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Subject:Re: PC or Not PC? That is the Question From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 5 Jun 1995 18:33:01 -0700
Matt Ion said:
[quoting someone unidentified]
> >If I say, "I use glasses," they know I'm using a container to hold
> >something, be it milk, juice, beer, or spare change.
What I great example! I, of course, read "I use glasses" and thought
of those funny things on my face.
> I used to USE my dad's EYEglasses (classic "Coke-bottle lenses") on sunny days
> to try to start fires... however, I have never had to WEAR EYEglasses myself.
I also use my glasses to see under various conditions. I have four
pairs of glasses--sunglasses, reading glasses (that I wear over
contacts), clear glass glasses (that I wear indoors to cut down on the
glare from fluorescent lights), and glasses that I wear when my
contacts are out. Oh, yeah, and I have a magnifying glass for reading
teeny-tiny stuff. I think that's it.... So I definitely use most of
these, not wear them.
