OPHTHALMOBLOGGING
I'm sitting in the waiting room of my ophthalmologist's office, waiting for the eye drops to kick in so my vision will be severely impaired. One of the many advantages of living in South Florida is that when you drive home from the eye doctor, seeing nothing but vague blobs, you are still driving better than 75 percent of the other motorists.
UPDATE: You know how when the eye doctor has you looking through that thing that makes you look like the Bug Monster from the Planet Wagomba, and he keeps going, "Is it better this way? Or THIS way? This way? Or THIS way?" And all the ways look pretty much the same to you? But you feel as though there's supposed to be some difference? And you don't want to disappoint the eye doctor? So you find yourself saying things like, "Well, the N looks a little clearer this way, but the P looks a little clearer the other way. Or maybe not."?
Or maybe that's just me.
Dave, the things we geezers have to put up with.
(By the way, your left blinker is on.)
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | May 22, 2006 at 09:36 AM
Jeff.. it's been on for the last three miles. I wouldn't take it seriously. It's a threat, not a promise.
Posted by: Kafaleni | May 22, 2006 at 09:38 AM
Good luck Dave. Don't make a spectacle of yourself.
Posted by: fivver | May 22, 2006 at 09:39 AM
Dave, it does make 24 make more sense as you watch it though:
BLOB 1: GET INTO THE CAR!
BLOB 2: Sorry, Jack, I can't do that.
BLOB 1: DAMNIT!
Posted by: tropichunt.com guy™ | May 22, 2006 at 09:39 AM
Dave, if you can read this eye chart you are fine to drive (in Florida that is)
D O N ' T
T A I L G A T E
I H A V E
A G U N
Posted by: LucyVanPelt | May 22, 2006 at 09:41 AM
I take it that the remaining 25% of drivers-- the better ones-- have chosen the same day to go to the opthalmologist.
Posted by: Jemmy | May 22, 2006 at 09:42 AM
but thigh-shooting blobs (WBAGNFARB?) are kinda hard to keep track of. Do tequila shots until the blobs make sense.
Posted by: Kafaleni | May 22, 2006 at 09:42 AM
I kind of enjoy the rush of trying to successfully drive while blinded by the ophthalmologist. It reminds me of my wild youth when I used to drive home after the bars closed playing the "Nobody can tell I'm drunk because I'm driving o-so-carefully" game. Please note: I haven't been a wild youth in quite a while. My KIDS aren't even wild anymmore.
Posted by: Betsy | May 22, 2006 at 09:46 AM
They need to come up with a new eye chart. I'm kind of starting to memorize it. I try not to, but it's been the same for, what, 100 years?
When they say, "read that line" I get a few wrong on purpose, just to fake them out. Is that bad?
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | May 22, 2006 at 09:49 AM
LBFF...It's not bad; I think you just don't want to keep going until you get to the line at the bottom with the eentsy teentsy letters which include both an 'O' and a 'C' so that they WIN!
Posted by: Betsy | May 22, 2006 at 09:52 AM
It reminds me of my wild youth when I used to drive home after the bars closed playing the "Nobody can tell I'm drunk because I'm driving o-so-carefully" game.
One trick I've found when playing that game Betsy, is always make sure your lights are on, otherwise cops don't let you keep playing.
24 Update: Chloe in person was Live on Regis today from Niagara Falls (and it looked cold out there!) but clearly Regis wasn't familiar with the show so the interview was boring.
Only 10 hours to go!!!
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | May 22, 2006 at 09:57 AM
Lisa, I do the same thing. And I've tried to get some wrong, but they can tell I'm lying and tell me nothing's wrong with my sight. It's almost like a game now.
Posted by: Jemmy | May 22, 2006 at 09:58 AM
Not being able to see must certainly reduce the fear factor of actually driving on the roads with the rest of the Floridians who cant actually see over the dashboard doesnt it?
