When I was an infant I sat at table and listened to my Dad as he explained how starving he and his surviving comrades were after the Burma retreat. All the way out of Burma he had held a fixation about eating a real egg, and eventually, once safe in India, he found a grizzled old man selling eggs from a basket on a street corner. My Dad bought some, and the ancient man held each one up to the light and peered at it through his clenched right hand as shown below. He would then either put it to one side or put in in with the ones to be sold.
One of the eggs which my father bought was no good, and he concluded that the peering through hand business was just a scam to deceive foolish foreigners, and my Dad laughed out loud about it whenever he mentioned it.
60 years later I needed specs, my left eye being the only one that is much good, so I have always had distance specs and used clip-ons for either reading, computer or close up work. I often wondered about that old man, whether he was scamming or for real, and so one day when I needed to read a product label and had forgotten my reader clip-ons I took off my watch and peered through a strap hole at the label.......... and could read it!
The old man could see that way! He could!
Patient reader, try making a tiny needle point hole in a paper or card, take off your glasses and look through it for good vision. In time, like me, you'll be able to close your hand down to the tiniest hole for emergency vision and will not need anything else.
I made mention of this on a forum some years back and a member told me how she wears pinhole specs when she has severe headaches. I found similar ones on ebay and can show them below, the one with smaller holes being best for me.
One of the eggs which my father bought was no good, and he concluded that the peering through hand business was just a scam to deceive foolish foreigners, and my Dad laughed out loud about it whenever he mentioned it.
60 years later I needed specs, my left eye being the only one that is much good, so I have always had distance specs and used clip-ons for either reading, computer or close up work. I often wondered about that old man, whether he was scamming or for real, and so one day when I needed to read a product label and had forgotten my reader clip-ons I took off my watch and peered through a strap hole at the label.......... and could read it!
The old man could see that way! He could!
Patient reader, try making a tiny needle point hole in a paper or card, take off your glasses and look through it for good vision. In time, like me, you'll be able to close your hand down to the tiniest hole for emergency vision and will not need anything else.
I made mention of this on a forum some years back and a member told me how she wears pinhole specs when she has severe headaches. I found similar ones on ebay and can show them below, the one with smaller holes being best for me.
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