Opticians! (Blog 375)

Today I went to the opticians! It’s a bit depressing how I’m legally blind or at least nearly legally blind without my glasses. It’s even more depressing when I see people without spectacles in their 80s driving cars. I didn’t feel relieved when an OAP nearly crashed into my car a few years ago, but at very least I did feel like a superior driver which was something. He just had superior vision, well I’d hope anyway. Otherwise he’s beyond screwed. Very recently at the back of my mind I thought the eye appointment was at 11:20 not 11:40 even though I wrote the latter down. After phoning the place up, actually it was 11:40. They say trust your gut but clearly don’t. Maybe the confusion was that I planned to LEAVE at around 11:20 shortly after organising the visit? Well, 11:00 anyway. Having said that, I shouldn’t have been confused as I got a phone call the day before the visit confirming my appointment. :(

After a number of adjustments of some strange optical equipment, it was found that my left eye has got slightly worse over time, which was what I was expecting as I hadn’t had a checkup in about three years. However, my right eye has got a bit better!! That’s never happened to me before. I didn’t even know if that’s ever happened, but judging buy the guy’s reaction, it has. I have a long way to go before my vision is perfect definitely, but who knows what the future will bring?? If with some ultra modern technology I could live to 1,000, my eyes could eventually be used as telescopes! Let’s see what the internet says about getting your vision back. Google says eyes can get better due to second sight. I Googled what second sight meant and it means the ability to see into the future. There seems to be some confusion there, so I’ll leave it.

After that stuff, I was given an opportunity to read a small bit of writing of a random book, proving at least in a way I wasn’t a complete idiot, which is what most people believe. I’m not saying it’s not my fault, it’s just the way it is. I would have like to have taken things further and analysed what the writing meant on a deeper level, but I wasn’t given an opportunity in a way that didn’t make me sound weird. I was hoping the optician would ask me to, I mean weirder things seemed to have happened, but he never did. Dammit. Then again, as I only read a sentence, really it could have meant anything. And what if I was wrong? The eye specialist had seen the writing much more than me after all, I was a mere noob. Anyway, I then had a VERY bright light shone in my eyes to ‘check if they were ok’. It seemed like they could literally have blinded me, who knows maybe thats how the people make their money. ‘You didn’t need new glasses before? You do now!’ That kind of thing. I've just checked and I said something similar in my last optician blog. Whether that makes me paranoid or simply consistent, I don't know. You really don't want to be paranoid and irregular, otherwise you'd get a very different writing style. Like 'Aaarggh!!! Actually wahoo! No, yes! No, argh! Wahoo!' That's not funny...

Still though, as my left eye (my apparently strong eye) didn’t get too much worse, I left the place reasonably happy. I was told to leave the examining room BEFORE the optician, making me feel like a king amongst men, then another staff member called me his friend as I paid for my new glasses that I ordered! I would have said how I felt, but again, no opportunity came up in a way that wouldn’t make me sound mental. I did however say ‘thank you’ at least, and I guess that’ll do. After all that stuff, I bought some petrol station hash browns. The person warming them up has been giving me less and less over time in a very gradual and devious way, she thinks I haven’t noticed. I have noticed and I’m annoyed. I haven’t said that, but I have given her at least one funny look. It didn't get me anywhere though. And with mixed feelings, I end this blog! Bye!