Classic sunglasses designs for summer - 2013-06-23 23:35:17

I’m an eyes person. I need to see them to determine whether I’m being looked at straight on, or cross-eyed, or rolled eye, or closed eye or glazed eye.

Call me insecure, but I need to look people in the eye to know what they’re really saying. If you put a pair of sunglasses on, I’m the one who is left in the dark.

It’s summertime, and lots of people are wearing sunglasses. And some of them probably have good reason to. The intensity of the sunlight is just too much for their eyes, and they need sunglasses to see without their eyes watering up, or the brightness causing headaches, or the sun’s glare blinding them. They get a pass for therapeutic reasons.

Baseball players provide a good example for proper sunglass use. I don’t watch baseball games on TV like I should, but baseball players wear flip-up sunglasses. When the ball is in regular play, the sunglasses are flipped up. But if a pop fly is hit, the sunglasses are flipped down so they can see the ball against the sun. It’s for professional reasons.

Otherwise, they might lose ball, not be anywhere near it, or worse, get hit in the face.

And that might have been my problem when I was playing baseball. I was a terrible fielder– and right field is where the terrible ones are farmed out to because few balls are hit there by youngsters. And I was fine with that.

Nothing quite stirred terror in my heart like a pop fly to right field where I was playing. I would look up for the ball, try to judge where it was going and put the glove in front of my face to prevent it from giving me a black eye, or on the off chance, catching it.

I didn’t have flip-up sunglasses to flip down to cut down the glare. Not that it would have eliminated the terrors, but I would have had a better idea of the ball’s trajectory to be near enough to miss the catch – and my face – and near enough to retrieve the ball to throw it back to the infield.