Time For Some New Glasses

So, I had to head down to the grocery store earlier today to fetch the last of my pizza ingredients, but I made one stop first.

Next to the local Smith's grocery store (where I've been shopping lately, instead of the selection-challenged WalMart market), is an upscale optometrist's office. Most people don't know that I actually *do* wear glasses, mostly because I lost my last pair almost two years ago, and have been too lazy to go make an appointment and get a new set. But my prescription was extremely mild, and I only wore glasses while driving at night or going to concerts, movies, or sporting events when long-distance vision was a premium.

Also, that first year I was here, I didn't have vision insurance anyways, and was in no position to pay cash for an exam and a new set of frames and lenses.

But lately I've noticed that I probably should be wearing glasses. The road signs that I used to be able to read are now a little blurry. And I can tell that my night vision isn't nearly as strong as it once was. Plus I use a computer a whole lot more than I did back in 1991 when I got my first pair of glasses, so I know my vision has suffered. But I really notice at work, while sitting on a dead game in the casino, I can't read the progressive jackpot amounts on slot machines as close as sixty feet away.

So I stopped in there at the eye doctor's office to have a look around and find out what my insurance covered with them, if anything. Unfortunately, almost everything they had were expensive designer frames, so I didn't have high hopes for getting off cheap. But while they were looking up my insurance info, an optometrist came out to help me choose frames. After only about ten minutes of searching, I actually found a good-looking, stylish set that fit on my phat head. And in the meantime, it turned out that my insurance coverage was pretty good, so I'll get a free exam, and the lenses--if it turns out that I don't have a ridiculous or complicated new prescription, will only cost me about $60. And the frames I picked out, normally about $160 retail, actually came out under the wholesale price limit, so I won't have to pay for them either.

I ended up making an appointment for three weeks from now, giving them time to order the frames in my size and color, and they said the lenses will take about a week or ten days after that to come back. So in about a month or so, I'll be sporting some new glasses, making me look even more smart and sophisticated than I already do.


Mikey