I'm a little peeved. There is a certain members-only optical in my community that supposedly COSTs COnsumers less. They have an optical. Or so they say.
I get phone calls from the optical occasionally, sadly, when one of my patients gives in to the siren song of a four-gallon bucket of Smucker's Grape Jelly and $149 Essilor Ovation lenses.
These phone calls go like this:
"Um, we have Nana Mercer here with a prescription from your office. She wants computer glasses. Can you fax us a computer glasses prescription?"
"Uh, we can't fill your prescription as written. It has this weird +0.37 on it. Can you rewrite it with some diopter value that inputs into our computers?"
I have vacillated between being a nice professional-courtesy guy (as if you would consider this organization remotely professional), and being totally put off by solving "4-Tires-For-$299 Optical's" problems. Don't they have real opticians? Don't they have access to the same surfacing equipment?
(It's not like anyone is going to care if they're +0.25 or +0.50. That's tolerance.)
BUT I'M NOT TOLERANT OF MAKE-BELIEVE opticals.
What is the story, here?
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