A Tale of Two Lenses

I think the boys should have sunglasses, and wear them regularly when they're outside. The sun has never done anyone's eyes any good.

Because the boys' heads are getting too big for little kids' sunglasses, I recently had no choice but to buy them small adult sunglasses, which cost about $15 each. I told them to be extra careful with these, because glasses that don't have Spiderman(tm), Transformers(tm), or Shrek(tm) on them cost a pretty penny.

A few days later, M told me his sunglasses broke. (I bet you didn't see that coming.) There is a round hole through the lens part of the glasses that the screw goes through to attach the arm - the rear half of the round hole was broken off, so the screw had nothing to go through.

I decided to fix it instead of getting a new pair of sunglasses. There are times when something more or less disposable like this breaks, and I refuse to throw it out. It seems like an insignificant thing, but I knew I could fix it.

I cut a piece of sprue from the model kit of a sub that M and I are building and superglued it to the back of the broken piece. Then I drilled a small hole through the resulting glob of discolored plastic with a pin vise, and used some small files I have to shape the rest of it to size. I put the arm back on and handed them to M, who was pretty surprised to see I had fixed them.

So there. Now you know I have a low tolerance for throwing out things that can be fixed, and you also know why M will never borrow my Ray Bans.