A few randoms thoughts this Halloween ....
I love "The Walking Dead", but something about it bothered me recently. I came to the realization that very few people wear glasses in the world of "The Walking Dead". When I say "very few", I don't mean very few relative to the real world, I mean very few relative to the world of the Zombie Apocalypse. In the real world, the percentage of people who wear glasses is much lower than the percentage of people with impaired vision, because lots of people wear contacts lenses. However, in the world of the Zombie Apocalypse, contacts lenses would be hard to come by. Most people who wear contacts lenses have at most a year's supply of disposable lenses in their home. So, even if you had the wherewithal to gather up all your contacts lenses and cleaning fluid as you fled from the zombies, your supply wouldn't last much longer than year. Eventually, you would have to switch to your glasses, assuming you had a pair and were lucky enough to survive the Apocalypse without this happening.
"The Walking Dead" is in its 4th season, and judging by the number of glasses you see, it's doesn't seem like the contact lens wearers have switch to their glasses. How have these supplies of contacts lasted more than 3 years? How come we don't find people staggering around half-blind because their contacts ran out and they don't have a pair of glasses handy? Do all the people in the Zombie Apocalypse have 20/20 vision? What's up with that?
Dead people getting up and walking around, however?
I'm down with that.
My other October pet peeve is a baseball pet peeve that I was reminded of during game 3 of the World Series ( see my tweets from October 27th ).
I was planning to write more, but work just called me and it's 10:10 on the last day of the month. I'm going to need to post this now to get my October post up in time.
Rich
