Monday, February 9, 2009

An eye on spectacles

Those who wear power glasses have a distinctive advantage. They can choose what to see and reject those they do not want to. When I spot a cockroach in the bathroom, I just remove my specs, run for the broom and attack. Sans glasses, all I get to see is a vague image. Klushh.. The poor guy is dead.
It is also my habit to hold my specs in my hand while walking/jogging (if at all I manage to shirk my laziness). The other day a lady came close to me with an angry face. “Pavithra’s daddy. I am waving Hi to you and you are not even responding!” she complained. It was my neighbour, but damn it, how do I know that without my glasses?
My gardener friend from Sri Lanka wanted a printout with his name. He was going on leave and wanted to paste it on his baggage. Tomorrow? He asked me five times. I nodded. As expected, I forgot. When I was walking on the road, I spotted the yellow uniform and surmised my friend would catch me. I removed my specks and kept walking as if I had not seen him. When I came close, I felt odd and put on my specks. Shucks, it was some replacement and my friend had already gone on leave.
Did you ask why not contact lens? People complain I look too handsome if I wear contacts. I am not interested in film roles boss.

22 comments:

nituscorner said...

wow i din't know people with contact lens land up in the film industry ....he! he!....so if not contact lens how about carrots????ok ok...jokes apart thanks for visiting my blog n leaving your comments when i was gone.By the way how would u suggest visiting dubai???? with or without specs ??? he! he!

Vinisha said...

Oye Hoye! I am warning you, if you come up in a film, I am going to learn how to whistle and embarrass the hell out of you!


*Giggling hard*

Vinisha said...

Don't you know - I HATE to lie :P

**Still giggling hard**

Vinisha said...

Hee!

Vinisha said...

:D Entertain this kid for a while, will you?

Birthday coming up in 40 mins :)

Vinisha said...

I am not accepting any advance wishes. So that wish is null and void :P

Gujju Thali?

अविनाश said...

Ok so I know at least one criterion to get villain character in a movie, that’s putting contact lens lolz 


A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Njoy!!!

Tantra Flower said...

Cockroaches are the only bugs that I kill. All the others, I slide a piece of paper under and let them outside. The nasty roaches get the fly swatter and no sympathy!

I hope you are having a good day today. :)

Jayashree and Just Jay said...

ha ha ha, nice.. sometimes it happens to me as well. but not as bad as you.

Good writing, Made me smile early morning.

Cheers,
Jayashree

humanobserver said...

Lollllllllll...

sribbler said...

i hope very soon you will start to act..

magiceye said...

you are right.. you do need 'contacts' of all kinds to get in films!!

hitch writer said...

Aaah Modest !

Priyanka Khot said...

hahaha... i like i like... and now i'll always, always, always distrust bespectacled people... :P

Aviral said...

that's why i always wear my specs to avoid such situations

Anonymous said...

everything has its own advs and diadvs..poor our specs too hav..

Tantra Flower said...

I am laughing at Magiceye's clever comment.

Just wanted to say hello to you, my dear friend and fellow eyeglass wearer.

Himanshu Bhagat said...

There goes the narcissist! :P Let me know wen u receive a role OK..[Then I would wear lens too :P]

PMA RASHEED said...

Eye-ngar the great!!!

Sai Charan said...

Man, this is a really funny post.

What will be the situation when you wear goggles?

This post is just another example that your blog is sure to tickle the funny bone of the reader.

Saadia said...

Ooooooooo, I hate it when people pretend not to have seen me! Very bad, very bad!

Fida said...

Hi Handsome! You know, specs can be sooo sexy! (hope that doesn’t xxxx-rates your blog).

Anyway, as always you really know how to tell a good story! I had to think of my girlfriend: she worked at a cinema during her student years, and there she had this hilarious experience we still laugh about (I am easily entertained, eh…). Due to her vanity, she didn’t wear her glasses if she could help… So, one day, sitting in her glass-cabinet, she sees that shadow in the corner that resembled a human. Since he didn’t move she didn’t pay much attention to him, thought he would wait for somebody. Once in a while, she saw in his direction. After some more time, she got curious, and started to look intensely at the figure, you know, the way half blind people do – staring really, in a slightly forward position. She still couldn’t make out what he was doing. Finally, she put on her glasses and looked again: it was a flasher – I think she must have made him very happy that day:)))