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Now I’ve never been what you might call a looker. I guess my best period was my late teens, early twenties when I was ultra confident and very buff from weight lifting and various martial arts and I did alright with the ladies. Not as well as some of the people I knew but not bad at all. I never wanted for more female company at least, which was just fine by me. I suppose some of this could have been down to my looks.

During these periods I wore contact lenses. Now my eyesight is pretty poor to be honest. -6 and -5.5, throw in a healthy dose of astigmatism and you’re looking at some fairly thick milk bottle bottom glasses. No matter how good glass technology gets, that’s always going to be one whole load of magnetism going on which sadly will have an effect on what one’s eyes look like when viewed by another. And it’s not the best of looks. If you’re shortsighted like me, the effect is that my eyes look a lot smaller than they really are. And this seems to have had an effect on the way I am treated, especially by the ladies. Now obviously I’m married so it shouldn’t matter but it’s nice to be flirted with, even if it’s going nowhere.

Since I’ve started wearing contacts again, albeit on a rare basis, I’ve noticed a few interesting, and almost alarming differences in the way I am treated, again, particularly by the ladies, amongst other things.

For example, if I were to go into a shop to buy something and I be my normal pleasant self, say hello and goodbye in pleasant tones, joke if the opportunity arises, WITH MY GLASSES ON, I will, for the most part, get a fairly stoic response. In extreme cases I will just be ignored right up to the line of virtually acceptable customer service, but certainly no further.

Now I go to the same shop and act exactly the same way with my contacts on, the difference is dramatic. I get lots of smiles, plenty of eye contact and today when I was joking with the girl in ASDA, she started flicking her hair about and started doing coy glances at me. It could have been nothing but I still remember from my younger days that these things were a tip that I could push the conversation further than just polite to ‘fancy a date’ territory. And this is from someone who has a) previously given me nothing more than a vague courteous smile and b)was half my age. Now I could have caught on her a good day today but this is just one of many similar instances I’ve been through. I’m pretty certain that how my eyes look have initiated this change in reaction to me.

For example, my son was with me today in the ASDA, which goes to show how innocent I was treating the conversation with this girl, and even he noticed. When I mentioned that this sort of stuff only happens when I wear contacts he did point out that my eyes were looking particularly blue today.

So there you have it, girls might say that what really attracts them is a mans personality, sense of humour, reliability and wallet size but it’s all lies, what they really like is a nice pair of eyes.

edit: Oh and other things about wearing contacts.

1. My eyes feel cool all the time.
2. I can wear proper cycling glasses, it’s great!
3. Everything looks bigger.I notcied when I was buying some beers how big the bottles look. The real question is obviously, are things real size with contacts or with glasses. I hope the former because my knob looked huge!