Long shot: missing glasses, anyone?

[triskellian]

This applies to hardly any of you, but I've asked everyone I can think of, and have obviously missed the crucial person, so...

Have you:

• Been in my car in the last few months?
• Lost a pair of glasses in approximately the same timescale?

The glasses in question have squished nose bits, so they might have been there for ages (but no longer than a year, because that's how long we've had the car). They might, on the other hand, belong to someone who tends to squish their glasses. Not being a glasses-wearer, I don't understand how they work.

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Photo of glasses would help if the owner doesn't actually read this entry.

[secretrebel.livejournal.com]

They're glasses. I've seen them, they look like glasses. I really don't think that I'd be able to identify the owner from the appearance of their glasses. Could anyone?

[triskellian]

Apparently it's much more complicated than that - I showed them to the boy next door this morning, and he was horrified that I thought they might be his ;-)

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Could anyone?

Yes. (Though not with 100% reliability and it would depend on me having seen the owner wearing them.)

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Metal frame or plastic? Or none? Round lenses? Particular brand (mine have "Police" stamped on the arm. I probably wouldn't remember that, if I lost them, but somebody else might remember with theirs).

I'm guessing they're not half moon, or bifocals.

[triskellian]

Metal frame. Umm, oval-ish lenses I think. Some sort of engraved pattern on the bits where the arms (is that what they're called?) attach to the lens-frame-bit. I haven't noticed them being bifocal, but I haven't looked at them very closely so they might be.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Certainly not mine then, because mine are frameless. Oh, and I'm wearing them :)

arms (is that what they're called?)

Seriously? Yeah, that's what they're called :)

I guess the frame's black, or at least dark blue, or you'd have mentioned that :)

I'm suggesting they're not bifocal, because I don't know anybody who admits to wearing any :) YMMV, of course.

[triskellian]

Seriously?
Yeah, seriously; I do know this, I just had a moment of uncertainty (I don't wear sunglasses either).

I guess the frame's black, or at least dark blue, or you'd have mentioned that :)
No, it's metal coloured. Yellowish metal, I think.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I could, with a reasonable amount of accuracy - at least to the 'able to rule people out' level. I could certainly pick my glasses out of a line-up pretty easily. Not that anyone else could because I don't think anyone I currently know has seen me wearing them.

Not being a glasses-wearer, I don't understand how they work.

[mkononi.livejournal.com]

I'd have thought it was pretty self explanatory ;)

Re: Not being a glasses-wearer, I don't understand how they work.

[triskellian]

:-P

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

I don't have any useful comment to make, but I'm amazed you seem to think one set of glasses is indistinguishable from another. Truly astounding!

[triskellian]

<suspicious> are you confusing me and secretrebel for comedic purposes? Cos it was her who said that*, not me. Admittedly I made no attempt to describe them until asked to do so, but I figured there aren't many people who've both lost a pair of glasses and been in my car (actually, experience so far suggests that there are precisely zero such people, which is rather confusing ;-)

*And actually, she didn't quite say that, just that she couldn't match the glasses with the glasses-wearer. Although maybe she can't distinguish between different pairs of glasses. Perhaps we should get onebyone to perform experiments on her to find out.

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

Ummm, yes, deliberate confusion there.

*hides*