LOL Etiquette

This acronym is really overused and starting to drive me crazy. Let me tell you what I see when I send you an email or text and this is your response:
“I have no clever retort so…”LOL”
“This is the nicest way I know to end this conversation so...”LOL”
I would honestly rather you not respond at all. "LOL" should only be used when someone has said something funny and you are in fact “laughing out loud”, or at the very least chuckling…
Also, please don’t make a statement and include “LOL” in it. Let others decide if what you are saying is actually funny (this comment applies mainly to facebook status). I’ll give you a quick and easy example:
“I can’t sleep LOL”
Nothing about this statement is funny, unless of course your insomnia is causing delirium…
My final “LOL” woe is people who make mean comments and then add “LOL” at the end. I understand that sometimes people are being facetious and don’t want to come off the wrong way, but more than likely your statement is how you feel, but you are hiding behind “LOL”. This is called being passive aggressive (If I posted examples of this behavior, it would only further infuriate me)
So dear readers, whenever you are about to use this acronym please ask yourself, “Is this in fact Laugh out Loud worthy, or does it at the very least warrant a smile?

Glasses

Turns out the "in" thing to do is see your local optometrist, so I decided to follow suit and schedule my own appointment. Big mistake!! After several invasive eye tests (I'm weird about eye touching and probing), I learned that I don't have glacoma, I probably don't have an eye or brain tumor, but lucky for me I have an astigmatism (thanks to everyone who pointed out that it's not "a stigmatism", it's an "astigmatism"). Obviously I was devastated by this news. After 25 years of enjoying (and bragging about) perfect 20/20, my vision had been compromised by old age. Against my better judgement, I decided not to get a second opinion (even though I felt I could see just fine) and embrace glasses. For those of you struggling with the same decision, here is Shee's list of pros and cons:

Pros:
-you look smart
-people take you seriously
-if you wear them while watching tv, you get the experience of high definition television (unless you're already rich enough to experience such luxuries)
-once blurry objects now make more sense

Cons:
-you spend more time cleaning them than actually wearing them
-you spend more time pushing them up on your nose than actually wearing them
-you look like a nerd
-you start to rely on them way too much
-you see things and people more clearly than necessary (please keep nose hairs trimmed!)


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