Oh, do stop whining.

[GingerBiscuit]

It is the busiest saturday we've had in quite some time. We have all the staff we can have in, all the tills open, and everything is working fine.

I CANNOT DISPENSE YOUR GLASSES. You need to be properly trained for this, and I have been here three months. You can wait five minutes to get your measurements taken to ensure your prescription is in the right place. If I do it, I will guess, and it will be wrong, and you WON'T BE ABLE TO SEE.

If you don't have time for this, how about not getting your eyes tested and buying new glasses on a day you're short on time? And how about not taking an hour to choose them?

And seriously, the time you;ve spent whining at me about my inability to properly measure and fit your glasses you could have got a dispenser to you.

[ArcticChicken]

The thing I really hate about buying glasses is picking new frames. I've finally, finally found the perfect pair of frames, and I'm dreading having to get a new prescription, because I can't survive the 2-10 business days to get my new lenses put into these frames, and I'm not do they'd do it anyway.

Luckily, the only thing about my prescription that's changed in about four or five years is that my astigmatism is a little better, and so my current glasses will work. I used to have to get new glasses every year.

/threadjack

Also, what an idiot. I never plan to do anything timecrunchy after any kind of appointment.

[BookstoreEscapee]

My dad got new glasses recently and they screwed up the placement of the lens. Everything on the left side was coming in at an angle. He didn't quite realize it until he was driving and noticed that the grass on the side of the road appeared to be in the middle of his car. Luckily he realized what was happening (I think he'd have noticed if he was driving half on the grass) before swerving into oncoming traffic. Then he switched back to his old glasses and had to go back to the shop.

[GingerBiscuit]

people don't understand why we have to take measurements- it's because of stuff like that, with your dad. If the lens is in the wrong place, even by a millimetre, it can really mess up your vision. So we need to measure, measure, measure.

'don't you just have ones I can get off the shelf?' No. I presume you want to see.
'What measurements do you have to take?'
'Mainly pupil distance, but there's some other ones. I don't know, I'm not a dispenser.