Posted by: CoastRaven | May 22, 2006 at 09:59 AM
Good rule of thumb when driving impaired:
If you are seeing triple, take the road in the middle....
Posted by: clark kent | May 22, 2006 at 10:03 AM
Jeff...I assume you know this from an intensive on-line search, right? and *snork*!
Posted by: Betsy | May 22, 2006 at 10:03 AM
*snork* @ Clark!
and *snork* @ Dave's opthalmoblogging!
Posted by: southerngirl | May 22, 2006 at 10:06 AM
*snork* @ Jemmy and Betsy
Also, I don't understand that part where they ask you "better or worse...better or worse." I'm thinking, HEY, you're the doctor,you tell me!
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | May 22, 2006 at 10:06 AM
watch out for that first step, its a dooozy..
Posted by: queensbee | May 22, 2006 at 10:07 AM
Also Jeff - they dont think it is very sporting if you keep one hand on the curb while playing that game... thats prettty much an automatic D-Q.
Posted by: CoastRaven | May 22, 2006 at 10:09 AM
*grabs the ex ra "t" from above post and inserts it in this one*
Posted by: CoastRaven | May 22, 2006 at 10:10 AM
The eyedrops (sure it's not acid Doc?) are a pain, but at least you get to wear the throw-away Captain Zoomie glasses on the drive home. In the bad ole geezer days, they would put in the drops, wait until dilation occurred, then fire a 3 million watt flashbulb a mm away from your seared retina. You young snickerwhappers just don't know...
Posted by: philintexas | May 22, 2006 at 10:17 AM
One of the many advantages of reading your (not you're) blog is that when you're (not your)blogging from the eye doctor, blogging nothing but vague blogs, you are still blogging better than 75 percent of the other bloggers.
Posted by: bschuess | May 22, 2006 at 10:28 AM
Update: No it's not just you. You just have to decide which letters are more important for you and pick the setting that makes them clearer.
By the way, has he done the blow in your eye with a tire hose thing yet?
Posted by: fivver | May 22, 2006 at 10:30 AM
I always was under the impression that clear P is a good thing.
Posted by: CoastRaven | May 22, 2006 at 10:31 AM
Better get a note from the opthodoctor for the ride home...you'll look like you're high on meth with those big pupils.
Posted by: Olo Baggins of Bywater | May 22, 2006 at 10:32 AM
I think they do that "which is better?" thing so that if they get your prescription wrong, they can blame you.
Posted by: Bucket | May 22, 2006 at 10:35 AM
"Bug Monster from the Planet Wagomba" *snork*
bhchuess-We love his personal-story blogs the best.
(The morning goes like this: wake up, boot up computer while making coffee, log on to DB Blog, sip coffee and sing "yay, we're goin' to the Dr. w/Dave."
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | May 22, 2006 at 10:37 AM
Last time I was fully dilated, a baby dropped out.
(Watch out for that little side effect, Dave)
Posted by: Punkin Poo | May 22, 2006 at 10:39 AM
Ooooh, I hate the which is better thing.
And thank you, Dave, for reminding me I need to make an appointment to go to the eyedoctor myself.
Never had the blurring drops of which you speak though...
Posted by: Susan | May 22, 2006 at 10:39 AM
*snork* @ Punkin!
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | May 22, 2006 at 10:47 AM
Lisa, for some reason I keep trying to make "Yay, we're goin' to the Dr. with Dave" into a Sesame Street-esque song akin to "Me and My Llama." Just thought you should know.
Posted by: Jemmy | May 22, 2006 at 10:47 AM
*zips in*
Yes! To everything everyone has said here, including of course Dave.
The 'WHICH IS CLEARER' thing is the most annoying, because you all know, don't you, that there's a RIGHT answer and a WRONG answer, and you really have no idea which is which because they look exactly the same. So of course you have no choice but to make something up.
But you have a 50% chance of being right!
So Dave, is it time for glasses? Ask for "progressive" lenses. It's a baby boomer thing - very cool!
