When you are doing something potentially hazardous to your vision, and instead of grabbing safetyglasses, you squint.
OSHA inspector: STOP WORKING NOW!!!!
Diligent employee: I’m just grinding this metal? What’s the problem?!?!
OSHA inspector: you need eye protection
Diligent employee: (engages safety squints)
OSHA inspector: thank you for being a model employee
A potentially attractive male spotted at a distance, or at close range by a person with poor vision and no glasses. Upon closer inspection, or with the purchase of proper eyewear, the hottie in question is recognized to be either plain or very ugly--the dream of love at first sight has been crushed many a time by this shallow realization.
1. Jane spots a really cute guy across the room, but when she works up the courage to approach him, is shocked and disappointed to find that he only looked good from a distance. Her shallow search for physical beauty has led her to yet another Squints Charming
2. Before my corrective eye surgery, I could never really tell what my blind dates looked like, but after my surgery I realized I had been set up with a Squints Charming