I am far from the first person to do this but I’ve done it a few times now so I am recording it for posterity.
I used to be able to hold things right up to my nose and keep focus on them. Then again, I also used to be in grade 3. Time marches on.
When I couldn’t quite make out the expiry date on a tub of sour cream (and who wants to eat sourer cream?) I took a photo of the tub using my phone, then zoomed the image in to read the date, as seen below.
Sadly it turned out the date really was kind of illegible all along.
The best I could figure was August 28, which at the time would not have been past the expiry. I passed, anyway, just to be safe.
See? With age you may lose focal strength but you gain wisdom.