Posted by: Eleanor | May 22, 2006 at 10:49 AM
Okay, I have a question for the eye Drs out there. My little girl has been going to the eye doctor since she was a baby, due to a congential eye defect (and thank God for modern medicine-you saved her from going blind!) but when they want to check her depth perception they show her a 3-D picture of the scariest magnified bug they could find and tell her to touch the wings. As if she would! Usually at that point she is halfway across the room, and I get the bad mother glare because she isn't cooperating. So why can't the picture be of a pretty butterfly instead? Just seems like they'd get better results. oops, sorry, not funny. Booger.
Posted by: artchick | May 22, 2006 at 10:50 AM
Dave: Don't forget to stop at the Acme Novelty Shop and buy a kazoo on the swervy way home from the eyedoctor. Apparently you will need it tonight...Oh yeah pick up some Jack and Coke too
Posted by: philintexas | May 22, 2006 at 10:52 AM
*Snork* at punkin, and lots of others, too:)
We had a Japanese optometrist whose variation was, "Which is more better - THIS way or THIS way?" Somehow that made it even harder.
Now that I've been through a retinal detachment and much surgical mucking abaht with my eye, I am blase -- nay, cavalier -- about choosing which one is more better: compared with what could be going on, making that choice seems almost irrelevant. (I have yet to shrug and respond "whatever", though often tempted.)
Posted by: Betsy | May 22, 2006 at 10:55 AM
I like to freak my eye doctor out by shouting "Arial! Tahoma! Times New Roman Sans Serif!"
And that's just in the waiting room.
Thank yew. Eye'll be here all week.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | May 22, 2006 at 11:00 AM
Jemmy-I don't remember that one, so you may have to hum a few bars. :-)
(Or maybe you could just hum it at a few bars..But then maybe I wouldn't be at that same bar...So, okay, here's the deal...we'll meet at the bar...oh, nevermind. Is it too early for a mojito?)
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | May 22, 2006 at 11:00 AM
This one or this one? I told him there needed to be better differentiation. So he said, "Okay, A or B?"
Posted by: Sondra | May 22, 2006 at 11:02 AM
Annie..20 lashes for the cornea pun.
Posted by: bschuess | May 22, 2006 at 11:02 AM
Since WHEN do opthamologists care about how clear your 'P' looks???
Better check the guy's credentials, Dave!
Posted by: JT | May 22, 2006 at 11:04 AM
What they're after is that magic moment when there appears to be NO DIFFERENCE! So just keep going until you're pretty sure it's a toss-up, and tell'em that, and they'll leave you alone. (No fair doing it on the first round, though; they'll figure out right away that you're cheating.)
Posted by: Betsy | May 22, 2006 at 11:05 AM
Lisa,
It is a song about a girl who takes her llama to the (veterinary) dentist, and then goes to the (people) dentist herself. The girl is extremely excited to be going to the dentist; the llama does not seem to care. "Yay, we're goin' to the Dr. w/Dave" just seemed like a sort of sequel to "Me and My Llama," except that Dave is not a llama, or such is my perception.
Posted by: Jemmy | May 22, 2006 at 11:09 AM
It's test anxiety, Dave. Just pick "C."
I find that If I carry some out of state plates (diplomatic plates work well too)that I can even drive up on the sidewalk, into the lobbies of buildings,make left turns on red lights, and so forth and all I get is "tourist!" Yelled at me.
Posted by: mikey | May 22, 2006 at 11:11 AM
Anyone wanna butcher "Betty Davis Eyes" and turn it into "David Barry Eyes"??? (I'm just too tired to try) The best EYE can do is a little Frito Bandito tune: (sing w/ bad Mexican accent)
"Eye, eye, eye ,eye,
We are Dave Barry's corn-E-ahs!
We help him to look
and to write a new book,
and spot ramparts from here to Korea!"
