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   johnnydoc5 said, 4 months ago

   Jon’s getting old. That’s a shame.

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   Jackknife15 said, 4 months ago

   Know the feeling. :-(

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   JosePeterson said, 4 months ago

   It’s Stretch Arbuckle

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   Risinya said, 4 months ago

   Either that or he just got a bill, and doesn’t want to believe what he’s seeing

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   plus4 said, 4 months ago

   Does this mean today is Jon’s 40th birthday? (Well, that’s when I started needing reading glasses.)

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   Macushlalondra said, 4 months ago

   Reading glasses aren’t that expensive. And I couldn’t read without them so they’re a godsend.

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   ♠Lonewolf♠ said, 4 months ago

   Set it on the floor, it works till you get the reading glasses.

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   FishStix said, 4 months ago

   It is no shame getting old; it is a wonderful combination of luck and success. Consider the alternative to getting old…

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   princepavel said, 4 months ago

   I wish I had his problem, my eyes are going the other way….my nose is almost touching the paper when I read… I hate hypermyopia…sigh.

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    Wildmustang1262 said, 4 months ago

    Jon needs to use the magnify so he will be able to read it.

    I got the eyeglasses for farsighting when I was 15 1/2 years old and I have to wear it while I drive. sigh!

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    legaleagle48 said, 4 months ago

    I just started wearing bifocals last year, and the irony is that I actually read better without them than I do with them!

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    Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

    At 47 I only use the reading glasses for books.
    Can still read a newspaper article without them, with some comic strips in the paper I may need them.
    I blame the newspaper more than my eyes for that.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 4 months ago

    I started wearing glasses when I was 10 years old. The MD who prescribed them was also Dad’s doctor.

    He said, “I will give you frames just like you father has.” Well, they were the nerdy type gold rims with round lenses.

    Dad only wore his glasses for reading back then. He wore them only to read the paper and when he needed to read the fine print when he was working at Douglas Aircraft.

    I have been wearing bifocals for more than 10 years now. I am waiting for a new pair which the VA is paying for. They would cost me around $300.00 if I had to pay for them.

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    JanCinVV said, 4 months ago

    Joe, my Dad worked at Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach as well. He was a design engineer.

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    sjoujke said, 4 months ago

    $300.00 for a pair of glasses!! Wow - the last pair of glasses I bought (trifocals) cost me over $800.00! I went back to contact lenses - much cheaper - and I wear one for reading and the other for distance. The middle corrective part of the trifocal lens was useless.

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    Dawn said, 4 months ago

    Wasn’t that a saaaaaaaad day? I squint to read when I forget my drugstore reading glasses. Now I have them spread all over the house.

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    Diana said, 4 months ago

    Yeah I paid a little over 300 for trifocals, what a waste.. glasses sitting on desk right now. Still can’t see really small stuff clearly, and my eyes take forever to refocus for distance if I read a book for more than 30 mins at a time. They really sharpen the ghost image from astigmatism though.

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    Melissa Tempke said, 4 months ago

    I started using Glasses when I was 9, & I started wearing Bifocals when I was 47. Been there, done that.

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    battycomic said, 4 months ago

    I didn’t know Jon had “Go Go Gadget Arms”!

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    caddy.1957 said, 4 months ago

    First pair of glasses at 9 ….first pair of bifocals at 16….first near death experience not long after getting bifocals (almost killed myself “falling” UP a flight of stairs)

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    Tigger said, 4 months ago

    Time for bifocals

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    Michael McMillan said, 4 months ago

    I started needing reading glasses along about my 40th, too. That was nearly 15 years ago, and now I need 2.75 magnification. Better light helps too, which is why I’ll be beefing up the interior lighting in my vehicle (map indexes can be hard even for good eyes, poor lighting makes it worse.) So far, the dime-store “cheaters” work well enough but sooner rather than later I’m just going to have to admit that I’m “old” and need bifocals.

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    comixavier said, 4 months ago

    I didn’t know Jon Arbuckle was a cousin of Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic)!

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    kab2rb said, 4 months ago

    When I was little I had trouble seeing. School didn’t test put me in SE. Mom took me to eye Dr. had me with glasses, school did not mess with me, and I started bificals before 30 for reading. Just two years ago got stronger lenses. Hard on my neck for computer screen.
    I enjoy reading. I have a two rooms, livingroom of books. Now gocomics to read. What fun I am having.

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    bluetopazcrystal said, 4 months ago

    princepavel :
    Me too.

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    yyyguy said, 3 months ago

    20/200 in one eye, 20/20 in the other. until plastic lenses came along, i had major problems with glasses. coke bottle bottoms on one side, flat glass on the other, and no way to balance the weight difference. wore one contact lens when i first went that route, only took a little bit longer to get used to. good eye is now getting slightly far-sighted, so bifocals are on the horizon. i don’t care, as long as i can still read the putts and follow the little white ball down the fairway.

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    BinaryWiener said, 3 months ago

    Isn’t a myth that reading in low light will destroy your vision? My mom would disagree.

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    Comic-Nut said, 3 months ago

    Glasses, bifocals, progressives, contacts maybe even laser surgery couldn’t cure Jon’s need to see things as they really are. LOL

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    gocomicsmember said, 3 months ago

    What’s bad is when your reading glasses start needing reading glasses. That’s about where I am.