{"id":34868,"date":"2026-11-11T08:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T13:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=34868"},"modified":"2026-11-11T08:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T13:34:11","slug":"old-shades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/11\/old-shades\/","title":{"rendered":"OLD SHADES"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nYou know how when you lose something and find it, it\u2019s a great high. It’s almost worth losing the object just for the thrill of finding it.<\/p>\n

I recently found my lost prescription sunglasses and had the opposite reaction: I felt stupid, stunned and dejected. I had lost my sunglasses on a bus in Ireland in July. I immediately wrote the bus company that my sunglasses had been in my backpack in the bus’ overhead bin.<\/p>\n

No luck. The Irish wrote back . . .<\/p>\n

Unfortunately\u00a0 after looking through all our Buses your glasses have not been found, however if they do turn up at some stage I will contact you through this email address.<\/em><\/div>\n
Hope you enjoyed your trip to Glendalough and Ireland as a whole.<\/em><\/div>\n
Kind regards<\/em><\/div>\n
St. Kevin’s Bus Service<\/em><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

In Cleveland I dug up my recent Cleveland Clinic eyeglass prescription (from an annual opthamologist appointment) and went to\u00a0my neighborhood eyeglass store to get new shades. I could have gone to Walmart, like my wife does, but I prefer my neighborhood optical store, which is expensive and snooty; however, I like walking there. I got the new shades. I can\u2019t tell you how much they cost because my wife would flip out.<\/p>\n

The new shades made me dizzy. The\u00a0 store owner said,\u00a0 \u201cTry it for a week. You need to adjust.”<\/p>\n

I tried the shades for a week and didn’t adjust! I felt dizzy the whole time. I\u00a0booked a semi-retired optometrist who occasionally worked out of the cubbyhole space at the back of the eyeglass store. He gave me a refraction and told me my prescription from the vaunted Cleveland Clinic was wrong. The optometrist said, \u201cCheck these new glasses out. I\u2019m going to Indiana for a week to visit family, and if they don\u2019t work, let me know.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new shades worked.<\/p>\n

I flew to Chicago last month to visit my grandkids. My backpack has a compartment just for laptops. I never use that section. When I unpacked my stuff in Chicago, I found my old shades in the never-used compartment. My old sunglasses from Ireland!<\/p>\n

Now what? My old shades are useless and prehistoric. I regret finding them. I’m pissed I endured a week of dizziness. because the Cleveland Clinic botched my prescription, and I had\u00a0lot of extra costs, like for the semi-retired man’s refraction.<\/p>\n

I have my “Irish” shades. I wish I didn’t.<\/p>\n

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Old shades<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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