Saturday, January 25, 2025

Errant Specs

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 intentionally left behind for whatever reason, I think there would at least be some signs of deliberation -- like, being put aside neatly folded and resting on a bench, or maybe hung on a fence or some such, instead of just being thrown out on a random sidewalk.  But anyway, why would anyone do such a thing?  It's not as if eyeglasses were cheap and disposable.  Did someone get into an argument, became all het up and fling them away in anger?  Were they perhaps snatched off a victim by some delinquent, then chucked away 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 fitted with a new lens, instead of throwing away the whole thing..?

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