Sinister: I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals

[jay]

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From: "Laura Llew" <lleweth at xxx.com>
To: <sinister at missprint.org>; <ahab0125 at aol.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 8:37 PM
Subject: Sinister: I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals


> Thinking of Dorothy Parker - and really when aren't you - I recall Archel
> quoting her in the news flash of:
> Men seldom make passes
> At girls who wear glasses
> Here! Here! My recently bespectaled face can surely attest to that one. I
> must say that I'm getting tired of the cop out compliment of, "they make
you
> look more intelligent."  Since when did the presence of glasses make
anyone
> look stupid? With the exception of a picture I have of my friend wearing
> lensless crooked glasses while licking a road in Acadia National Park in
> Maine, I can't really say that I've known anyone to look as a moron while
> wearing them. So why do people say it?
> Will you realize that was a rhetorical question?
> (Depends on if you're wearing glasses or not, I bet)


in short:

there is a woman i work with.  hopeless case.  a bit older, married, the
whole thing.  (why this is a pattern i don't know, but i wish it would
stop).  i try not to stare at her.  she's just started wearing glasses every
day.  it is now nearly impossible not to stare.

jay, who would make passes if for once they would just be single!!!  (and i
have never uttered that "intelligent" compliment, though it would probably
just be a polite mask for "oooooh  ahhhhhh"

(deep, calming breath)

"i never thought that i would end up here, maybe i should just change my
style"

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