Das vier Augen Prinzip

I had a very amusing evening yesterday and an equally jocular day today. Reasons? i am sporting a pair of spectacles these 24 hours. Had i known i will get a barrage of comments this bizarre, i would have tried it long back. Here some background of the events before that:

It was after a lot of dilly dallying and cajolery by my room mate ( i had once escaped from the Titan Eye Showroom) that i went to Lawrence and Mayo for an eye check up and there was a slight aberration from a perfect eye sight of 6/6. The salesman very dutifully said that not to aggravate the power further i must go for spectacles, I must say he did his job rather well because i was convinced that i should go for a pair of glasses. After the prosaic theatrics that we customers are so used to, I picked one frame and was asked to collect it on Thursday.

Yesterday afternoon i went to pick up the glasses and was asked to try them on to see if everything was alright, of course it was;

My first comment for the day came from the saleswoman there: Ma'am you look like a student with these on ! not bad at all, comments about younger age make any woman happy and I am no exception ;)

While i was still basking in the glory of the nice comment i had just received i was to receive a rather preposterous comment. My neighbor who happens to be a Tamil woman and least diplomatic tells me in her fragmented Hindi" didi tum aise chasma pahnega to koi ladka tumse shadi nahin karega" ( Translation for the benefit of those who don't know Hindi: if your wear spectacles no guy would marry you !) Phew so much for a ride from cloud 9 to the kingdom of Pluto. The comments from my room mates were however quite comforting; they thankfully didn't have the 19th century approach.

The next comment was even better and it came from my boss: "Ms. Suyasha the spectacles look very good on you, you could have tried them earlier even if for the style purposes".
The other reactions that i got were a mixed bag:
Why didn't you go for lenses,
Hey the case you got is very nice, they didn't give me such a nice one : so much for observation :(,
They give a very studious look, the frame is very nice .... and so on.

Tomorrow is weekend and i better gear up for even more interesting comments..

Wish you all a good weekend !

Alles Liebe
Suyasha