Yargh

• 27th November 2003 at 20:33

Too much work to do - project stuff for tomorrow, website due Monday, literature review and compilers coursework due a week on Tuesday... gwah!

So anyway, today I had another eye test. I'm sure that all of you who are regular readers of my diary will remember the fun with my glasses... well, I went back today and got my eyes retested.

To simplify the explanation, we will say that prescription A is the prescription for my glasses which I am wearing at the moment, which I got in 2001, and prescription B is the prescription that I got from an incompetent in Sevenoaks in September of this year, which is in my new glasses.

Prescription B was different to prescription A because the right eye prescription had changed a bit, and the left eye had changed a lot. (When I say a lot, I mean a lot, she showed me the numbers today)

So, I had my eyes tested. First she checked my vision with prescription A, and I scored 6/7 or something, which she later said she would not have expected if they had changed as much as they had from A to B. Then I tried reading it with prescription B, and couldn't even get through the third line (you know, where the letters are so big that even blind kids can read them).

Then she put the machine in front of me and tested various different lenses. I played mark's game of saying 'hmm, I'm not sure, can I see those again?' many many many times, and then saying 'hmm, yeah, they look the same'. And 'Yep, definitely the red. Or maybe the green. Yep, the green. Or perhaps it was the red. Hmm, could I see again?'. To be fair, my answers were truthful, but it was still amusing to hear her voice trying to be patient. Poor lady.

Anyway, turns out that my new prescription in the left eye is identical to that in A, and the prescription for my right eye went up from A by 0.25. "Interesting," I said to the lady, "because I think that's how much my contact lenses were changed by after my first aftercare." I was, of course, correct.

So it turns out that my new prescription is identical to my corrected prescription A (which was corrected for my contacts about 3 months after I got my glasses in 2001, which means they got that one wrong too). This means I have just spent £130 on new glasses which I did not need. Well, I guess the paint was peeling off these a little...

And the best bit? I don't have a Boots advantage card, so didn't get any points for them. Sorry Leela :)

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