We can put people on the moon. So why can’t we stop my glasses sliding down my nose? | Adrian Chiles
by Adrian Chiles from US news | The Guardian on (#655PY)
I've tried everything, from Pritt Stick to antiperspirant, but they refuse to stay put
My spectacles keep slipping down my nose. They've been doing so roughly every 10 minutes since the dark day in 1980 when an optician in Stourbridge lodged some specs on this 13-year-old and blighted his life for ever.
Indoors or out, whatever the ambient conditions, down they slip. I'm writing this in my cool, calm, air-conditioned dressing room as I wait to appear on Loose Women on ITV. And down my specs are slipping. I push them back up, and back down they go. Up down up down up down, all day every day, for nearly half a century.
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