hey guys... some of us wear expensive sunglasses to better protect our eyes.. mine were more than $170... because that's what i had to pay to get a lens big enough that wrapped around for side protection and with enough ultraviolet protection to avoid eye strain while driving... i can avoid eyestrain from the lights of oncoming cars at night with these glasses.. and still see well in all light levels. they are worth every penny.
still.. i have left them on the table before..
because i can't see well without them... they are literally my glasses... i generally do go back immediately.. and generally they have not yet been found by waitstaff even when the table is cleared. If i am distracted when i leave it can sometimes take me a while to realize that my head hurts because i am squinting to see:(
Once a manager was standing in the door with a smile on his face and my glasses in his hand.
I have been lucky so far... but one of these days i am going to find myself trundling down to the optician to replace them:(
as for scratches.. a better quality lens can be polished to remove most minor scratches unless the UV coating is on the outside of the lens... tho the salespeople sure don't like to point that out...
and i think they can be polished and re-coated even then by a good optical shop.
i am not familiar with bamboo so couldn't tell you if it is possible to repair them or not.
as for the law, i went beyond "wiki-law" and was surprised to find that "finders keepers losers weepers" or "possession is 9/10 of the law" are no more than social contrivances to rationalize keeping something that we know belongs to someone else... however.. they are common enough sayings because they are the common reaction to found items...
otherwise we would never rave about the person who returned the item we misplaced...
had these been a cheap pair of sunglasses instead of expensive... i suspect that this conversation would have been a lot less heated if it had been started at all.
And that's too bad because the cheap sunglasses may be as important to the person who purchased them as those costing substantially more... the price shouldn't matter so much, should it? But it does... both in conversation and in what we keep when we find it abandoned.
With the knockoffs these days.. i wouldn't know a cheap pair of sunglasses from an expensive if i found them...
unless of course they were mine .. or someone else's prescription :) with those i could tell right away .. as could any fool who put them on their face ;->