Approx age: 2 years.
Approx age: 2 years.
clean a pair of glasses before they look disgusting.................................
Originally Posted by pknsbeans
Nosepads looked like that 50 years ago, but had nice gold plated metal inserts to hold them in place.
These days in the age of these new electric toothbrushes and the dentist still handing you a free manual old style brush, after a yearly cleaning job for a $ 140.00, which is the perfect and free instrument to clean a pair of glasses before they look disgusting.
Just mention this to your patients when delivering new glasses to them
I'D give this a 6 on the "YUK" scale of 1 - 10.
Well, did that cheese grow onto the lenses? If so, 9 out of 10.
If just crusty on the nosepad, I second the 6 out of 10
I once worked in a lab where they had a song about face cheese. Quite amusing.
Last edited by mervinek; 08-10-2017 at 08:33 AM.
5 outta 10.
We had one the other day that required literal chiseling of the cheese to free the pads and screws (and yes, there was considerable lens involvement as well), multiple baths in the ultrasonic, about 30 minutes with the *big* toothbrush, and countless Kimwipes. That one was about a 9.5 on the gross-o-meter for us.
What I still struggle to understand, is how when it gets THAT bad, people can both be so completely oblivious and/or unconcerned about putting that crap anywhere near their face...let alone near their eyes!
That ain't nothin'! Wait till Sewerman comes to visit you...
Years ago, we had a guy walk in for an adjustment, I'd dealt with him before and knew what he was coming in for. I let my new optician have him. He'd bent his glasses and needed another adjustment. She comes back into the lab holding them with 2 fingers, took them to the sink and started scrubbing them with soap and a toothbrush, the whole time going "eww", "yuk!" "He must clean his toilet with these.." Little did she know....
I told her to ask him how they got so dirty. She did..." Oh, they fall off now and then when I bend over into the muck". After she sent him on his way, I told her his occupation, Sewer worker. Gagging, she emptied a bottle of alcohol and used about a pint of soap trying to wash the memory away. OMG I laughed so hard. This optician doesn't work with me any longer, but when I run into her I reminder her about him...She still doesn't find it funny...( boy, I do!)
Ditto to all of that! I loath when it takes that many steps to handle people's grossness.
Have I told you today how much I hate poly?
6 out of 10.
I once refused a 10 of 10 for a patient and HE looked at ME funny when I told him, "Look, this is out of control and effin gross."
Erik Zuniga, ABOC.
mervinek are you going to share that song with the rest of us?
Always get them just before lunch. But you know your a real optician when it doesn't bother you any more.
I've just lost my ability to care anymore. Every few years though there are those abominable frames that come through that shock your system, like an existential punch to the gut, your hands sweat and your stomach turns. Your head reels at the fact that this is really happening. Somehow if you can keep treading forward though the task can be completed, the cheese disintegrated swirling in the ultrasonic like dark memories of past horror. It is in these instances that you can truly feel alive. It is then that you know what it is to be an optician.
Face cheese, Face cheese! Icky squishy face cheese! Face cheese, Face cheese...eat it up YUM! (to the tune of the old fish heads song)
Stephen King should write a story.
I put a frame in the sonic cleaner that had widespread face cheese involvement. When I took it out, the eye-wire came apart. The face cheese was holding it together where it had run very thin from acids in the skin.
"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee."
That's Deep.
i think i'm going to be sick
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