Are they mine ?

I have at least ten pair of inexpensive reading glasses. I was forever losing them around the house and can’t read a thing without them. I ordered two multi-packs so now they’re everywhere. No need to search!

What I have been doing so as not to lose mine is, to print out my telephone number very small onto paper, then after cutting the narrow strip of paper, sellotaping it to the inside of one of the thicker parts of an arm of the glasses.
When on holiday, I printout the hotel name and their number and put it on the other arm.

I Actually got in someone else's car in a big car park one Christmas Eve.

It was either left unlocked or my key fob "bleep" had opened 2 cars (surely not!)...

I was really confused about all the "stuff"/gifts in the car but believed it was my car so that made no sense.. - it had my (I thought) my husband's coat on the back seat.... and a pair of froggy children's wellies in the footwell.

I sat looking at the gifts on the passenger seat for a while then called my husband (no reply). What was going on??
I waited a few minutes then got out to put something in the in boot.
I'd given my daughter a lift into town so maybe it was her shopping.... i tried to make sense of it..

... were these her gifts? How had she got in? Had my husband come into town in his car but bringing the spare car key ??? 🙄🤣...

In the boot was nothing that ought to be there but lots of other stuff...

Eventually I scanned the car park (for my husband and/or daughter).


THERE was my car! Just 2 cars along. Same colour same model same year!

Oh crikey!
... I couldn't get away quickly enough!

Duh!

Calli sooo funny - afterwards! 🤣👋

*Urms 😂

I spent ages looking for my car in a big carpark at an out-of-town shopping centre.
It was years ago and I didn't have a mobile phone, couldn't phone DH. I thought it had been stolen and was nearly in tears.
Then I remembered I'd taken DH's car.

Over 25y ago our eldest daughter drove to her Saturday job, using the family car. Late afternoon she rang saying she couldn’t unlock the door. (Key, not fob in those days). Himself went to a neighbour friend and they drove into the next town to the car park. Turned out she’d been trying to get in the wrong white Micra. She said afterwards “I wondered what all those caravan stickers were on the back windscreen!”. Duh.

I am loving this silly thread! Thank you all.

Ginny do you have an older photo of yourself wearing glasses where you could see which ones you used to wear?

DFiL used to drive his wife to the shops each day to pick up the messages and newspaper. He will have sat in the car with the engine running.

She recalls an occasion when she rushed out of the shop and jumped into a car and started telling the complete stranger the day's gossip.
She claimed later that the all cars and men were similar.

I once nearly sat in a lady's lap when I mistook her car for my rental car in the US. She was parked where I normally park when I grabbed my coffee on the way to work. Not sure who had the bigger shock (she actually looked quite terrified) and she was lucky I had hold of my coffee as she nearly got that too.

Somewhere in the world are two pairs of new prescription sunglasses. On two occasions I packed them, to take to Australia with me. On both occasions they disappeared, never to be seen again in either country. It's something that has puzzled me ever since. Is there such a thing as a 'suitcase black hole?'

My MIL had DH stopping with her but went on a day trip with her husband. She felt very poorly and he took her to the local hospital. After they examined her she was starting to feel a bit better and they passed her, her glasses she said they were not hers. She had grabbed DH's on her way out one of them was long-sighted the other short-sighted.
DH and his Brother both wear contact lenses after a full-on night out, next morning accidentally put each other lenses in, DH quipped "Who needs pints when you can just swap lenses".

I wear mine on a cord round my neck and have done for years. I can still lose them though!
They are only for close up so I take them off for walking, driving infact everything else.
I have several pairs but one favourite.

But think yourself lucky it's only specs and cars and possibly teeth

When my first baby was born he was put in the nursery with all the others and was brought to me at feed times, every 4 hours back then.
One time I unwrapped the swaddled babe and found he had become a girl!
Luckily the baby girl's mother noticed at about the same time so we swapped back but I sometimes wonder how many mistakes were made in the past. The worrying thing was both crying babies looked very similar.

Over 50 yrs ago when contact lenses were cumbersome things which took ages to arrive after ordering, a friendly dog licked and swallowed my left contact lens.
After 6 weeks a spare arrived and I promptly dropped and trod on it.
By the time yet another one arrived my eyes had become adjusted that I no longer had clear vision when wearing both and I’ve never worn a pair again.
My left eye is for reading and my right, with a contact lens, gives excellent long distance vision
I no longer use an optician except for an eye check up every now and then, but every one I’ve visited has tried to persuade me to use a pair of lenses. It’s annoying as I’d then need to wear glasses for reading!

That’s funny but also a nightmare when you can’t find your glasses which is why I first got varifocals, put them on when I get up take them off when I go to sleep - ALWAYS know where they are, on my nose 😂

I have prescription glasses and wear them all the time as they are varifocal. The last time I had new ones I chose some rather different from my usual style and was never quite sure if they suited me. Then one day while sitting at traffic lights I gave them a quick wipe and one lens fell out! I had to go back to wearing my old pair until the optician fixed them and I decided the old ones not only suited me better but I could see better with them too! I think the positioning of the varifocal lens must be better on the old pair even though the prescription was the same. At least I'm not in danger of leaving them anywhere as I wouldn't make it home without them.

they weren't pink but they are more feminine and he hasn't touched them, the cheeky bugger!

JaneJudge

this is funny

my work colleague has been wearing my glasses (they are just ones from wilko) and I asked him repeatedly not to use them and suggested he buy his own but he just carried on wearing them, so I had to buy some more!

I hope you bought pink ones 🤣

Years ago my late mum was on the committee if her bowling club and someone approached her after an event to say her coat wasn't in the cloakroom but a similar one was there. Trying to be helpful, my mum did a bit of detective work and tracked down the coat and arranged for them to swap back. The lady who had made off (accidentally it was presumed) with the wrong coat was most upset with my mum as the coat she'd taken by mistake was far superior.

While at a yoga class where we were doing some powerful stretches, the yoga teacher remarked we would go home a couple of inches taller. At the end we were getting dressed the woman next to me exclaimed ‘look it worked’! Her black trousers were indeed 2 inches too short. Then a voice said ‘I think you are wearing my trousers’. Both had the same pair of M&S trousers in different lengths!

I'll take any pair - lens just fallen out of mine !

I wouldn't trouble about it, if they are a cheap pair from any shop but if they are obviously bought at an optician's I would try to find the original owner, and ask everyone else who uses reading glasses to check whether they had mine.

I think at the next WI meeting, I would say, "Mrs Y gave me a pen I had forgotten at a meeting and my reading glasses. When I got home DH asked me when I had changed my specs, so is anyone wearing mine and as happy as I am with this pair, or is someone desperately looking for her reading glasses?"

Were they just bought for reading rather than prescribed? My husband wears those and loses them so frequently that I’m dreading him needing prescribed ones! As it is he has a pair by the loo, by his chair,bed and computer!

Laughed out loud at this thread! It’s usually the children in my room wearing my glasses!