This is a picture of me minutes after I lost my eyeglasses. I was taking taking two of my nieces on a jet ski ride and they wanted to do some tricks. So I did a few tricks. Tight turns basically and we all went flying.
These were not just any old pair of eyeglasses. These were prescription glasses. Expensive sunglasses. I wish I had a picture to show you because they were awesome. They were multi colored with shades of gray and lavender all swirled together. Not the greatest description but they rocked. Mostly because they held my hair up perfectly when I wore them as a head band, which was more frequently than I wore them as glasses.
I was berated for wearing my eyeglass frames as a hairband by my optometrist but they just did such a wonderful job, and it was a habit, I couldn’t stop. To this day I only choose glasses that don’t have the little nose thingies on them because they get tangled in my hair.
Anyway, We flew off the jet ski and surprisingly the shades stayed on my head. It wasn’t until I went underwater to get my hair out of my face that I lost them. When I came up I noticed my niece waving her arms and pointing to the water. Since I had water in my ears I couldn’t hear her but I looked to see my glasses floating down to the bottom of the lake.
Ever try diving underwater with a life jacket on? It doesn’t work. Those suckers keep you floating no matter how hard you try to go under.
The lake is 70 feet deep right there.
My glasses remain at the bottom of the lake. I think about them often because they looked so great. I doubt mine are the only ones at the bottom but I also doubt the DNR, or whoever drains lakes, would do such a thing just so I could get the pair back.
I did get another pair to replace the ones sitting at the bottom of the lake but they don’t stay on top of my head so well when used as a hairband. The look great on my face but what good are they if I can’t hold my hair back with them?
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So that’s the trick to utilizing your glasses as a headband – get the ones without the nose thingy! Mine gets tangled in my hair every time… 😉
Sorry you lost your glasses and the new ones don’t work as well as a hair band. And yes, it would be impossible to dive with a life jacket on – at least you know the life jacket actually works! 😉
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I felt your pain when I read your story. I used to wear prescription sunglasses and I had a pair I loved. I held onto then through hell and high water (in addition, replacing those suckers is expensive). After I had laser eye surgery, I stopped wearing prescription glasses but I still use my sunglasses as a headband. Unfortunately I then can’t find them when I want them back on my face.
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I left a comment but I don’t know what happened to it. If it has disappeared, I just want to say that it was too brilliant to recreate. If it is there, well, then forget it.
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Staci: Yes, don’t get the eyeglasses with the doo-hicky things on the nose. But don’t tell the person who is fitting the glasses because they frown on the expensive prescription eyeglasses as a $2 headband idea.
Anne: For some reason everything is going into the spam folder. I don’t know why, it isn’t as if you haven’t left a million comments here before.
I use my glasses for driving mostly, at least that is what I am supposed to do. My dad was an ophthalmologist so he always corrected me more than necessary. I recently was prescribed reading glasses so now I have bifocals which make me nauseous so I don’t wear them that often.
After I lost these glasses I went back to my old ones that I have managed to hang onto to for nearly 15 years. They are a Gucci pair in a leopard print. I’ve replaced the lenses a couple of times because they hold my hair back perfectly.
That is a bummer. I had prescription sunglasses in high school. Until I wised up and got contacts.
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I was never comfortable wearing glasses on my head. I’ve tried bit it always feels weird.
However, I do need reading glasses and I was always leaving them around and couldn’t find them when I needed them. I have started using one of those strings that keep the glasses hanging around your neck when not in use. Everyone teases me about looking like an old lady but I love having my glasses right where I need them at all times. Not getting rid of the string!
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Gosh, I feel for you…nothing worse that losing your glassses to the bottom of the lake or in the ocean (don’t ask!).
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I have worn glasses since I was 6. Now I have 4 pairs. Ugh.
Bifocals and all.
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Kristina: I can’t do contacts, though I did wear some funky ones when I was clubbing, though they weren’t prescription just colored.
Buggys: I actually had a string for the ones I lost but I took them off right before I left to go on the jetski. they were specifically for that purpose of getting thrown off the boat. They were just one more thing hanging from me so I didn’t wear them. I should have them for my reading glasses since someone runs off with them so the dog can read. If they were around my neck it wouldn’t happen.
Suzi: I have to ask, what’s the story?
Pricilla: I have a whole junk drawer filled, yes, I haven’t gotten around to organizing it like I said I would. One day.
I wear contacts but I do use my non-prescription sunglasses as a headband all the time. They also have to be tight enough to not slip down all the time. I’m pretty rough on them but have never lost them in a lake. (Probably because I can’t swim.)
xoxo
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Now I just want to write about penis (although in the spam emails they call it the love rod) or Viagra to see if I end up in the spam folder again.
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Now how did I miss this post? SO sorry about your shades… that stinks. But I had to laugh outloud at the thought of you attempting to dive down with your life jacket on… I’m thinking duck-like dive, rear end sticking up in the air. Too funny. Would have given a million dollars for a video.
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Tracie: I have a pair that I have worn while riding a motorcycle for 600 miles and they never got lost, left at a hole in the wall bar or flew off. On the other hand I have lost several pair that just flew off going down a hill.
Anne: It did go to spam but I think it was Viagra that got you there and not penis.
Katherine: You missed it because I posted it and then posted another on top of it right away. Yes, very duck like. If I’d had my camera with me it would be down at the bottom of the lake as well.
Hi there! I definitely understand your pain of losing your glasses. I wear prescription glasses and would truthfully be blind without them. Thanks for joining the Blog Hop. I’m following you now. Love your blog. I’ll be back later to read more.
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That’s why I wear contact lens. I do the whole sunglasses as headband thing though. I just don’t go under water with them. Actually, I don’t go under water at all.
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My sister always wears sunglasses as her hair accessory. She even has her hair cut to accommodate the glasses pushed up. I don’t do that, but it could be because I have a lumpy head and I don’t wear glasses anyway.
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Hahaha, yeah it’s a bit tricky diving with a life vest on. OMG…that was the best part of your post. The rest was just sucky….sorry about your glasses. 😉
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You mean you don’t have insurance? I guess that explains the red hair.
“basically and we all went flying” :)) Can I quote you on this? Next time take me with you!
hello,
it is really a bad news i can understand the pain of loosing your expensive glasses because i have also face this .