#spite glasses

[callmebliss]

Ugh. I'm at my eyeglasses appointment, and Spite Glasses Lady is here. I still don't like her.

The receptionist is a fucking delight. Im crocheting, and she asked, "ooh, what are you making?" and I geeked out a bit about my current project to her, and then got back to it.

Then SGL came in, saw me crocheting, and said, "oh, are you knitting that for me?"

No. FUCK NO. Don't do that, y'all. Never. It isn't funny to any fiber artist anywhere ever. It's like saying "if there's no price tag on it that means it's free, right?" to a retail worker. It's a schmucky thing to do. Don't be a schmuck.

[callmebliss]

Dear State of Massachusetts,

It would be very helpful if you could make available online the (woefully limited) catalog of eyeglasses frames available for your vision patients. I get very nervous and don’t always make smart decisions when someone is standing over me, watching and waiting for me to choose a thing, and even worse if they are “helping” me (see my previously posted story about the Spite Glasses, currently on my face).

I would very much like to be able to look at the current catalog from the comfort of my own home, so that when I go in I am not making a choice under pressure, not plagued with the feeling that I am taking up someone’s time - not, in fact, taking up the time of the optometrist or optometrist’s assistant who is standing over me while I flip through the paper catalog trying to find the frames that suit me AND for me.

Please halp.

Kthxluv

Me

[callmebliss]

lordhenry replied to your post “Dear State of Massachusetts, It would be very helpful if you could...”

I think your spite glasses look beautiful on you either way.

Oh, they totally do, for sure, but the TL;DR version of the Spite Glasses story is that I picked them out because the optometrist’s assistant said to me, “Oh, you don’t want THOSE, those are Old Lady glasses.”

[callmebliss]

Hay gurrrrrrl