Do You See What I See...

Task #7 Make a Truthful Visit to the Optometrist

If you know me, you know that I am virtually incapable of lying.  Call it a voice in my head, a gut feeling, the angel on my shoulder telling me “no, no, no”…I simply cannot bring myself to do it.

Now I’m not saying I can’t joke or give my rendition of sarcasm because it is in those cases, in which lying is blatant and expected, I find no trouble with a little light hearted humor.

There’s a saying that states to every rule there is an exception.  This is mine: Since I can remember, when visiting the eye doctor, I have never been the most truthful when it came to the Eye Chart.  You know which one I speak of; the one that starts with the enormous “E” and proceeds into a pyramid of unrecognizable print.

Here is my confession:  I always read out the letters of one eye, memorize it, switch eyes and repeat.  Now you may be wondering, “Why in the world would you do that?”  My answer doesn’t really justify anything, but I might as well share my skewed reasoning with you since I’ve already revealed this much.

The way I figure it, the same prescription on both eyes means:

1)      I never have to worry about keeping track of which side of the case I put my contacts in

2)      I only have to keep one spare in my purse because if it rips or falls out the matter of which eye would not be an issue

3)      When I do find myself in the above predicament I will not wait in hope that my other contact will tear or get lost due to uneven numbers.  This way if the same thing happens again to the same eye, I am still A-OK in the balance in numbers of the contact world

See, I told you it wouldn’t make much sense.  So my Task today was to visit my optometrist and when standing at the tape looking at the pyramid of disappearing text I would SAY IT LIKE I SEE IT.

AND I DID!!! Yep, you are reading the blog of a girl with two different prescriptions and two different boxes of contacts to prove it.