presbyreach
/ˈprɛzbiˌriːtʃ/nounVerified NewThe increasing distance at which a phone or menu must be held before it comes into focus, as the body's own eye test.
Arms are long enough for only so long; the day the text blurs at full extension is the day the optician's number gets found. Everyone performs the reach; nobody announces it. Presbyreach names the diagnosis by gesture.
Etym. — presby- (Greek, "old," as in presbyopia) + reach — a clinical prefix attached to a domestic act.
Rel. — pardonspiral
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