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To ask what you would think if you saw someone wearing

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user1490817986 · 06/06/2017 10:42

If you saw someone in a supermarket or shop, or just out in public, wearing tinted grey glasses? Not sunglasses. What would you automatically think?

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bruffian · 06/06/2017 10:43

Are you serious? It wouldn't even register on my radar.

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Rubyslippers7780 · 06/06/2017 10:43

Prescription. Must have very light sensitive eye condition.

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Giggorata · 06/06/2017 10:44

I'd think they were uv resistant.... grey was offered as a choice when I got mine.

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Pikachuwithyourmouthclosed · 06/06/2017 10:44

I wouldn't think anything...

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NeoNeoClassical · 06/06/2017 10:45

male or female?

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nina2b · 06/06/2017 10:45

This is a hilarious OP! Seriously, I am quietly giggling.

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ThatsWotSheSaid · 06/06/2017 10:46

99% of people wouldn't notice 1% of people would care

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cheeseslovesme · 06/06/2017 10:48

Would not really notice , But would probably think they had a sensitivity to light.

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CrispyBathTowel · 06/06/2017 10:48

I wouldn't think anything if I even noticed.

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chemenger · 06/06/2017 10:49

That they had photochromatic lenses that had not adjusted to the inside light fully. Or that they had prescription lenses with a tint due to an eye condition that is none of my business. Or that they just fancied tinted glasses.

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PortiaCastis · 06/06/2017 10:50

They had sight problems

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NeedMoreSleepOrSugar · 06/06/2017 10:52

Probably wouldn't notice, but if I did I'd assume a sensitivity or eye condition, neither of which are my business.

If I thought further on it at all, I'd probably think it was great that they're actually wearing them, as a family member needs similar lenses but refuses to wear them. Sad

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Redhead17 · 06/06/2017 10:52

I have terrible problems with my nose/sinuses and migraines I always have sunglasses even on this pissing down day they're on my head. I find brightness too much at times so need to tone down outside, I'd probably think nothing of it as I wear big fuck off sunnies rain, wind or shine and if people think it's odd be rest assured no fucks are given.

Could be 100 reasons why and I'd assume none of your business

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whatithink · 06/06/2017 10:53

Don't judge.

You wouldn't be asking this question about seeing someone with their arm in a sling or leg in a cast or someone in a wheelchair.

I have a serious eye condition and have had a number of surgeries. My eyes are very sensitive to light. I have even needed to wear sunglasses indoors in February.

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ShelaghTurner · 06/06/2017 10:56

I have prescription sunglasses and half the time I forget my other glasses and end up wearing the sunnies round Sainsbury's etc. I feel like Stevie Wonder but it's that or I can't see!

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purits · 06/06/2017 11:02

That they had photochromatic lenses that had not adjusted to the inside light fully. Or that they had prescription lenses with a tint due to an eye condition that is none of my business.

If - and note I said if - I thought anything, it would be this. Then I would get on with my day.

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Blahblahbollocks96 · 06/06/2017 11:02

I would be thinking

'Where have I put the shopping list?'
'Have I locked the bloody car '
'Great I've forgotten the damn plastic bags '
And ' Have I even got my purse?'

So thinking about someone's glasses? Not so much Grin

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glitterglitters · 06/06/2017 11:04

They had a special prescription. There was a boy in my year 7 French class who wore coloured lenses.

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WorknameJimEllis · 06/06/2017 11:10

Yeah, that's my worry nina

The condition that necessitates the glasses is bad enough, feeling a dick wearing them is the icing on the fucking cake TBH.

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MrsJayy · 06/06/2017 11:10

It wouldnt evenregister honestly I would be to busy thinking urgh food shopping. Why are you asking one of my Dc wears tinted lenses for erlens she wears them out and about sometimes so she can process stuff

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JustAMusing · 06/06/2017 11:13

I wear sunglasses most of the time because I'm really sensitive to light and anything brighter than dark and overcast is uncomfortable, bright day is painful. I have the curtains closed in the house in the summer.

So I might assume they had similar but had actually sorted out some from glasses.

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JustAMusing · 06/06/2017 11:14

some proper glasses

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iseenodust · 06/06/2017 11:14

I really wouldn't notice. I'm generally quite oblivious unless there is some 'in your face' piercing when I just think that must have hurt.

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CoolCarrie · 06/06/2017 11:15

That they had some treatment on their eyes, if I noticed at all.

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UsefulEustace · 06/06/2017 11:16

Porphyria for instance is a condition where a person may be advised to protect the skin from sunlight, and this person may have removed their hat and gloves but kept the tinted glasses on for shopping, particularly if they were prescription ones.

What is it that you initially thought, OP?

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