raleigh and i spent our wichita summer drooling over the small ad on the back of our archie and veronica comic book: glasses promising x-ray vision. squeezed between similar advertising for whoopee cushions and hand buzzers, the glasses were the subject of hot debate: how do they work? they can't really work, can they? wouldn't they cost a lot more? what exactly can you see? can you see through walls too? they must be a trick, but how good a trick is it for $1.50? are they worth it, or should we save for something else?
maybe not surprisingly, we never ordered them. i am sure we could have pulled together the money somehow, between the two of us, if we had really wanted to, so i can only imagine that there was a part of us that knew that it was the idea that excited us and the reality could only disappoint.
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