Told a WHOPPER of a Christmas Lie Today...

[JuniorMintz]

To a four year old little girl who came in for an exam this morning.

She was soooooooooo excited about getting glasses and didn't understand why she didn't get to take her frame with her today (it takes about a week to have the lenses edged and mounted), and I swear without hesitation, I told her this...

"Sorry sweetie, but you can't take your glasses today. Santa has to pick them up tonight and take them to his workshop, and the lens elves are going to make it so you can see really good out of them. Don't worry though, you don't have to wait till NEXT year to get them, Santa's going to send an elf to bring them back to us sometime next week. Does that sound good?"

And she got SUPER excited... "You get to see Santa TWICE?!? NEAT!!!" then handed them over and skipped out the door with her parents who were laughing and waving goodbye.

My workers, however, were doing this... :wtf: :lol:

Seriously though, LENS ELVES?!? I'm better at spewing bullshit than I thought!

[Chanlin]

That was creative I think. And when it comes to children its not a lie if it involves santa. And it seems like the parents were cool with it so all is well :)

Lense Elves.... I have to remember that one....

[BookstoreEscapee]

That's so cute! How many little kids are that excited about getting glasses?! :lol:

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I like that.

Are these lens elves know any jewelry elves by chance? I want to have a word of prayer with the Head Elf.:p

[blas]

That amazes me that some children are excited about getting glasses. My brother and I were both pissed (I'm sure we were mini SCs :(). I got contacts as soon as I was old enough, because I was refusing to wear my glasses. I'd take them off as soon as I was dropped off at school and my teacher told my mom, so I was to the point of getting in trouble for refusing to wear them. Funny irony here, little brother pulled the exact same thing. I'm so happy my mother let me get contacts at age 11. I'll never wear glasses again, not even reading ones or spare ones. I'd rather cover one eye while driving to ShopKo if I lost my last one. Very round heads run in our family and I don't look good in any glasses, except for over the top huge Paris Hilton type sunglasses.

Cute story. You handled that just perfectly!

[tropicsgoddess]

My kid sister was about 6 or 7 years old when she first got her glasses. She was excited about them and I couldn't blame her. The frames she got looked awesome. There aren't too many kids that are excited about getting glasses, but then again that beats getting braces.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I wasn't too excited to get my glasses. Especially not when it turned out they would be Coke bottles.

I refuse to wear contacts but at least my glasses are thinner now. Still, the day when I get Lasik (if I ever do) cannot come soon enough.

[Camry178]

That was too cute. I think I'll use that next year when the kids come to my place for their glasses.:D