Old guys on the forum

[Archimedes]

You ever cut yourself with your wicked sharp Spyderco and then have to get your reading glasses out to see how bad it is?

Guilty.

[Manixguy@1994]

Ha ! I haven’t lately believe me I feel your age and pain . MG2

[JRinFL]

Hahaha, that hits too close to home!

Although my last cut was not with a Spyderco and it was bad enough I didn’t need my glasses to see how bad.

[dsvirsky]

Nope. Wear bifocals.

[James Y]

No, I’m near-sighted. I can see and read perfectly up to a foot away without glasses. So I’ve never needed corrective lenses to see an accidental cut from a knife.

For intermediate and far, I wear glasses with progressive lenses. I don’t consider myself that old, though.

Jim

[Naperville]

Starting at the center of my left palm, I almost stuck a very sharp butcher knife completely through my left hand in 2001. Got lucky and did not even cut a tendon.

I don't use sharp knives to do martial arts anymore.

[Sharp Guy]

Yes!

[yablanowitz]

You ever cut yourself with your wicked sharp Spyderco and then have to get your reading glasses out to see how bad it is?

Guilty.

Nope. I always assume they are very bad and treat them accordingly, sight unseen.

[anycal]

I have been EDCing some kind of a flash light a lot more over the last three years. Low light and less than two feet away from my face, everything is a blur. I can't even see what I am writing. Most things are done by instinct. Been putting off getting glasses for way too long.

[standy99]

Dropped a butchers knife and clipped the tip of my big toe doing the dropped knife dance a few weeks ago. Band aid job only but left a bit of claret on the floor.

I had my glasses on so I could see the potatoes I was cutting up.
Had 20-20 vision up to a few years ago. And can read a sign half a mile away, but up close has faded

[Evil D]

Not sure what constitutes old?

Fortunately for me (I guess) my eyeballs suck at a distance so when I cut myself I can see up close real nice and see just how badly I did


Related question, you ever cut yourself with an edge that's so sharp you don't even realize you got cut until you start to feel parts of your body suddenly feeling wet that shouldn't be wet?

[standy99]

Related question, you ever cut yourself with an edge that's so sharp you don't even realize you got cut until you start to feel parts of your body suddenly feeling wet that shouldn't be wet?

Done this on Chads (Xplorer) knife I bought a few weeks ago Was showing a mate at work and popped it out of the sheath upside down

[VWTattoo]

Being blind now, I’ve had to adapt my knife usage techniques, and resort to gloves to protect my other hand when doing food prep.
I’ve cut myself many, many times over the years,though- the worst ones are the ones that you know will bleed a lot, giving you that cold adrenalin “oh sh” rush, usually for about 2 to 3 seconds before you actually start bleeding.

[twinboysdad]

I have been EDCing some kind of a flash light a lot more over the last three years. Low light and less than two feet away from my face, everything is a blur. I can't even see what I am writing. Most things are done by instinct. Been putting off getting glasses for way too long.

I still have 20/20 at age 47, but I hate low lighting and carry flashlight a lot as a result

[jacala]

Currently looking down at daisies and trying to delay looking up at daisies.
I wipe oil onto the blades of each new Spydie that arrives.I use my right pointer finger and have to concentrate on the
direction that I'm going while putting the oil on the blade. Have lost concentration or been distracted a couple of times
in the past heh heh !

[Doc Dan]

I can see just fine up close, as long as I'm not trying to read anything.

[JRinFL]

Up close vision deteriorates for everyone eventually, it is inevitable. I think some people who won the genetic lottery get to push it off for longer than the rest of us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyopia

[PaperKnife]

…the worst ones are the ones that you know will bleed a lot, giving you that cold adrenalin “oh sh” rush, usually for about 2 to 3 seconds before you actually start bleeding.

That description hit a little too close to home.

[James Y]

I've been near-sighted since about age 15 (since 1978). Interestingly, my eyeglass prescription has barely changed since the early '90s. At age 58, my close vision is still as clear as it always was. I can also still get around without wearing glasses at all, even in the dark; I just can't see in clear detail at a distance.

When younger, I used to wear contacts, but the inconvenience of the constant care they require and the eye irritation from them made me give them up in the late '80s.

Jim

[bearfacedkiller]

Up close vision deteriorates for everyone eventually, it is inevitable. I think some people who won the genetic lottery get to push it off for longer than the rest of us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyopia

“Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.”

Phyllis Diller

You cannot fight the passage of time.