3.5

It's a real bugger age, 'cause now I can't read with my specs on, have to lift them up.

So today with my contacts in, I had to adjust my seat halfway through the ride. Course I can't see the spanners close up with lenses in so had to hold everything at arms length: To anyone driving past it must'a looked like I was defusing a bomb

 

[domd1979]

-6.75 / -6.25 ....

 

[Melvil]

-6.75 / -6.25 ....

Respect!

 

[domd1979]

As a random aside, my un-corrected eyesight isn't up to standard for main line train driving, so there goes that career option!!

 

[4F]

-4 / -2

 

[fossyant]

-3 about..and that's hard to live with without glasses to hand..............

 

[Maz]

-2/-2

 

[Melvil]

-3 about..and that's hard to live with without glasses to hand..............

An (un)fascinating fact about -3.0 uncorrected is that in the UK it is the dividing line for prospective air traffic controllers....as I found out a while back!

 

[Plax]

-1.25 / -1.75

At least I'm nowhere near as blind as some of you . I have an astigmatism in my left eye hence the difference.
The last time I had my eyes tested apparently they had deteriorated slightly but didn't warrant a new prescription. That was 2 years ago and I'm too scared to go back! "Well MsPlax, I'm afraid to say your eyesight has substantially worsened. Would you like to try these jam jars out for size"

 

[fossyant]

-3 uncorrected for air traffic folk - I can't find the light switch......

 

[fossyant]

Plax you have to go - when your eyes jump a few points you get a bit hissed off.. they settle down when you get near 40 like me.... but even -3's need the lightweight lenses for lightweight frames........bugger........

 

[HLaB]

An (un)fascinating fact about -3.0 uncorrected is that in the UK it is the dividing line for prospective air traffic controllers....as I found out a while back!

-3.75 / -4.75, guess I wont make an air traffic controller.

I never wore glasses when I left school but in the 15 yrs since

 

[Melvil]

I guess the one good point about myopia is walking down the street without glasses on and everything is all hazy and wierd and its sort of like being pleasantly tipsy (or at least I find it that way!)*








* Right up until the bit where you have to cross the road, of course.

 

[pzycoman]

-1 / +0.25

Not sure why im short in one eye and long in the other...