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Picked up the glasses last Monday and… they're wrong. Crisp for reading. Fuzzy and blurry for middle distance – distance.

 

Better if I tuck my chin down. This can't work.

 

It took me till yesterday to get a chance to go back in to convince the optometrist and get them sent back for fixing.

 

More tests: has my Rx changed again (no. I knew this, but they had to "make sure").

Half an hour later, we had reached the part where they ask me to look at them so they can make a mark on the lenses with a permanent marker to see where my pupil is.

 

peeve #1: So much fancy technological gadgetry in the optometrists' office and the last step is a human marking the "middle" of my lenses with a marking pen. So much room for error here.

 

peeve #2: The nice assistant kept saying: "Look directly at me. Tilt your head down just a bit." Well, which is it? If I tilt my head down a bit I'm not looking "directly at you. Maybe you should duck down a bit so you're in line with me. The current lenses work IFF I tilt my head down. I don't want to have to do that. That's why I'm here!

 

Finally, she marks the lenses, goes behind the counter, gets a ruler, and says "Huh. The measurement here isn't what we have on your chart / sent in".

 

I was very polite. I did not say "Well, DUH!"