I'm the same way about my sunglasses. They are there to keep the sun out of my eyes, if I can see around them they aren't working right.

Of course, this reminds me of the first great thing I noticed about contacts (which I first got when I was trying for competitive soccer), peripheral vision!

I broke a lot of glasses as a kid, my face seems to be made for it. Combine very little bridge on my nose, with a nose shaped like a ski slope and naturally oily skin, oh and a prescription that made for thick lenses. I once breaked too hard on my bicycle and had my glasses go flying and shatter on the pavement. (Shatter-proof apparently did't apply to this particular mode of breakage) Even when I didn't break them, I was pushing them back up my nose every 5 seconds.

So, umm, I agree that tiny lenses are silly for anything but reading glasses.