Ko Phangan,
Thailand
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
I had been getting a bad Spidey sense feeling about my glasses over the past few weeks. I could sense something wasn't quite right in the universe. On one of the rare days I got out of my hammock, I decided to play some Frisbee on the beach. I thought about putting on my contacts and going for a swim or wearing my sunglasses instead of my regular glasses, but I couldn't be bothered as it wasn't all that sunny in this prolonged monsoon season. We were playing just at the end of high tide so the surf was going out, but still high on the beach. Ricky made a bad throw too far into the water, but I decided to go for it anyway. As I dove to catch the disk, I could feel a wave coming up all around me. I caught the disk, but the wave took my glasses right off my head. I quickly chucked the disk on to the beach and tried in vain to find my glasses. Nothing like searching for a tiny pair of glasses in the ocean when you can't see a thing. Todd and Ricky both dove in quickly when they realized what had happened, but after about 10 minutes of searching I had to admit that they had been sacrificed to Poseidon. I was going to be blind until I could get a new pair of glasses. It was time anyway. I had gotten this pair about 7 years ago when my previous pair got stolen out of my brother's car along with several thousand dollars worth of my sh*t while I was playing volleyball in Miami. I guess it's just natures way of telling me that I need a new look.
The next day I hopped into Ricky's truck and went into Thong Sala to buy a new pair of glasses. I picked out a new pair in about 20 minutes. It's probably the fastest I've ever chosen anything in my life. It probably helped that they were only about 5,600B (~$170) Unfortunately, the ride back in the back of his pickup truck was a bit rough as it started pissing down rain and at 80Kph rain hurts. It took 3 days for them to cut the lenses for me so I was blind for a few days wearing my sunglasses day and night. All in all not too bad considering I was on an island and it was just before New Year's Eve.
