Making a spectacle

[caddyman]

I have just returned from SpecSavers having had my eyes tested for the first time since November 1999.

I have 20/20 vision over distance apparently, but need reading glasses and even then not all of the time. I’ve just spent near on £140 which gets me two pairs that almost, but not quite, make me look like Heinrich Himmler. Maybe I should now bring my plans for world domination forward.

It is interesting how the frames are priced, and how they (the staff) appeal to your vanity. It’s also interesting how the nicer frames are also the more expensive. Still, I always did have expensive tastes, and it’s probably worth it for glasses that won’t fall apart after 5 weeks’ occasional use.

As I’m off next week, I shan’t be able to pick them up until Monday 6^th February, which by chance is Waitangi Day in New Zealand, and two days after my birthday. In days gone by we used to celebrate that after work, the English calendar having no holidays of note between New Year and Easter, and 6^th February being about half-way between the two.

If I resurrect that aulde custom, I shall be able to see where I am going on my way home, or rather read the small print on the back of my tube ticket.

Comments

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

I'm now flashing back to last year when I discovered that it was cheaper to buy 2 new pairs of goggles than to just get lenses put in my old but still perfectly functional frames - talk about having a throw-away culture.
I also think that the evil genius who coined the term 'eyewear' thus turning glasses into a fashion thing should be shot. Thanks to him/her when you go into an opticians you have a choice of several hundred pairs of near-identical 'fashionable' glasses and three manky alternatives, if the shape you normally wear (which usually depends on the shape of your face and isn't really something you can change) happens not to be this year's big thing then you're screwed.

[ash1977law.livejournal.com]

Waitangi Day ?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

'Waitangi Day' is a day set aside by the New Zealand Government as a public holiday to be observed throughout the country as a 'national day of thanksgiving in commemoration of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi’ in 1840 between Mäori and the British Crown.

Or that's what the Governor General says, anyway. And he should know.

[robcee.livejournal.com]

you will never beat me in the himmler lookie-likey competition!

[queenortart.livejournal.com]

the English calendar having no holidays of note between New Year and Easter,

Hang on a mo, what about Pancake Day?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

That's an excuse for a feed, not a holiday!

[queenortart.livejournal.com]

You could take a half day off to squeeze your lemons if you so chose to!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I say. Madam!

[queenortart.livejournal.com]

Don't you take that tone of voice with me young man!

You also have to warm up the spoon for the golden syrup otherwise it gets really sticky.

(You know I always say that food and porn are just a heartbeat away from each other)

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

(You know I always say that food and porn are just a heartbeat away from each other)

If you're doing them right...

[queenortart.livejournal.com]

I believe my references reflect my skills and abilities in both areas, my good man!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Right. I'm off to plunge me head in a bucket of cold water...

[queenortart.livejournal.com]

Note to self

DON'T scare boys just because it's fun. BAD Suey.

Slap

[keith-london.livejournal.com]

No one can say to you now, "You should have gone to SpecSavers" :-)

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

"Squeeze your lemons"? A touch of the Robert Johnsons there, methinks.

Yes, Bryan, I just had my peepers inspected a week or two ago (I believe I even reported on the strange event). The exam itself cost me very little, but they stiff you on the glasses, though I'd rather wear them every day for the rest of my life than pop a lens onto the surface of my eyeball for a nanosecond. Contrary to what one of your darling readers says, I prefer the size and shape, and overall style of the cheap "manky" Heinrich Himmler specs to the rectangular, trendy, "designer" (ho ho ho!) items. The oculist told me that a wider lens that reaches from your eyebrows to just above your cheek is better for you, anyway. I'm assuming he's the expert. I'd be interested to see if two new pairs will be cheaper than one pair of lenses in the old frame. Maybe it's an NHS thing (the only disadvantage of living in America - no sensible health system).