2006-06-22

optometrist

There is something so demeaning about going to the optometrist.

"Read the third line from the top."
"I can't, it's too blurry."
"Just try."
"But it's--"
"Read it or I will shine another 9,000 watt lightbulb in your eye."
"Ok...um...Q...R...or...K maybe?...uh...Z"

And you know you're getting all of them wrong. And the optometrist gives you that invariably condesceding smirk, like you're the stupidest person alive. And you want to recite the alphabet to prove that you actually do know all of the letters; your mistakes are caused by bad vision, not illiteracy.

But on the upside, I'm getting a new pair of glasses.

zebrasaur at 11:27 p.m.

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