Can I lay-by my new eyeglasses?
December 15th 2010 03:44
So while I was out shopping the other day, I decided to stop and get an idea of how much it would cost me to get an eye exam and new specs. After perusing the multitude of frames on the wall a woman approached and asked if I needed help.
As she showed me a pair of frames, I looked at the price tag and almost fainted – they were over three hundred dollars. I then noticed the glasses said ‘Versace’ on them. Yes, the designer to celebrities, whose t-shirts even retail for $350 dollars. So, while laughing, I said to the lady, “Do you have any other glasses that aren’t Versace?” She must have misunderstood the laugh to mean that I found Versace laughable as a designer and said, “Sure, we have Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana…”
Um, I think she missed my point.
But as I looked around the store I noticed every pair of frames had some famous and/or popular brand name attached. So, I told her to give me a price to put lenses in the glasses that I already have. After finding out how bad my eyes were, she said I would need the no-glare lenses for night driving, the special workmanship that helps them not look like two magnifying glasses on your face and that came to a mere $475 dollars.
Then it occurred to me.
Getting glasses is not something people choose. I didn’t choose to get glasses in the fourth grade so I could be called ‘Four Eyes’ and shunned from any popular group for the remainder of my adolescence. I reckon that the worse your eyes are, the more the government should help you with the cost. If you want to wear glasses because you think they look cool, well then take out your pocketbook. But people like me and all of the senior citizens who can’t tell a bush from a dog without their specs, should be part of a new government program I’m proposing called The Blind helping the Almost Blind.
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