Posted by: Punkin Poo | May 22, 2006 at 11:11 AM
Maybe it's just my eyes, but does the classmate at the far right of the ad banner at the top of the page look like anyone you know. Dave, good choice on the new glasses, but ditch to goatee.
Posted by: bschuess | May 22, 2006 at 11:13 AM
Never mind
Posted by: bschuess | May 22, 2006 at 11:15 AM
bschuess - Done and done.
Posted by: Punkin Poo | May 22, 2006 at 11:16 AM
Driving In FLA is nothing compared to driving the beltway around DC.
We would welcome the aged and impared, instead we have the people who eat their lunch while talking on their cell phones, while sending faxes and writing in their Blackberrys. Oh and this is while changing lanes at 75 mph(the far right lane speed).
If you honk or give them gestures that suggest that they do impossible things to themselves, they ignore you.
Thank Gawd VA allows one to carry weapons!
Posted by: mikey | May 22, 2006 at 11:20 AM
Jemmy-And it's eerily appropriate because, in fact, I have a dentist appointment today.
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | May 22, 2006 at 11:22 AM
Take your llama.
Posted by: Jemmy | May 22, 2006 at 11:24 AM
Susan: beware the drops!
Posted by: Suzy Q | May 22, 2006 at 11:26 AM
How right! I'm so decisive in life but when I have an eye test I feel I'm a bit of a dip as I can't distinguish between, "Is this, or this clearer." Fortunately the rest of my life isn't as hazy. I can usually tell if something is bigger, for example! Such is life. Jayne.
Posted by: Jayne | May 22, 2006 at 11:28 AM
Suzy,
What I hate most is the machine where they blow that puff of wir into your eyeball.
They even tell you ahead of time! And they say not to blink! RIIIIIGGHHHT!
Posted by: MIkey | May 22, 2006 at 11:29 AM
The perfectmatch.com banner ad-girl still has pink eye.
Posted by: Olo Baggins of Bywater | May 22, 2006 at 11:29 AM
the llama song
(not the one about going to the dentist)
Posted by: Sunny | May 22, 2006 at 11:31 AM
air nor wir=but it might aw well be wir!
Posted by: mikey | May 22, 2006 at 11:32 AM
(think Jackson Browne)
Doctor, Dave's eyes are really fine
He sees other cars most of the time
Without colliding, he's above most of his peers!
Just when he gets his drops
Pray he keeps away from cops
At least until he's had a chance to down some beers!
Doctor, Dave's eyes, can he see the blog?
Until he buys a blogging-support dog!
He has toured all round the land
With a disreputable band
Of authors, who have turned to music's charms
When they come into your town
Make sure the amps turned down
'Cause it won't be your eyes that will be harmed!
Posted by: insomniac | May 22, 2006 at 11:37 AM
Me and My Llama
(as though anyone is interested)
Posted by: Jemmy | May 22, 2006 at 11:38 AM
We would welcome the aged and impared, instead we have the people who eat their lunch while talking on their cell phones, while sending faxes and writing in their Blackberrys. Oh and this is while changing lanes at 75 mph(the far right lane speed).
mikey, you forgot to mention that they're (not their) doing all this in their 18 wheelers. Fun!
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | May 22, 2006 at 11:39 AM
from the dept. of redundancy dept -
*SNORK*@insom!
Posted by: Punkin Poo | May 22, 2006 at 11:40 AM
having spent years in that dark little room, i can tell you that the second one is always clearer. ALWAYS.
Posted by: kent | May 22, 2006 at 12:00 PM
Jeff,
Fer Shure during rush hour on the 95 495 interchange.
Inside the beltway joke folks.
Posted by: mikey | May 22, 2006 at 12:00 PM
It's all about Sharper and Darker Dave.
Posted by: Arlene Francis | May 22, 2006 at 12:04 PM
Thanks Jemmy and Sunny, now I two versions to sing while at the dentist!
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | May 22, 2006 at 12:17 PM
I went to the eye doctor so often as a child (No, wait, that was yesterday), that I memorized the eye chart, down to the 20/20 level.
