Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:45:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Good Glasses Cheap
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

herrimank at verizon.net wrote:

> I just ordered a reading pair of glasses for Bill and they only cost
> me $38 plus shipping.

Unfortunately, most of us in fandom are nearsighted, not farsighted.
Reading glasses ("plus" diopters) can be purchased inexpensively off
the shelf at any drugstore.  Glasses for nearsightedness ("minus"
diopters) require a prescription, and inexplicably cost an order
of magnitude more.