Earned another merit badge to geezer club

**J White** · 01-03-2026, 04:21 PM

Glasses, bifocals no less. Thank you Uncle Sam/VA. Maybe I can see to tie fishhooks again.

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**SuperDave336** · 01-03-2026, 04:32 PM

You’re lucky is you haven’t needed them before now. My eyes started going downhill when I got in my 40’s.

**BuckeyeCrappie** · 01-08-2026, 07:49 AM

It’s now official! Yer a geezer! Welcome to the ranks Jeff.

**jjue1979** · 01-08-2026, 09:49 AM

That's life, and you are lucky that you got to wait until later in life. I had quit wearing contacts for a while in my late 30s because of presbyopia because I couldn't see super close and far at the same time with a single prescription and needed to be able to look at wire harnesses in tight spaces at work. Once I turned 40, my Optometrist confirmed that I needed the reading prescription just to read at normal distances and had been wearing a progressive lens for a while. I had to swap to a multifocal contact lens to keep up with the kids' watersports activities, and I still need to wear reading glasses on top of that for detail work or pull the contacts out and wear my progressive lens glasses instead.