When I was about 9 years old, my father bought these modern eyeglasses. They were the kind that you could bend every which way and they would never break. He had them for about a month or so, when, one day, he asked me to wash them for him. This would be my first time handling these super, special, new glasses. My immature and innocent 9 year old mind couldn't fully grasp the fact that these glasses were, in no way, breakable. It was unbelievable! I thought it was phenomenal, innovative and almost scifi.
So, as the water was running out of the faucet I decided to BEND the glasses in odd directions that, if these glasses were normal, would cause them to fall apart.
I bent,
twisted
and folded.
You can imagine my surprise when I found out that these space age glasses really could break. As I glared in complete disappointment at the fallen piece in the sink I thought, "What am I going to tell Dad?!" I suddenly dropped the eyeglasses in the sink, breathed in a few times and took the pieces to my father.
"what happened?" he asked.
"I dunno..."
"what happened?" he asked again.
"I dropped them, in the sink."
He never bought the bendy glasses again because he thought they didn't live up to their name and I never informed him that it was me who broke his glasses and not the sink.
Maybe I should buy my Dad a pair of bendy glasses for Christmas this year!
haha! They should not claim to be unbreakable if in fact a 9-year old child can break them. So technically it was the manufacturer that was at fault here.
ReplyDeleteTrue. They should have hired some 9 year olds to test the endurance of the eye glasses before they marketed it as "unbreakable".
ReplyDeleteI am pretty sure it said: "...under normal use..."
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