Is it douchey to wear shades inside, even if you’re only going to be in for a few minutes?

  • monovergent 🛠️@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    Indoor lighting with sunglasses on is too dim for my tastes. Alternatively, my shades might be too dark. I’ll put them in my bag or on the brim of my hat, if one or the other are available.

  • Logh@lemmy.ml
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    10 hours ago

    A few years ago, I went out and brought myself a nice pair of perscription sunglasses, trouble was I didn’t have any spare cash to buy regular glasses. So, for about 2-3 years I had shades on everywhere I went, day or night. What I noticed is that if you’re confident enough people don’t really mind or act any different. Now that I have both, I easily keep the sunglasses on without noticing and there is no fuss usually unless I go into a bank or something.

  • phantomwise@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

    I never take sunglasses off inside, unless there’s an actual reason (like not enough light, or if I need to see colors correctly when shopping). There’s always too much light everywhere, it’s always too bright, and it’s even worst at night because of the contrast between the darkness and the blinding lampposts. So light sunglasses everywhere.

    As a bonus, that way I never have to bother with eye contact. Couldn’t care less if people think it’s rude: if I took the sunglasses off I’d inevitably forget to make eye contact and they would think it was rude anyway. Fuck eye contact.

  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Holy shit. I never realized that this could actually bother people. I thought the jokes about it were based in the same place that jokes about popped collars are.

  • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Depends on the sunglasses. Sometimes I’ll put them up on my head, sometimes I keep them on. I use them to deal with light sensitivity so they’re occasionally handy indoors.

    I keep 2-3 shades on me of varying darkness at any time. Usually I’m wearing light rose-tinted ones.

  • IttihadChe@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    On.

    I’m blind as hell without my glasses and I never remember to bring my extra pair so if I’m wearing my sunglasses they stay on no matter what. If it was only going to be a few minutes I wouldn’t swap even if I had my normal pair.

    I never understood the “sunglasses indoors in douchey” thing anyway.

    • phantomwise@lemmy.ml
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      13 hours ago

      I don’t get it either. If people wear sunglasses, whether inside or outside, they chose to wear them for a reason. Even if the reason is just “forgot to take them off”. No one’s deliberately wearing sunglasses to be rude to you…

  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Whenever I see someone with sunglasses inside, I always chalk it up to a) not being arsed to remove them, b) light-sensitivity due to migraine/hangover, or c) being on some sort of drug (sunglasses = invisibility cloak/comfort blanket for some folks).

    All of these are totally valid. Douchey is as douchey does, if folks are acting polite/keeping to themselves I don’t judge.

    • MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee
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      1 day ago

      Here 's one more. I wear glasses for my bad eyesight. I have sunglasses that have the same value of correction. Sometimes, in the summer, when I’m out and I don’t think I’ll go inside anywhere, I leave my normal glasses are home.

      So then, when you stop unexpected for groceries, you look like a douchebag with your sun glasses on, but you can’t really take them off because you don’t see shit without them.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Barring any eye issues, I remove them always when speaking to people. I find it disrespectful to speak without making visible eye-contact.

    • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zone
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      1 day ago

      What i hate is when someone gets offended i don’t initially recognise them when they’ve got half their face covered.

      Take the fucken glasses off and say hi properly you awkward ass bastards! I got shit to do, and i don’t need to feel bad for the next half hour because you made me squint to recognise who the fuck you are!

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Yes.

    You let people see your eyes so you can talk and put them at ease. What are you, a cop in Alabama whose authoritah someone needs to respect?