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Yesterday I went to buy some replacement contact lenses. I went to an optician that has boxes of all sorts of contact lenses literally lining the walls. I brought my empty box with me so they had all the type, size, prescription info.
When I asked the sales assistants (for some reason they had FIVE people to help simultaneously) for some of the same they said they didn’t have any. And they couldn’t order any either.
I went back over to one of the huge display cases – It seemed a little hard to believe that not one single box was going to be appropriate. I asked them if they had anything similar, on account of needing lenses to see. No.
OK, so what do they have? They rummaged around for a bit and came up with some daily lenses (I asked for 2 weekly), from some random Chinese brand (clearly dodgy) and for a prescription for someone who is very nearly totally blind (I’m not).
Realising that I was going to have to compromise, I then asked for Acuvue brand lenses if possible but said that dailies were ok.
After a small amount of rummaging, they brought out the below box. This is for a lens that is ALMOST IDENTICAL to the ones that I had asked for. I think the only difference was that mine were “Advance Plus” and the others are just “Advance”.
It’s a total mystery to me why they couldn’t have found these the first time around. Why is everything so difficult? And why is the first answer and the second answer (at least) always no. Urgh.
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