Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 06:21:06 -0400
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Good Glasses Cheap
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> 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.

Indeed.  When I was wearing contact lenses and my near vision started to
go, my optometrist recommended the "drugstore" glasses.  Under $10, if I
remember correctly.

This looks very much like spam.

--
Steve Smith                             sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                     http://www.aginc.net
"Time is supposed to keep everything from happening at once.
  Why doesn't this work in practice?"