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The door opens slowly and one of the old time patrons enters. He moves slowly, tries to wipe the fog off his glasses, just to realize, he's not wearing them. Somewhat insecure and slow he makes his way to the bar, holding his right hand up in front to sense his arrival. ~bartender is rustling about.
~bartender? I know it sounds odd, but I can hear you being busy better than see your shadow ...
~bartender looks at the visitor.
I have missed you already? Hot spiced chocolate for you?
The man nods, adds water to the list and slowly heads for the next table. He takes off his jacket, opens his backpack grabbing for the notebook, as always, hesitates and puts it back with a sigh.
What's up with you?
~bartender is somewhat irriated.
Well, my eye problem has spread and currently I can see only with one eye and that quite badly. Reading is currently close to impossible. And the newspaper doesn't scale to 30 point fonts easily --- he adds a chuckle. Apart from that the light in here is nothing short of lousy.
~bartender laughs.
Oh well, here comes your order, maybe I should get the jukebox going for you then?
The man nods, tries to not tip over his cup of hot chocolate.
I need to see with my fingers. That at least works to some extent.
The man continues to stare into the void taking a sip of his beverages once in a while, while listening to the sounds of the jukebox. It does look like a boring moment, but who knows, what kind of interesting movies his brain edits for him to watch.
Little did ~ew know, that hot chocolate might have had a tad more than what was advertised.
I am going slowly blind as well. I am -2 diopeters right now and it is getting worse. I wish I hadn't messed up my eyes but I didn't know any better when I was younger. I should probably try to change my lifestyle but that is hard.