It pays to buy good goggles

As a wise consumer, I do what normal people do, compare prices and features, examine the level of different functionality of the item I need, and evaluate my budget constraint.

When we moved into this place with a swimming pool, I was excited with the prospects of doing daily swimming exercises without the fuss and hassle of travelling far and beyond.

So, later, I equipped myself with a nice looking swimsuit (sexy? I hear you ask... ) and of course, a pair of goggles to go with it, else it would be tough to swim laps with burning eyes from the chlorine-rich water.

Off I went looking for a pair of nice looking and sexy goggles to go with my swimsuit. A wide range of the item was in display, I was really spoilt for choice. If I had too much money with nowhere to spend, I didn't have to spend some good 30 mins looking carefully into the details of the different brands available. How nice if I can just grab the most expensive one and get on with the swimming exercise immediately.

Of course, I am not that fortunate. I decided I would at least need anti-fog feature, and selected the cheapest one available with the anti-fog, and the least I can expect my money was worth spending was to choose a cool color of the goggles to, undoubtedly, look cool.

So, there I go, happy with my purchase, and even happier when the first time I used it was a no letdown of the anti-fog. It was clear vision throughout my few hundreds laps.

Slowly, I realised, the anti-fog was not functioning properly. I can't throw it away just like that, can I? As it still looks good. So, I had to make do with the "weakness".

One fine day...

I went swimming with hubby. Some other people were around enjoying the pleasure of the pool, just like us. My hubby was right in front of me, and a few more laps, I could see from the other end that he was sitting on the edge of the pool resting. I swam to his side, and said "Never realised you have big boobs before", and turned over to swim back for another lap. I realised later he wasn't my hubby, who was that? I never swim back to find out. Now, how's that for a pick up line?

So, as the story goes, it certainly pays to get good goggles with reliable anti-fogging feature. Unless you don't mind being perceived as one ham-sap pervert though.