Getting glasses - not like "Joe 90"!

Sorting out some glasses finally. Really been having trouble seeing lately. Even the telly is a bit blurry. Is getting hard to read news articles online too, straining my eyes to do so. Worried I'll start getting headaches or something if I didn't do something soon. 

My main concern was to not look like Joe 90. I even mentioned that to the staff at SpecSavers, only to get "Who's Joe 90?". *gasp*

Joe 90 was very big in New Zealand on the one TV channel we had. A kids show about a super duper spy guy who went about doing super duper spy stuff for the good of the good guys. Or something like that. He was actually a puppet on strings, sort of like Thunderbirds, only British.

But those glasses!  Ugh, WTF was with those glasses? In fact it became a joke throughout New Zealand about people who wore glasses that looked remotely like that. The laugh would be "You look like Joe 90!"

So I didn't want to do that and become the brunt of my entire childhood mocking of his glasses. Unfortunately a lot of glasses these days do appear to be reminiscent of Joe 90. What are people thinking? Don't they know every New Zealander will piss themselves laughing at the mere sight of them?

Anyway, got all tested and using the super money I got out to get them. Some wire framed ones curved in the right places to look nothing at all like our illustrious Joe 90 hero. Turns out my vision is really fucked. Both near and far. Need multi prescription lenses. Got some anti-glare this and that, good for hours in front of the PC. $290 altogether. But needed them badly. Plus why not? It's my money, I worked  for it. Why not have decent glasses. I'll be using them every day. 

Here's the theme tune to Joe 90. The glasses appear late in the piece. Apparently they were only worn on special occasions.