Gafas Gaffe

Definition gafas: noun eyeglasses (Sp)
gaffe: noun 1. an unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator; a blunder.

About three weeks ago I ordered a new pair of eyeglasses and anxiously awaited their arrival.

I finally got the call to pick them up, ran to the store on my break from work and popped them on my face after a careful fitting. I walked the fifteen blocks back to the office through the most fashionable part of town proudly sporting my sassy new frames and smiling at anyone who looked. Once I got to the office I jumped on the next elevator with mirrored doors and noticed something was very wrong…

This is how I looked after my walk in the sun :

Whoops! Guess these guys are going back to the lab ASAP. I didn’t even want transitions lenses!