Sun Glasses

I got to thinking the other day that being in the sunglasses business in Tucson must be lucrative. I mean the sun is always out! I love it when the local weatherpersons (must be gender neutral) call for partly cloudy.

What that actually means is if you look real hard toward any one of the beautiful distant mountain ranges that surround Tucson, you might see an occasional white puffy cloud.

I swear there is so much sun that your sunglasses wear out. I don't even have time to lose them. I think they just give up. They work so hard every day trying to keep the eyes protected, never a break...no clouds, no off days. They're tired.

You can tell when the end is coming...the pigment in the glass starts to lighten. The hinges holding the glasses together start to loosen, and those "nose braces", I guess that's what you call them, that allow the glasses to rest comfortably on the nose, they get crooked. Its all over.

Its really the luck of the draw. Some sunglasses get shipped to Buffalo,Cleveland, or Seattle instead of Tucson. They're the lucky ones. Get to stay in a drawer most of the time, work a few days in July. Life is good.