This one threw me for a loop. Small trinkets and doodads can be dropped accidentally, and a child's toy can be left behind and forgotten about. But eyeglasses? Who accidentally loses the glasses off their face without noticing? Or if these were deliberately left behind for whatever reason, I think there would still be some appearance of deliberation -- like, wouldn't the owner have placed them aside at least, resting on a bench or hung on a fence or some such? I know I would have (although of course, I am subject to obsessive-compulsive tendencies). And why would anyone do such a thing anyway -- it's not as if eyeglasses were cheap and disposable. Did someone get into an argument, become all het up and fling them away in anger? Were they perhaps snatched off a victim by some delinquent, then chucked in a random spot? It just seems so odd to see them simply tossed out in the middle of a sidewalk.
EDIT: I took a closer look at the image, and it looks like one of the lenses is missing. But even so, why wouldn't you just get the frame fitted with a new lens, instead of throwing away the whole thing..?
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