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That time they drew the black line on the display glasses to order where the bifocal line should be and you said it was too high so they redrew the line but you wondered about it still but they’re the ones who know their job right and they went ahead and the glasses came in and you took them home and you put them on and the line was just barely below center in your vision when you’re walking and you couldn’t see the kitchen counter and it threw off your balance and you could only see if you tilted your head down a bit and that doesn’t work when your husband is 6’8″ and you’re 5’5″ and you took them back the next day and explained that you were in a car accident years ago and your ability to balance at all depends on visual feedback and you have to be able to see like you did with your old glasses and they said well these are crooked anyway here let me fix those for you and then they put the new glasses back on you and asked you to check them out and you stood and turned to see across the room to get the depth-perception thing going and to see where that line was now and next thing you knew you were falling over backwards and splat on the floor and the store was freaking out and the manager wondered if he needed to file an incident report and you said you were fine and thanks for the icepack and they called someone and spent half an hour filling out an incident report and had you sign it and you realized afterwards you couldn’t tell the difference between city and county and what were their names when you were filling it out and hesitated and wrote the wrong one and why does your writing look so bad but it came back to you pretty fast so that’s okay and you filled in the right one next to the wrong one and you told him you tell your kids you’re going to be a terror when you’re 90 and he cracked a smile for the first time and took a deep breath?
Yeah that time. Today. That was the time they decided they were going to redo those glasses for you and could you just leave the one pair with them so they could make sure they got it right and then bring the other pair back and they’ll duplicate it once they knew those were good?
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OY! I hope you’re ok. And I sure do hope they get those glasses right!
Comment by Jody 06.29.17 @ 7:46 pmYikes … please stop falling down! If you don’t we’re going to have to knit helmet covers for you (-:
Hope the glasses are right this time. I always tell them to put the line 1mm below where they think it should be, otherwise I get seasick.
Comment by Anne 06.29.17 @ 9:05 pmLike Anne says, please stop doing that.
Comment by LynnM 06.30.17 @ 3:56 amI’m hoping “that time” was years ago and “today” was when everyone on your team tried to prevent a repeat of “that time.” Stay upright and knitting, will ya!?!
Comment by DebbieR 06.30.17 @ 5:36 amWe’re going to have to wrap you in bubble wrap! Rest up and take it easy.
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