bifocals

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I wear bifocals. Unfortunately, I can't just leave them on all the time because the computer screen is too far for reading glasses (and too high) and too close for distance glasses. I'm better without glass to see the screen, unless the print is small, and then I have to crane my neck to look through the lower part of the bifocal. Trying to have a conversation with someone in a noisy environment also tends to put me in the "too close-too far" zone. So I'm always taking my glasses on and off, but at least I only have one pair of glasses to look for. Maybe I really need trifocals, with plain glass in the middle.

It took me a few months to get used to the bifocals. Going down stairs is challenging for awhile, as is hiking down steep trails. You just have to remember to use your neck so you're not seeing the ground through the reading glasses (fuzzy stairs, fuzzy rocks). Driving has the same problem - you can see the road fine through the upper lens, but the instrument panel is fuzzy through the reading lens (remember to move neck). Also, if you have the bifocals with lines like I do, you get to see double images of anything that the line passes through - sometimes that's nice, sometimes it's not. I prefer my bifocals to any alternatives, but sometimes it sucks to need them.

I do ride my bike in bifocals.