My friend while eating lunch with her binos on a harness stabbed the objective lens with a knife that she had sitting on her lap. Caps would have helped in that rare instance .[/QUOTE
Presumably this was a picnic lunch out in the wilds and not in the Ritz Carlton in San Francisco.
To avoid embarrassments like this and including other calamities to binos such as the careless slopping of mayonaise or salad cream or coffee, not to mention dribbles from fruit and crumbs from biscuits, we take our binos off our necks for picnics and place them safely to one side (avoiding any sheep or goose poo of course). Being a gentleman I will refrain from asking how your lady friend held a knife, blade point upwards, while it was 'in her lap'.
BC have you ever thought of writing screenplays for movies?
Lee :-O
I often eat snacks when hiking. I use rain guards (doesn't rain here in the summer) and objective guards (smacking into a belt buckle of some thing on my belt) just so I don't have to bother removing my harness.
The pair she pierced were Zen Ray 9x36 that I had sold her long ago. She's rich and so is very careless with her belongings. She just buys more without a thought. Not much like me who is very careful with things. I've stated this before but if I told all the stories about my friend everyone here would think I was making it all up. Breaking her wrist while using the Zeiss for the first time when taking them afield without a neck strap or harness is ludicrous for you or me but business as usual for her and a minor incident in carelessness.