YUMA, Ariz. — My father’s sunglasses are the stuff of legend. Like many of the Messenger men, he has bad eyesight.
Dad has always worn Coke-bottle glasses with big horn-rims. His sunglasses of choice for most of my youth were clip-ons, the big ones that can flip up, which is cool if you’re a Major League outfielder but not so much if you’re the kind of guy who wears his clip-ons while sporting plaid Bermuda shorts, black socks and white tennis shoes. But I digress.
If I had to wager a guess, I’d say my dad has had 75 or so pairs of clip-ons in his life. That’s because he loses them or, occasionally, puts them in his back pocket and forgets they’re there and then sits on them. “Where’s my sunglasses?” he’ll ask, before the kids and grandkids start scouring the house.
Usually, they’ll turn up. Often, they’re in the car. People are also reading.
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