Well, I bought very expensive progressives that I found were fine for driving. Tailor-made for me.
But I found them annoying indoors for intermediate-range viewing. So I got the degressives, which are perfect.
So I actually have three pairs of glasses: regular progressives for outdoors, sunglasses progressives for outdoors, and degressives for indoors. It all seems to work well for me.
The new bag doesn’t fit my glasses case. Well, so far. I may try repacking. The glasses fit fine, but the case is quite large. The metal case you all bullied me into abandoning did fine in this regard.
How much you wanna bet neither Melania, nor Margaret, carry those things all day long while going from ride to ride. They look nice for a photo op while going from your door to the car, though!
No-one’s asking you to change. But everyone’s telling me I’m wrong all the time about everything.
Specifically you said it would hit my knees. If bags like the ones pictured with Margaret Thatcher and Melania Trump — which are at knee level and bigger than mine — don’t cause them a problem, I don’t see why you think mine will.
Get a string bag. Something thin and lightweight. Fold it up and put it INSIDE your handy-dandy toiletry bag.
Then, after you start to develop a bruise on your left knee (I’m randomly selecting a side for the sake of effect, which is, of course, ruined by this parenthetical), pull out the string bag, stick the toiletry bag INTO the string bag, then wear it on your back for a while. Of course, you’ll end up with scoliosis as a result of this if you do it terribly long, but you can then pull the toiletry bag back out of the string bag, deposit the folded string bag back into the toiletry bag, and then carry the toiletry bag on your right side.
When you start to develop a bruise on your right knee…well, you get the picture.
It’s horses for courses. I don’t like shoulder straps. The enormous suffering I’ll endure through carrying a two pound bag by my side is less than that I’d have to endure if I had a shoulder strap. Because I just don’t like how they feel.
And I won’t be carrying it all day. I don’t tour like that — well, I won’t be this time. There’s lots of sitting down involved.
Fun as this is — and it’s isn’t — I have to go my GP now. He has to decide if the weird lump on my scalp is skin cancer or just a weird lump that old people get.
That’s true, there’s always a fair amount of sitting down.
I know you’re 50 now but I don’t think you qualify as an old person. I don’t mean to imply that it must be skin cancer, I’m sure it’s just a weird lump.