One of the first signs of aging is not putting on a little weight or realising that throwing a ball with the children actually hurt your body. It’s when you are served chipotle dip when you thought you had pointed to chicken on the menu. The word certainly looked like chicken. You had gone to a lot of trouble by moving the menu in and out trying to find the perfect angle to make sure you were able to correctly read the fine print.

Don’t forget the squinting too. Frequent squinting combined with the arm motions intended to place the reading material at the ideal distance is a sure sign someone is dealing with aging eyes.

There are other ways to spot people who need reading glasses. Not able to see the screw slots while doing repairs with a screwdriver around the house? Are you unable to thread the needle? Having trouble reading the instructions that came with the new television? Thought that price tag said $3.00 when it really said $8.00? Frequently find yourself asking friends or family "Can you read this for me please?"

Being Unable to Read Fine Print is Not Funny

If you can answer yes to any of these questions, then it’s time to buy reading glasses. Discovering you need eye glasses can be a bit of a shock to some people. In days past reading glasses were big, bulky…and let’s admit it…ugly. They had huge black or brown frames that turned you into an alien-looking creature when worn. People would avoid buying reading glasses as long as possible and then after a purchase hide them at home to wear secretly. Between being bulky and ugly they seldom made their way into purses or shirt pockets.

Of course there are also those people who buy reading glasses and then spend a lot of their time looking for them. The old joke about someone looking for glasses they pushed up on the head is not really a joke. It happens all the time. Eye glasses:

* Get shoved to the back of drawers
* Misplaced in cluttered purses and bag
* Fall off tables and break
* Left at the last place where they were worn
* Forgotten at work

Reading glasses left behind don’t provide any benefit when you need them (unless upon discovery someone else borrows them to read with).

That’s why someone invented the string or chain worn around the neck that holds glasses in a loop. You don’t lose them but eye glasses swinging on a chain do nothing for your outfit and can actually become a nuisance. They hit the desk or table or get in the way when bent over a filing cabinet drawer. Many people get tired of the string rubbing their neck skin.

Manufacturers have tried to make neck string or chain holders for eye glasses look trendy and appear as if they are part of an ensemble but without much success. When was the last time you saw a celebrity wearing an eye glass string or chain made of seashells or a rhinestone encrusted string? It was probably about the time the early rock and roll artist Buddy Holly performed in Australia in 1958 and bulky eye glass frames were the only choice.

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