“One or two. Three or four.” Puffing, squirting, ice white lights drilling my eyeballs. That was Wednesday. It took me most of the day to recover from that and I had driven myself to the eye doctor.
Getting my prescription filled today was almost as grueling. After several no’s because they were either closed until Tuesday, or I didn’t have insurance that they used, not that my insurance would even cover new glasses, I ended up at Walmart in my county.
That was the best happenstrance ever. The girl was fantastic and spent two hours with me. She still uses her computer and also has the AI iPad which she can’t stand. She was told that eventually the desktop computer is going to go and they are going to be strictly dependent on the AI iPad. It doesn’t ask all the right questions and ended up getting her a screen freeze twice. It makes false assumptions for somebody like me because I am such an outdoor person.
I walked out of there spending $524 but that was for two pair of glasses in new frames, with a one year warranty on both pair. My very dark single vision sunglasses that I drive with and Bushhog with, and the bifocals that she spent a lot of time adjusting where the bifocal would start because I am so much of an outdoor person. When I go back to pick up those glasses, I’m going to bring her garlic sticks from Fazolis.
The $524 was not a bad price for two pair of very high tech glasses. It’s a good thing when my neighbor Bushhogged, even though he didn’t want money, I still gave him $500 because he has equipment to keep fueled up and maintenanced. Someone else would’ve cost me $1000 to get my pastures cut. The money I saved that I had already planned on spending went for my eyeglasses. Somehow looking at it that way didn’t make writing the check quite so painful —- everything in life is a trade-off.
WhIle the young lady was taking my eye measurements, etc. etc. another lady close to my age came in and had a seat beside me. The tech said you two might as well spend your time talking while I do this since you both have horses. Whellll y’all know where that went!!!! That was the best two hour waiting time I’ve had in a long time. Even the tech got involved because it turns out she and her husband rent their house out during The Celebration so we all knew some of the same people
So now I am broke and I’ll drink Boost until I get paid next week. Well, not quite but pretty close.
