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This year for my birthday my wonderful wife got me a beautiful spyglass that I had been lusting over.
I'm tickled pink to have one, and have every intention of carrying it on all future adventures. The question is, should I carry it at other times? It's small enough to wear on my utility belt, replacing the monocular. It has far better optics than the monocular, with variable 10-30x zoom. I'd need to find a better pouch for it, since the one it came with was pretty lame.
The thing is, I don't use the monocular a whole lot, but it is occasionally useful for checking if a bus is the one I want. I'm just not sure I could bring myself to pull out a spyglass in public. And if I'm not going to ever use it, it doesn't belong on the daily utility belt.
So, the question is: Would it be unforgivably pretentious? I hate to be a slave to my social cowardice without good reason.
I'm tickled pink to have one, and have every intention of carrying it on all future adventures. The question is, should I carry it at other times? It's small enough to wear on my utility belt, replacing the monocular. It has far better optics than the monocular, with variable 10-30x zoom. I'd need to find a better pouch for it, since the one it came with was pretty lame.
The thing is, I don't use the monocular a whole lot, but it is occasionally useful for checking if a bus is the one I want. I'm just not sure I could bring myself to pull out a spyglass in public. And if I'm not going to ever use it, it doesn't belong on the daily utility belt.
So, the question is: Would it be unforgivably pretentious? I hate to be a slave to my social cowardice without good reason.
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