Old Tired Eyes

My 20/20 vision is gone; however, my very cute, but very married eye doctor, who did flirt with me, told me that my distance vision is amazing. I am the hawk! :) True, what most people can see at 20 feet, I can see at 40 feet, yet seeing the eye of a needle two inches from my face is near impossible. A total blur.
So, he told me that I need a 1.25 prescription which he says is best suited to purchasing cheap London Drugs specials. "Who needs to spend $300 on designer frames?" I followed that up with a very shallow and self interested, "uhhh, but do they look cheap? Will I look sophisticated in a pair of $14.95 glasses?", so he filled in a prescription and said with a very cute wink "I'm sure you'll look great in anything, but here is a prescription."
During the exam, he put these really silly looking glasses on me and then dug around this tray of lenses for the appropriate strength. I was feeling pretty low with needing glasses until I recognized that the tray was very organized from least to greatest strength. My lens was in the bottom left hand corner of the tray, up near the top of the right hand corner I spied a 20 strength! If this is progressive, I wonder when the doctor will be reaching for that corner? Perhaps 1.25 isn't so bad afterall.
The 1.25 makes reading close much better but I have a very hard time seeing anything further away than my computer monitor or reading material. Who knew getting older would be so hard?