Midlife’s A Trip

Midlife Moment — Reading Glasses A Must

Posted on 14. Jan, 2008 by Karen in Midlife Moments

This is the first in my series of Midlife Moments.  Midlife moments are just those quirky odd little experiences that are unique to this time of life.  If you have a moment you’d like to share that’ll make us all either laugh or appreciate the little glitches in the journey through midlife, please post a comment.  And now for my midlife moment #1: 

Yesterday morning I got up and headed half awake into the bathroom to wash my face.  A glance in the mirror at my “morning face” without make-up convinced me that I should some astringent–thought it might my skin look tighter or something.  So I opened the cabinet under the sink, spotted the bottle of blue-green astringent and pulled it out.   I dabbed a little on with a cotton wipe and headed downstairs to make coffee.

Fifteen minutes or so later I went back up to the bathroom–now with my reading glasses on.  I glanced at the bottle of astringent I’d left on the counter and realized with horror that it was, in fact, the new aloe scented blue-green nail polish remover I’d bought recently, largely because it didn’t smell like nail polish remover.  As the realization hit that I had just wiped nail polish remover all over my face, I turned on the water and plunged face first into the sink hoping to avert whatever awful reaction to the nail polish remover I was starting to dream up. 

Well everything turned out OK.  Instead of breaking out in hives, I broke out in laughter on the lesson learned about the times when reading glasses are a must.  So, for starters, if I want to really see what I need to see, I’ll always use my reading glasses to:

• Read the label on anything under the sink
• Shop for anything
• Put on make-up
• Read a menu or
• Determine whether the spot on the wall is a spider or not.

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