What Is The Stupidest Question You Have Been Asked

[harry a saake]

questions

I actually had a lady walk into the dispensary, while crowded, no less, and ask me if we had any of those BISEXUAL frames. Everyone just cracked up.

[birdylove]

Just yesterday: "My sunglasses work great outside, but I can barely see when I wear them inside. Why is this?" Luckily, my coworker got that one, so I could hide in the back and try to supress my laughter...

[frank]

If a patient hands me a new rx and I see they are wearing progressive lenses, I'll ask them if they want no line bifocals again (they have no idea what progressive lenses are). They will say, "but I wear trifocals."

Was measuring a lady one time for a bifocal and she had her head tilted to high. I asked her to lower her chin. She did. She opened her mouth wide open but kept her head in the same place. Sort of like this :drop:

[frank]

Almost forgot the best one. A lady tried on a frame and noticed that it sat a little crooked on her face. She wanted to know if I could fix it. Told her it was quite common because most people have one ear higher than the other. She said, "I don't doubt that, I have one boob higher than the other." I just smiled and walked away (and no, I didn't look at her chest to see if she were telling the truth).

[Judy Canty]

Several years ago, a nice young lady came in with a question from her husband. "He's an obstetrician and every time he delivers a baby, his glasses fog up. What should he do?"

I had to leave the room.

[Karenrp1956]

Stupidest question, and I seem to get this one periodically:


"Why do my glasses move up and down when I do this?" (Pt. is moving glasses up and down with their hands)

On an aside, this doesn't pertain to stupid questions but I feel it must be said, but don't you hate it when a patient comes in, opens a battered eyeglass case to show you frame catastrophe and they say: "I opened up the case, and the glasses were just like this!"

(I actually told a customer once that I would fix up the glasses and replace the case...it MUST be defective.)
:drop:

Just goes to prove that there is a eyeglass goblin that goes from house to house seeking glasses to destroy:(

[Blake]

How about "I need some contacts"....slaps down a glasses rx on the counter. I just take a deep breath before I respond, hoping they just gave me the wrong rx and do not really think that glasses and contacts are the same rx.

Or when they hand you their glasses and say "just get the rx from these. I have had these 15 years but I know my eyes haven't changed".

One of my former coworkers once had a man hand her the wrong Rx - it was for Viagra! She said that was the first time she had seen a black man blush.

[Andrew Weiss]

Too lazy to log in as Fester---

How about " Can you make me beautiful?"

I wanna say "yes with the new Versachmani full shield occuleded collection"!

Uncle Fester

[Andrew Weiss]

Several years ago, a nice young lady came in with a question from her husband. "He's an obstetrician and every time he delivers a baby, his glasses fog up. What should he do?"

This is Andrew for real now . . .

Best misunderstanding: Years ago, I was taking in an order, and I told the young woman I need to measure her PD. She slapped me. Turned out she was an obstetrical nurse, and in her world, "PD" stand for "pelvic diameter" . . . :D

[sarahr]

A real one from today: Mum and 10 yr old son collecting his first pair. Mum is busy chatting to friend in waiting area and wandered over to sign the form. She looks at her son as says, "Oh My God I can see you've got rubbish eyes now, one eye looks HUGE"

And another thing, If you've worked in engineering all of your life sir, please do NOT;
1. Feel the need to tell me
2. Feel the need to interogate me whilst I'm adjusting your specs
3.Remove the frames from my hand so that you can show me where the bend needs to go
4. Tell me you could do it yourself but....

But please DO;

1.Take them home and break them then come and confess that they are actually different animals to the engine parts you used to make and your tools don't work on spectacles.
2. Go away and make yourself a frame which apparently you could do for a fraction of the cost.
3. Sit a degree in Optometry and then return to tell me how to DO MY JOB
Ah, that's better........

[Karenrp1956]

The eyeglass goblin struck again. A & A 180 frame was the victim, the patient was just wearing them and they fell apart. The goblin somehow stretched out the eyewire holes. We have got to start a tell-a-thon to help stop those goblins.

Also, how about the medicaid that think they can get two pair of glasses, or even contact lens.
they ask why their insurance doesn't pay for more, I want to tell them that I cannot pay for all of it. You know there use to be a time when being on medicaid was shameful, now it is prideful

[rep]

Stupid questions

In my previous life I can't tell you how many times I cleaned glasses in ultrasonic cleaners only to have customers insist that the glasses I brought back were not the glasses I left with.

So - These aren't my glasses are they? - (just after being cleaned and adjusted they don't recognize them) gets my 1st place vote.

One dear old soul went back home to get her husband who promptly told her she must be crazy because they were the same one's she had been wearing for the last 10 years.

My second place vote goes to the long time customer who came in with her husband's three pair of glasses and stated " I am bringing back Franks glasses, he barely used them. " I can get just return them for creditl can't I"

Uh - No

She left in a huff.


Rep

[Lynne]

And another thing, If you've worked in engineering all of your life sir, please do NOT;
1. Feel the need to tell me
2. Feel the need to interogate me whilst I'm adjusting your specs
3.Remove the frames from my hand so that you can show me where the bend needs to go
4. Tell me you could do it yourself but....

But please DO;

1.Take them home and break them then come and confess that they are actually different animals to the engine parts you used to make and your tools don't work on spectacles.
2. Go away and make yourself a frame which apparently you could do for a fraction of the cost.
3. Sit a degree in Optometry and then return to tell me how to DO MY JOB
Ah, that's better........

OH YES! Those engineers, or those folks that have been wearing glasses since age 9, and they NEVER had any that got scratched all by themselves like these do!! :cheers:

[frank]

And if one more person tells me that their lenses are suppose to be scratch proof, I'm gonna hit somebody. :hammer:

[Nettie]

Just today.........

"I need some of those flexy kind so they wont break when I sit on them"
and.....
"Will you please refund my order from six months ago and ring it up again today so I can claim it on my insurance?"



My head hurts.