Bye bye letter "B"

RIP letter "B"

I consulted 3 professional opinions and they all concurred that this is a fatal injury.  That I should give them a decent burial and move on.  Of course all of them are in the business of selling glasses, so their opinions are no doubt biased, but it was probably time to upgrade anyway.  I went out first thing Saturday morning to shop for new glasses.  Yikes!  Talk about sticker shock!  $581.05 for new glasses - and that was with 50% off on the lenses!  But, what high-tech glasses.  HD progressive transitional lenses with superior vision and anti-glare coating.  What??  HD because the frame is narrow so the progressive focal points have to be condensed, transitional means they turn to sunglasses outside and regular glasses indoors (they called that photogray in the 70's, but they assure me that the technology has improved since then).  Superior vision means that instead of a tiny rounded area for reading, the reading portion is the entire length of the lens therefore increasing my peripheral vision and anti-glare so that my glasses don't blind people when they look at me.  That plus 5 dollars worth of metal and plastic is what you get for almost 600 bucks!  Sheeesh!