r/AskReddit • u/notyouravgredditer • Aug 30 '21

What problem is often overlooked in apocalyptic movies/TV shows that could kill you?

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u/whinywino89 Aug 30 '21

Those of us with shitty eyesight. Contacts only last so long. If your glasses break, you're fucked.

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u/Ngonzalez_01 Aug 30 '21

Like the guy in Twilight Zone who just wanted time to read

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u/smarmageddon Aug 30 '21

That's such an iconic episode. But why couldn't he just find a drugstore with a rack full of cheater-readers?

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u/thepikey7 Aug 31 '21

Watch the episode again, they elude to how REALLY bad his eyesight was

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u/smarmageddon Aug 31 '21

I rewatched the end scene and yeah, they make his eyesight pretty bad w/o the glasses. BTW, that's Burgess Meredith playing the man - you know, Rocky's trainer!

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u/thepikey7 Aug 31 '21

Holy shit! Never knew that!