No, I'm not referring to the clear plastic lid for my eyeglass cleaner bottle, which I STILL have not found. It's clear! Like those round ice cubes with the hole in the middle, that I had to buy during FRIG II's respite from making the opaque, crescent-shaped ice cubes. I can find the FRIG II cubes when I drop one (since I have to remove them by hand from the bin, the automatic dispenser having been repaired by Farmer H a few years ago, and not stopping when you quit pushing the lever). So it's not a matter of vision concerning the lid.
I don't wear my glasses for driving. I just renewed my driver's license, and that's not a restriction. However...
On Monday afternoon, I started to town. As I got down on the lower gravel road that runs alongside the creek, where all those limbs and debris have been littering the road since the flood water receded, I saw a man on a tractor. "Oh. That's good," I thought. "Somebody is working on the road. Maybe they'll fill in the foot-deep ditch where Farmer H's Badly Blacktopped Hill washed out, since those yahoos tore out the blacktop."
As I always do when I pass a tractor man working on our roads, I slowed. I put my window down. I gave the thumbs-up.
AND FARMER H SAID, "What?"
"Uh, I'm just saying good job that you're out working on the roads! I didn't even know you were down here. I saw that you left the mail on the table, but I thought you were over at the BARn. I didn't even know you had your tractor running again."
"Yeah. I'm cleanin' up these sticks."
"Oh. Well. Okay. I'm going to town. I left the door unlocked because I thought you were at the BARn. The dogs weren't there."
"Them dogs was down here with me a minute ago. I don't know where they are now."
Yeah. I didn't know my own husband when I was driving right past him... To be fair, he has a blue tractor AND a green tractor. So I'm never sure which one to look for.
4 comments:
Ha ha, that's funny not recognising your own husband, It's less funny the other way, when walking a very long way home from work and your husband is stopped at a red light across the road and then zips right past you on the green light later claiming he didn't see me there, when I'd noticed him look right at me!
Maybe it is time for new glasses for you.
River,
Oh no! That's a terrible event, knowing that he saw you and didn't pick you up! I'm pretty sure I need new glasses, but I don't like going to the optometrist.
Well, he recognized you! I have mistaken other men for Drew, especially if they have a shirt on that looks like one of his. Maybe I need glasses, too!
Kathy,
I guess I'm lucky that he recognized me, since he sees me so few hours a day!
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