(People have all sorts of names for the sides, or temples, of spectacle frames. I have heard them called “legs”, “props”, “wings”, and “crutches”, among other things. A very strident woman marches into our practice with her teenage daughter in tow.)
Customer: *loudly* “I want you to spread my daughter’s legs. They won’t go behind her ears.”
Me: *speechless*
Customer’s Daughter: *speechless and cringing with embarrassment*
- The Terrors Of Terminology from Not Always Right
so reading that first part was an important piece of context it turns out