I have with much soul searching
now where did I put that bit of me that I loosely call my soul? decided I really don’t like some people and how they behave. The pandemic made me come to this momentous decision after a full 300 frigging years of puppy-like squirming to be loved, gone in five or so short months.
Looking back over an action packed life of the great and the good, and all stations in between, the cold hard fact is I don’t like what I see. I need new specs that bit I do know, off to pick them up this morning, The opthalmic howsyourfather said as I left his lair of pie charts, wall art squiggles and torture contraption of rest your chin here and peer through these Titanic potholes rescued from the bottom of the ocean type thing...
‘These glasses will be on a par with the ones you have!’
‘Wot?’ I stupidly thought as I coughed up 69 quid for a replacement lens that won’t do anymore than the cheapo ones I already have!
A monocle would be cheaper and far more stylist I thought as I drifted 69 quidlets poorer out of the shop!
It wasn’t only that though...
I am just that way out at the mo!
When I get new glasses I come out with a bill for £500. How did you get away with £69 for a lens? Or are they National Health specs, blue plastic? Don't start blaming everyone else like everyone else is doing, it's just so boring. Take responsibility for yourself and stop complaining.
ReplyDeleteWill do! The lens are in a pair of glasses I had bought in Hythe which didn’t cost anything like £500, which because of my wildly differing needs of each eye, proceeded to make feel boss-eyed. So the optician put one in to replace the one that was like a bottle top. Next time at your suggestion I will request he rose tints them, that should make the job a good’un. I enjoyed your pithy comment Rachel, cheered me up no end.
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At least the prescription on my glasses only changes about once in 7 or 8 years so the £500 gets spread over. I only wear them in the evenings to watch tv! You are welcome. Hopefully soon people can stop talking about complaints about life as it is and just get on with it. I am puzzled as to where the fear comes from, watching/listening to too much News I suspect and social media.
DeleteI'm needing to visit Specsavers too as I'm getting a pain next to my eye, however, I'm getting all sorts of weird aches and pains just now and I'm putting it all down to Coviditis - terror of Covid!
ReplyDeleteI need new glasses as mine are a bit Harry Potterish at the moment, they broke and hubby did his best to fix them but I feel they will fall apart at any minute. I always get the £69 glasses in Specsavers too, I don't see the point in spending loads on 'designer' glasses. I got those reactolite (I think thats what they are called) glasses last time and never again. I walk about in the dark half the time, they react a bit too much for my liking! Yes Covid has shown us some very bad behaviour and its sad not to mention worrying. Stay away from them!! Take care. xx
I have reached this great age without needing glasses, so I am not complaining just having a quiet grouse. I only need glasses for reading, it is truly amazing what problems until now I have been totally oblivious to. How the blooming mighty have fallen... you have to laugh!
DeleteI love you looking odd with the addition of the good old sellotape, I can see it on the Autumn catwalk anytime soon... good for you girl!
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Dutch Reader here. What does : These glasses will be on a par with the ones you have!’ mean?
ReplyDeleteHello Adie, it means that they will be the same strength, so nothing to be gained by having the new lens! I could have saved my money and kept the ones that I bought in the library for just a couple of pounds. Silly me!
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My glasses are minimum $500 out of pocket. I find it worth complaining about.
ReplyDeleteIt does feel good to grump especially about something that costs a lot of hard earned cash. They are necessary so best we cough up and get on with it, although that 500 could be spent on something so very much more exciting.
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Getting old ain't for wimps that's what I find! I try to hold on to my glasses and my teeth as long as possible, but can't do it for ever! Yesterday I had a molar pulled at a cost of $380. My glasses should have been replaced 2 years ago,that's an other $500. Those things are not covert by our health insurance! We are lucky to have some savings but what about people who don't.
ReplyDeleteI'm not complaining, I'm happy with my life, I just don't want to get any older.
No, I agree! I had a couple of fillings last week and with all the PPE and extra cleaning of the surgery after my visit I thought the £304 I was charged was money well spent.
DeleteI was dithering about in a shop being a real dotty old bird, mind you, when I think about it I have been like that most of my flaming life! I said to the young woman serving me ‘Don’t get old!’ Her pithy reply... ‘Better that than the alternative!’ I laughed and thought have some of that LL! So ruddy true though!
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Oh I love that photo. My recent eye exam shows I don't need new specs so I am keeping the ones I have, which I like. The frames are blue so of course I like 'em. That is a good deal you got on the price.
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