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;