... and by funny, I mean utterly unexpected and somewhat tragic.
Today is/was my Dad's bday, so we were gonna go out to eat with my Ate, cousin, and my cousin's boyfriend. Family. Yay. Then after lunch, we'd go to watch a movie (The Golden Compass, which deserves its own post), and generally spend family-bonding time.
Unfortunately, while I was in the car and cleaning my glasses on my shirt hem because they were smudgy, my frames snapped. Let me repeat this.
The frames of my glasses -- frames made from titanium -- snapped in my hand while I was cleaning the lenses.
And it didn't snap somewhere nice, like the bridge over the nose or the arms. No, it broke on the top of the frame above the right lens. This was impossible to fix and I am blind without my glasses on. Did I mention that these are the only glasses I own? The good thing was that we were a bit early leaving the house, so we went to Lenscrafters, which was luckily near the restaurant we were going to (and I have my prescription there). Then the bad started rolling in.
Lenscrafters couldn't fix the frame. They couldn't stick my lenses in a new frame. They couldn't even make me up new glasses because my prescription was outdated (been 3 years), and my prescription is so high in the first place that they have to send my glasses out to be made (no 1 hour for me :/). With no other choice, I set myself up for an appointment to get my eyes checked.
They also told us the jeweler/watchmaker across the way might be able to solder the frame of my glasses. However, when we got there, the guy took one look at my glasses and said no way, since the frames are titanium. He didn't have the right tools for fixing it. We even stopped by Sears (since they do optometry too), but no luck in fixing my glasses.
So I got to eat lunch pretty much blind. It was an interesting experience.
Anyway, went back to Lenscrafters for my eye appointment afterwards. I decided to get a prescription for contact lenses, too, hoping that if I couldn't walk out with glasses, they might have something in stock so I wouldn't be blind. But yet again Teh Powers That Be stepped in. I seem to have astigmatism, and the contact lenses they had in stock didn't correct it. So, whether I got glasses or contact lenses, I'd have to wait 7-10 days for them to arrive.
But, I was able to get a pair of trial contact lenses that work (I'm not blind) and will last until my permanent ones get here. Yes, I'm going to be wearing contact lenses now. But I also ordered a pair of glasses (since I might get struck by lightning or rip all my contacts or something) as backup. I'll be wearing whichever gets here first quite gladly.
And then we watched the movie and went to Victoria's Secret.
At least that was a good thing.
Today is/was my Dad's bday, so we were gonna go out to eat with my Ate, cousin, and my cousin's boyfriend. Family. Yay. Then after lunch, we'd go to watch a movie (The Golden Compass, which deserves its own post), and generally spend family-bonding time.
Unfortunately, while I was in the car and cleaning my glasses on my shirt hem because they were smudgy, my frames snapped. Let me repeat this.
The frames of my glasses -- frames made from titanium -- snapped in my hand while I was cleaning the lenses.
And it didn't snap somewhere nice, like the bridge over the nose or the arms. No, it broke on the top of the frame above the right lens. This was impossible to fix and I am blind without my glasses on. Did I mention that these are the only glasses I own? The good thing was that we were a bit early leaving the house, so we went to Lenscrafters, which was luckily near the restaurant we were going to (and I have my prescription there). Then the bad started rolling in.
Lenscrafters couldn't fix the frame. They couldn't stick my lenses in a new frame. They couldn't even make me up new glasses because my prescription was outdated (been 3 years), and my prescription is so high in the first place that they have to send my glasses out to be made (no 1 hour for me :/). With no other choice, I set myself up for an appointment to get my eyes checked.
They also told us the jeweler/watchmaker across the way might be able to solder the frame of my glasses. However, when we got there, the guy took one look at my glasses and said no way, since the frames are titanium. He didn't have the right tools for fixing it. We even stopped by Sears (since they do optometry too), but no luck in fixing my glasses.
So I got to eat lunch pretty much blind. It was an interesting experience.
Anyway, went back to Lenscrafters for my eye appointment afterwards. I decided to get a prescription for contact lenses, too, hoping that if I couldn't walk out with glasses, they might have something in stock so I wouldn't be blind. But yet again Teh Powers That Be stepped in. I seem to have astigmatism, and the contact lenses they had in stock didn't correct it. So, whether I got glasses or contact lenses, I'd have to wait 7-10 days for them to arrive.
But, I was able to get a pair of trial contact lenses that work (I'm not blind) and will last until my permanent ones get here. Yes, I'm going to be wearing contact lenses now. But I also ordered a pair of glasses (since I might get struck by lightning or rip all my contacts or something) as backup. I'll be wearing whichever gets here first quite gladly.
And then we watched the movie and went to Victoria's Secret.
At least that was a good thing.
