Jenny Benjamin
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I was like, oh, oh, yeah.
Right, right, right, right, right.
Yeah, I'm going to need those.
It is.
These are invisible.
Yeah, they have no line, my bifocals.
In fact, I've also noticed that nobody likes to say bifocal anymore.
Oh, yeah.
Right.
That's taboo.
I don't have bifocals.
I just have lenses that let me see both distance and near.
Love it.
Every time I said bifocal, the doctor was like, oh, no, no, no.
We don't say that anymore.
Ben Franklin would be so upset since he invented them.
Benjamin Franklin would just be like, what happened to my bifocal?
They were.
So Benjamin Franklin wrote away to a friend, inventor slash eyeglass maker, and asked for specifically – he had a very specific design in mind, but he asked to have the lens –
split in half so half moons and they were stacked in one frame and the lenses were a little wobbly that's eyeglass making 101 you gotta make the lenses focus otherwise it doesn't work