Larry wrote:
Rosalie B. wrote in
:

When I was a student aircraft pilot I soon found out that clip on or
snap down polarized sunglasses on
my regular perscription glasses when flying into the sun resulted in
some real pretty rainbow patterns and
not much visability through the plexiglass airplane window. All the
stresses from heat forming the curved
plexiglass window became visible with the polarizing glass in place.

Doug K7ABX



EAch spring, about now, Family Dollar Stores gets this huge Chinese
sunglasses display box they just set up vertically with cardboard
cubbyholes in it full of cheap sunglasses in little cellophane bags.
In those cubbyholes is the finest $1 sunglasses on the planet. They
have black plastic frames with wrap-around, very dark plastic lenses
that are held onto the frames with two little metal screws at the top
of each lens that rusts just awful, ensuring they won't come loose.
Plugged onto your head, they provide a solid, horizon-to-horizon,
top-to-bottom, no leakage around the sides sunglass that, for some
odd reason, has a neutral kind of color transmission like
smoke-grey-green. They are extremely comfortable to wear, with only
a little plastic-bending to adjust the back ends of the earframes to
fit your head.

At the princely sum of $1, WHEN, not if, you dump these sunglasses
over the side, you look at the horrified onlookers in their $489
Italian Sunglass Hut-at-the-damned-mall....shrug your shoulders, and
go below for a nice, new pair. Unlike the expensive brands, when
they get that damned little scratch right dead center in your main
vision where the chartplotter's most important data is
viewed-without-tilting-the-scratch- out-of-the-way, you jerk them off
your face straight overboard and put on a new, unscratched,
perfect-vision pair....for $1.

Don't look for them, however, around Charleston, SC. I've bought
every pair in the display for the "sunglass locker" since I found
them, in any Family Dollar Store I come to. There's 2 pair in each
car, 3 in the truck, 3 in my cubbyhole on the boat and a drawer full
for backups.....

They're just that great....

oh, and UGLY! Makes you look like Dave Garroway or Steve Allen....(c;

Can you insure them as Ray-Bans or Guccis, as I need the money!

Dennis.