I've been blogging on vox for quite a few years now, only joining and starting a blog as a easier/lazier way to mass tell all of one's friends about my traveling adventures (see picture for a brief overview of said traveling adventures), and decided that I do infact quite like scribbling down my thoughts onto a relatively anonymous website for all and sunder to see. So, as a result, I've decided to start a more ponderific blog here to capture my more random thoughts on a non strictly traveling vibe.My first rant, Vision Express in the Trafford Centre. How shit they are. For 9 months now I've been attempting to get myself a new pair of glasses and at the same time try to get myself a working pair of contact lenses. The glasses have been the biggest of these two pains in the arse, the first pair I was issued with were stiff, uncomfortable, gave me gargantuan headaches and were generally shit. I got a new pair of lenses made for them, exactly the same. Got a new frame, bit better but still pretty bad. Got another lens made, worse as they measured my eyes wrong, seemingly thinking that my pupils were located next to my eyebrows (ie. they put the centre of the lens next to the frame at the top, giving them an unpleasant bottom heavy wedge look). Got another lens made and fitted, seeming ok but back to the uncomfortable problem. 6 months of going in and getting them adjusted and they'd managed to turn my glasses into torture devices, headaches, double vision, blurred sight unless I looked straight ahead etc. Now, after a ridiculous amount of visits, they have given me a new frame with the old lenses in and realised that the problem all along was that the glasses needed curving around my face. Why didn't they spot this obvious thing months ago? Why did it take months and various idiots seeing me to discover this? Especially annoying since the very first time I went in I've been saying the glasses need to be closer to my face, which they took to mean via the centre, not even considering the outer edges.
To summarise, they're idiots for the most part, but its just so annoying that for the entire time I'm going in to tell them that there's something wrong they believe I'm just not quite used to the glasses yet and just do the standard minute adjustments without ever really listening to me.
Contacts, bah, don't even get me started. They work for the most part, that is unless I want to read or use a computer screen, then everything is blurred. Not a focusing problem, but getting them to understand this point is beyond my abilities. Time for a new opticians.
