In article <cnf4kixbqs.ln2@threeformcow.myzen.co.uk>,
#Paul <news20k.noreply@threeformcow.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> Dave Plowman (News) <dave@davenoise.co.uk> wrote:
> > I have a pal. Never seen him wear specs - even for reading.
> > At over 70 obviously short sighted. Doesn't drive.
> >
> > After his cataract operations (both eyes) complaining bitterly
> > he had to pay for reading specs. Asked him if he was now pleased
> > having decent distance vision, and said he hadn't noticed. He
> > is a bit odd, though. ;-)

> Why would he notice? For 70 years there was nothing he could
> usefully see at a distance, and so he would have learned to
> pay attention (only) to the nearby. That sort of long-ingrained
> bias would be hard to shift, I'd have thought.

He almost certainly had glasses to correct his distance vision, but chose
not to wear them. So would have known what decent distance vision was -
but decided he didn't need it. As I said, a bit odd.

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In article <jd9r0uFo43rU1@mid.individual.net>,
Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
> On 29 Apr 2022 at 15:07:32 BST, "Dave Plowman <News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk>
> wrote:

> > In article <jd1gbcF5ssiU1@mid.individual.net>, alan_m
> > <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> >> I'm have one eye done in the next few weeks under the NHS and I've
> >> been told that I will still need glasses for reading. I actually
> >> still need glasses for my other eye for distance but a plain lens for
> >> distance for the eye that will be operated on.
> >
> > I have a pal. Never seen him wear specs - even for reading. At over 70
> > obviously short sighted. Doesn't drive.
> >
> > After his cataract operations (both eyes) complaining bitterly he had
> > to pay for reading specs. Asked him if he was now pleased having
> > decent distance vision, and said he hadn't noticed. He is a bit odd,
> > though. ;-)

> Wasn't he asked, at the pre-op stage, whether he wanted to be fitted for
> near or distant vision during the cataract op? I was and chose distant.
> This was an NHS op, although performed at a private hospital.

I've a feeling he wouldn't have understood the question.

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