Posted on 09/11/2017 11:03:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
They usually carry reading glasses up to about +3. . . . and up until the 1950s, some even carried some generic distance glasses with minus diopters. If you have more complicated eye sight problems such as astigmatism, then an over-the-counter set of glasses is not going to be much help.
People need people. Of course this does not apply if the other people are trying to rob you, kill you, or enslave you. No one needs those people.
In summation, people need a free republic rather than a socialist state.
I really don’t care for the Twilight Zone. Feels dark and fairly foreboding.
Doesn’t the final scene of that episode show Bemis reaching for a revolver?
He easily could have raided an optometrist’s office and found suitable replacement specs.
No waiting for an appointment or paying a deductible. Plus a wide choice of designer frames!
worthless entertaining books
My favorite will forever be A Stop in Willoughby. But this one was a gem too.
Self sufficiency is the goal and globalists are trading in slave labor and pocketing the difference.
As an America you have no Constitutional rights to trade freedom outside the USA. None. Zip. Zitch.
RE: My favorite will forever be A Stop in Willoughby.
Was that about the stressed out salesman who wanted only to live in a simple, carefree place?
Reading glasses sold at drug stores are not prescription glasses. I should have used that term. They are not the same:
https://www.aclens.com/Content/Display/161
The bank teller in the TZ episode had horrible eyesight and I doubt that cheap wallgreen glasses would have helped. He also would have had to walk over the rubble nearly blind to find a store that was not vaporized by the blast.
So if the rest of the world disappeared then the USA would not be able to survive? Really? What utter BS. The globalists are grasping at straws.
They would at least allowed him to see enough to grind some new ones!..................
By the way, a recent caller to the Dennis Prager Show who was a young person who had recently discovered the Twilight Zone show as I recall, stated that in his opinion although Rod Serling was a leftist, the show’s messages were usually quite conservative.
I vote for the first. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
The definitions were a bit different that then than they are now.
By today’s standards, John Kennedy would be a conservative....................
That gets my vote as best episode.
The movie “Castaway” with Tom Hanks was a great example of someone managing to live alone.
On that I can agree. The poor eyesight of the bank teller, as shown by his Coke bottle glasses, could be approximated by using multiple lenses stacked up adding more and more magnification until he could read the page. Not the optimal solution, but workable.
I always thought, from the first time I saw the episode when it first aired, that he was not too bright, and not a forward thinker, entirely driven by someone else's ideas. He had stacked his books he intended to read out in the weather; the first good rain and/or wind would have ruined them beyond use. That does not demonstrate good thinking at all, just as being careless with his all-too-important spectacles did not as well.
He'd have to settle for a trial frame and round stacked trial lenses. . . with his corrected vision found by trial and error, swapping out different mixes of trial lenses until he found a close approximation. Without the specialized knowledge, he still probably wouldn't get it right.
He just needed cheaters for reading. He could get 100 pairs in a raid on Walgreens.
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