Art by Gahan Wilson

Don't rub your eyes!

Charlie is lucky -- 1/3 of all examinees have the eyes of a medical coder, a florist or, worst of all, a teacher.

Optometrist George Mayerle’s 1907 multicultural eye chart.

My deepest darkest secret is that I meticulously picked through all the glasses frames in the store so that my glasses would look the most like Guillermo’s huge, round wire frames

i'm honestly a little jealous of people with good vision because it's like "what??? you don't need to pay to see??? you just SEE???"

!!LOKI SEASON 2 THOUGHTS!!

In the past O.B did not have glasses

In the present he does

Therefor there must be a T.V.A optometrist

Meaning that they captured and brainwashed some guy just to be a eye doctor for immortal time cops

Thank you for coming to be ted talk

Alms for the blind

   On June 30th I had an appointment with an eye doctor to get new glasses. The ones I got just last year are, sadly, no longer right for my Very Terrible* eyes. Even worse, the left eye was ‘out’ and the right eye wasn’t too bad - so each eye was seeing differently and that created a lot of strain.

   My regular doctor, who I’ve been seeing since - jEeZ over thirty years?! - has reduced his hours, getting ready for retirement. They offered me an appointment with another optometrist in the practice. I shrugged to myself and accepted it. I guess I knew it would happen someday. I had the appointment, with a very thorough screening for other issues (such as peripheral vision) and a double vision test (near and far vision). She told me she could hook me up with a new prescription that would fix the eye strain I’ve been having. I left very anxious to get the new ones. Along with poor vision, my frames keep breaking!

   I glued my current frames together one more time. This morning I was able to go pick up the new ones. I put them on and

WHAT!?

   They were - terrible! There is no other word for it. I could see distance, but couldn’t read at ALL. The lady helping me kept urging me to try holding the paper at different distances (she SAW me move it from a few inches out to arm’s length - I don’t know why she kept asking) or hold my head at awkward angles to see if that helped. She would not accept that they were wrong. The left eye had double vision and the right was simply a blur. Even my old glasses, imperfect as they are, let me read if I focus carefully. She very much wanted me to just give in and accept them. I’ve been a customer there at that same store, as I mentioned, for over thirty years. I feel like they should trust me a little bit. I would not say they were bad if they weren’t bad.

  She reluctantly put me down for a new vision check with my regular optician. I am so disappointed. I have to take my glasses off, currently, for reading, sewing, or detailed artwork. And hold the thing I’m looking at a few inches from my nose! I won’t be able to see him until the 24th, then I’ll have another 2 week wait for lenses. I don’t know HOW the lens manufacturers managed to screw up so badly and different for each eye. {exasperation}

* Last time I asked, my vision was at 20/400. Yes, twenty over four HUnDreD. That is “legally blind**” levels of bad.

** First I typed ‘legally bling’ and that - ought to be a thing, actually.

Contact lens

be honest, would yall let me be your optometrist

Scooby-Doo! Where Are You? #116

I just got to see a little girl get her first pair of glasses while visiting the optometrist (because my vision is shit) and she was so energetic and happy picking out the frames. Her mom had her choose between two and she happily grabbed the ones she wanted. Makes me wonder if I was like that when I got my first set.

I hope the mom is doing ok though. She had three kids. One was the girl picking up glasses, one was still in a stroller, clearly a toddler that probably couldn’t walk yet, and the last was a two week old baby that was crying. I hope wherever that lady is that she has a nice day because no doubt three kids is stressful.

Narrator: Later that day, George Michael was having his eye exam... and finding it to be just as difficult as his math exam.

Optometrist: One or two?

George Michael: Two. No, no, one.

Optometrist: Okay, two... or three?

George Michael: Three. Unless three is too much of an improvement. I’m sorry, is one... is one in the mix still?

This photo ran in the newspaper on June 23rd 1977! My grandma was so young! This is what actual woman empowerment looks like! ❤️🥹

Do your eyes need help?

The Artist Menaced By The Optometrist