One day, I was driving in my car, when I saw…a most unusual sight. I saw a lady…riding her bike…in the rain…on Main Street…and she was wearing…goggles. Now. These were not swimming goggles. They were big, clear goggles that covered half her face…the kind of goggles a scientist would wear. It was as if she was in a chemistry lab. Except for one thing. She wasn’t. So. My hypothesis is that she watched the weather forecast…or at least had witnessed the clouds fighting for control over the sky that morning…and she didn’t want the potential rain to pelt her in the eyes. So she found some mad-scientist-looking goggles and turned them into…rain glasses.
People wear sunglasses all the time…absolutely necessary. But rain glasses? It just seemed a little over the top…a little paranoid. It wasn’t even raining that much. A light drizzle, at most. Consequently, maybe she really was a mad-scientist…
When I beheld this strange sight, it reminded me of a book based off the kid’s tv show Arthur, and Arthur’s sister D.W. has to get glasses. The book shows pictures of her trying on all different types of glasses, and one pair has wipers over the lenses. I thought it was pretty funny. But. I did a Google search of “rain glasses.” And it turns out…they exist! Wiper Glasses! It’s a real thing! Although…they didn’t get the best reviews on Amazon. So…don’t get your hopes up just yet about going biking through the next torrential downpour. Because you may find that in the middle of your commute, the wipers stop wiping. My advice…don’t let a faulty pair of Wiper Glasses rain on your parade. Go with the goggles from your chemistry class. Or better yet, don’t bike in the rain through traffic, it’s not really that safe.
September 13, 2008
Blue Moon Muse 