Overheard in the bathroom at nearby optical school

[Alan W]

No need to describe who was where when this was said.

Person #1: That guy was talking about some stuff called zyl.
Person #2: Must be some stuff the old guys used.
Person #1: Yeh . . . he said plastic is comming back.
Person #2: He's got to be kidding. What a joke! Nobody wants plastic.
Person #1: I'll bet he means plastic and zyl are the same.
Person #2: Must be . . . I think thats what that box with the sand is for.
Person #1: What a joke. That's so gross.
Person #2: Yeh, but did you see the frame that chick is wearing on CNN?
Person #1: Yeh . . . I heard Calvin Klein started a brand new look with plastic.
Person #2: Yeh . . . but its a fad . . . that look will never catch on.

Sheesh . . . . am I THAT old?

[Joann Raytar]

Life used to be so simple, Zyl or Optyl. Then CFG had to come along and everyone wanted lightwieght, now everything is polyamawhatchamacallit. Maybe we are all getting old. ;)

I still remember the day I found out that you couldn't heat those Logo frames as long as a zyl frame. It shrunk three eyesizes in about 3 seconds. So what do I do? I get another one. I get distracted and leave the salt pan unattended for about 5 seconds. I ended up with something that resembled a crazy straw. After the LO stopped busting his gut laughing at me I was taught the meaning of "cold snap." I later learned that even if you don't heat the frame, if a high plus lens with a knife edge is edged too large it has the ability to slit the eyewire of the same such frame in two halves, front and back.
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