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Martini Shot

Reading Glasses

Rob puts on a pair of $6 reading glasses and learns just how easy it is to look like he's thinking hard. Cheap, too. Beats actually thinking hard.

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By Rob Long • Jun 26, 2013 • 3m Listen

After squinting my way through the past few weeks, I finally gave in and bought some of those reading glasses you get at the drugstore. As I type this, I'm wearing a $6 pair of black half-glasses, bought at Costco in a packet of three. The strength, just to be clear, is the lowest available: 1.25 times. So my eyes are old and tired, but not yet totally useless....

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    Rob Long

    Host, 'Martini Shot'

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