From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Good Glasses Cheap
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:38:56 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Madeleine Yeh" <myeh at wap.org>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 12:13 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Good Glasses Cheap

> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:52:44 -0400
>   "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > Glass lenses have been illegal in this country for 30 or
> >40 years, by
> > federal law, due to the potential for injury should the
> >glass break.   I
> > stayed with glass lenses I'd purchased in 1959 until the
> >mid-'80s for this
> > reason.   (At that point they were making plastic lenses
> >thin enough for me
> > to use them without unbearable distortion at the edges
> >-- my left eye
> > requires a strong correction.)
> >
> > --Ted White
> >
>    I bought glass lenses 5 or 6 years ago in Virginia.
>  All my previous lenses have been glass and I have bought
> them in Iowa, and Kentucky and Virginia.  I probably could
> have obtained glass lenses last time if I was prepared to
> be obstinate.

Interesting.  That means that a number of optometrists have lied to me over
the years.

--Ted White