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    What Is The Stupidest Question You Have Been Asked

    I Still Get A Headache When I Try To Figure Out What She Was Looking For When A Customer Asked " Do Metal Frames Come In Plastic ? "

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    Sometimes you have to read between the lines with customers. If I were you I would have shown her some of the new "flat" metals.....they're metal but with a thicker than usual eyewire, giving it a "plastic" look.

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    It isn't necessarily so stupid, but the one that cracks me up over and over is this...

    Doc, why do my eyes feel soooo heavy?

    You just have to be in the south to understand how funny that can sound!:D

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    Quote Originally Posted by SpecialT View Post
    It isn't necessarily so stupid, but the one that cracks me up over and over is this...

    Doc, why do my eyes feel soooo heavy?

    You just have to be in the south to understand how funny that can sound!:D
    I don't get it.

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    I got a new one today... I've never heard this and I had to keep from cracking up in front of the patient.

    My elderly patient came in complaining that her glasses were made wrong. I asked her to please explain what her problem was... well she said, "I can't see out of these when I'm sleeping"

    :drop: Are people that dumb?!?!
    Smile, it makes people wonder what you're up to :bbg:

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    My personal favorite is "Is the obsetritian in today?":hammer:

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    Quote Originally Posted by rj_gonzales
    My personal favorite is "Is the obsetritian in today?":hammer:
    I especially love it when it's a man asking this one ... ;)

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    Had an opthalmologist tell me: "I'm not a prism man, can't you do it with de-centration."

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    Do you change watch batteries?

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    Quote Originally Posted by rj_gonzales View Post
    My personal favorite is "Is the obsetritian in today?":hammer:
    No, Obsetritian here. But, if you'd like I could schedule you an appointment with the Optometrist.

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    What about this: The medicine ran out of my glasses. I think that one is an ethnic maybe even geographical one, but I get it from time to time-- down here in the South :)


    Paula

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    Quote Originally Posted by kaypaula View Post
    What about this: The medicine ran out of my glasses. I think that one is an ethnic maybe even geographical one, but I get it from time to time-- down here in the South :)


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    LOL! That's hysterical :hammer:

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    Quote Originally Posted by kaypaula View Post
    What about this: The medicine ran out of my glasses. I think that one is an ethnic maybe even geographical one, but I get it from time to time-- down here in the South :)


    Paula
    It's not ethnic or geographical. It is the prescribing doctors responsibility to inform the patient and give the basic information about their prescription and routine care. It's their responsibility to inform the patient that it's the eyes that changes not the prescribed lenses.

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    Big Smile

    Quote Originally Posted by mrmac
    I Still Get A Headache When I Try To Figure Out What She Was Looking For When A Customer Asked " Do Metal Frames Come In Plastic ? "
    :hammer: :D :bbg:
    hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahhahahaha
    omg i can't breath

    have people gone crazy??

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    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.

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    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...

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    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:

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    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).

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    Quote Originally Posted by frank View Post
    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."
    Every damn time, haha. That or they say "Transitions" when they mean "progressive," but that is understandable, just a matter of synonyms :P

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    The stupidest question I ever heard followed 15 minutes of filing and adapting a temple to a long discontinued frame purchased somewhere else.
    "Why should I have to pay for this? Its not my fault it broke."

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    I once had an old lady bring in her false teeth, asking if I could mend them!

    Best one is "Could you give me a screw please as my husbands tool is too big"

    Or the lady contact lens wearer that came in with severe red eye, she was storing her lenses in urine....................yuk!

    Another lady sat on her glasses in the bath.

    Or the gent that ran over his flexon's with stylis panamics, with the lawn mower.

    Once had a trainee that we showed a bog standard CR39 lens to, the packaging had been adapted to show "Reactowhite Lenses" a new photochromic that offered all the protection of reactolites without changing colour, we even wrote a fictitious letter from head ofice, claiming how good the lens was...........hook, line and sinker! He could even see the difference whilst holding them up to the light, amazing.

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    A couple more...

    How did the sugar look in my eyes? (referring to diabetes)

    I tell them that I think they may have glaucoma... They ask "Is that bad?":hammer:

    How much stigma is in my eyes?

    The one I really like is when they come in without any glasses, contacts or old records and they ask "Has my prescription gotten worse?" Half the time they ask before I have even started the exam.

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    How about "can she wear contacts?"

    No way to say for sure without the effort being made no matter who you are or what your education. You may be able to say no, but you sure can't say yes with certianty.

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