Binocular tests

I have a rather notorious reputation for sending laptop computers to an early grave by spilling coffee on them. I can’t write without having a coffee cup nearby, so what’s a girl to do?

Fortunately, most binoculars are built of better stuff than laptop computers - I know because I have put my binoculars through the same kind of unintended spill test many times. Over the years, my birding binoculars, compact binoculars and even my astronomy binoculars have had unexpected rendezvous with a wide variety of liquid or semi-liquid agents, ranging from peanut butter, mayonnaise, diet soda, coffee (always coffee), pasta sauce (I keep a binocular in the kitchen) and just about anything I may have for lunch when wearing binoculars around my neck. M binoculars have also survived unintentional dunkings in lakes and streams.

It’s not that I am a klutz (though, by now, you probably have that impression). In fact, I tend to baby my binoculars. It’s just that I use binoculars on a daily basis and, after forty plus years of binocular use, accidents do happen. Nevertheless, I am proud to say that I have yet to send a single binocular to an early grave with one of my spill tests.

Now, if someone would please make a laptop computer as tough as a binocular, I would be grateful.