C) "It would be wasteful to put them on right away"? It's not like your old glasses have to get worn out. It's a freaking fashion choice. Seize the glasses! Carpe speculum! (wait that means something else)
I know, but that's not him. I can see his position. First, he's thrifty--thrift is a traditional virtue and he wants to own it because he's a traditional guy (quite likely an actual Communist in the old school Mao sense, as opposed to whatever the Chinese are nowadays). So there's this "I should nurse a bit more use out of the old glasses" schtick.
Second, haven't you ever had something really nice, like maybe a grand marnier truffle or something, and instead of just snatching and eating it right away you want to savour the anticipation for a while, look at it and think, "You are mine, I can have you whenever I want, muahahaha!" before actually going for it? The enjoyment of actually eating it will be the same either way, but the anticipation ends the moment you take that bite.
Tattletale is actually an interesting character to me. He really shows off the author's touch as a storyteller. I mean, he's basically a comic relief character--he's the butt of jokes, he's at odds with most of our favourite people, he's to a fair extent defined by his lack of a sense of humour and the stick up his butt. He's a Squidward, except morally self-righteous instead of cynical. Many comedy writers, whether mangaka or webtoon or TV sitcom or whatever, would leave it at that--he'd be this completely one-dimensional person seen in purely hostile or mocking terms. But if you look at Tattletale's bits, this author makes him more than that. There's a sympathy there. In a weird way there's something awkwardly heroic about him--his uncompromising stance, his refusal to be swayed by the things normal people find important. He's steadfast to his ideals and his peculiar vision of how things should be through thick and thin. So you get things like the flag incident. That's more interesting. But also it says something to me about the writer--there's an empathy there and a commitment to real characterization that is part of what takes this a step above a lot of what's out there.
