Each backlit wall was covered with rows and rows of colorful and chic eyewear. Like every eye center, all employees wore glasses too and there was no lack in variety. Everybody looked stylish, because, after all, they know what frames look best on them. They are experts.
The woman brought out Matt's glasses. I mean, magnifying glasses. If we had been outside, an ant would have fried right then and there from the sun beaming through them. Matt put on his new glasses and I tried not to laugh. The conversation went like this:
Woman: How do they feel? Can you see better?
Matt: Um, everything's blurry.
Woman: Well, that's normal with a new prescription. You'll have to get used to it.
Matt: No, I mean, I see 100 times worse with these glasses than without.
Matt: No, I mean, I see 100 times worse with these glasses than without.
Woman: Hmmm.
Seriously, if Matt could see out of those lenses, he could tell that his eyeballs shrunk to pea-sized eyes. You don't see lenses that thick every day. Needless to say, there was an error in the prescription. A MASSIVE error.
We talked about it all the way home, trying to figure out what went wrong and whose fault this was (annoyed that we had wasted all that time in the car). Matt remembers the eye doctors testing his eyesight AFTER they dilated his eyes. WHO DOES THAT?!?!?! So there the doc was, fitting him for a new prescription while Matt was virtually blind from those drops.
He's now on his way back for a proper prescription. This time, he will NOT let them dilate his eyes, even if it means ducking out of the way. They said they would "hurry" the order so that he could get his new glasses. He's got better things to do than all of these trips, and let's hope that it'll be done right this time.
Let's hope. Sorry about time wasted. I sure wish I could have seen the "new Matt" wearing magnifying glasses!! But I can just imagine it!
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