E
FP
TOZ
LPEZ
FELOPZD
IKJFELOPZD
Except I made an error once and called out the "IKJ"" line before the doctor had uncovered it.
I feel guilty about that, now. Guess it is 20/20 hindsight.
Now playing: Blinded by the light
Next up: She blinded me with scince
Followed by: I can see clearly now.
Posted by: PirateBoy | May 22, 2006 at 12:18 PM
Dave, I have to get those drops too (apparently not everyone does), and did you know there's supposedly an ANTIDOTE? I learned that last year (after, for years, arranging to have someone with me at every visit so I could be driven home).
Isn't that just like the medical community..."we're going to make it so you can't see, and then we're going to let you waltz out of here looking like a moron because it's way funnier than giving you the antidote to let you see again!"
Posted by: Ann | May 22, 2006 at 12:19 PM
All visitors to FL should be warned that pulling out in front of oncoming traffic at the last possible second is considered competition event there. Extra points if you can get the speeding car with the turn signal on to lock its brakes!
oh, and it's not considered sporting to play with 20/20 vision!
Posted by: Chris | May 22, 2006 at 12:27 PM
I've had the "antidote" drops. They work pretty well, but you still feel like there's a sunlamp on your eyes when you go outside for a bit.
And that whole "is this better or is this better thing"? Yeah. I hate that.
Posted by: Angie | May 22, 2006 at 12:29 PM
CHris,
I thought that driving a 1998 Buick LeSabre (the old folks fvorite car) or Chevrolet in the left lane at 20 miles per hour with your left blinker on and not being able to see over the steering wheel was the norm.
Posted by: mikey | May 22, 2006 at 12:31 PM
I dated an optometrist once, but broke it off after a while. I just got so tired of him asking, "Is it better this way? Or this way?" when we were in bed.
Posted by: sharon share-alike | May 22, 2006 at 12:36 PM
Forgot to comment on the "air hose blow" into the eye!
I don't know why they even bother to say not to blink because they must know that there is absolutely NO WAY on God's Green Earth that you can stop yourself from blinking.
Maybe it's some form of eye doctor humor. :)
Posted by: Eleanor | May 22, 2006 at 12:36 PM
It is great to hear that others hate the "is this better or is this better thing"? It is just plain difficult and stressful. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a better way?
Posted by: Emily | May 22, 2006 at 12:38 PM
My eye doc has this magic machine that takes a photo of the inside of my eye. That way I don't have to get the eye drops.
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | May 22, 2006 at 12:43 PM
artchick: I too have an eye issue that required excellent opthalmology (and the willpower on my part not to rip off my glasses and patch between the ages of 3-10) to fix. I'm very familiar with the "3D" bugs, and I don't know which was freaker: the fact that the wings were supposed to jump out at me or the fact that they never did (which means either that I have no depth perception or that I had no desire for the wings to jump out at me and simply refused to see it, making the doctors think I have no depth perception). So yeah, they need to change it.
mikey: last summer, I had just gotten on 495 and I saw a car STOP DEAD because the driver realized he/she was parallel to his/her intended exit. Not slow-way-down and-get-over. STOP. As in "I can now put the car in park." In A MIDDLE LANE. Ever since, when I see people cut across five lanes of heavy traffic to hit an exit, instead of thinking "A-hole" like I used to, I think "now that's the proper way to panic about getting to your exit."
Posted by: Ann | May 22, 2006 at 12:49 PM
There is a rare and dangerous side effect of the drops where you start seeing double.
Posted by: fivver | May 22, 2006 at 12:51 PM
There is a rare and dangerous side effect of the drops where you start seeing double.
Posted by: fivver | May 22, 2006 at 12:52 PM
I like how they put magazines in the room where you wait after they've dilated your eyes. Gee, thanks.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | May 22, 2006 at 12:53 PM
Lab - Yes! optomap® Retinal Exam. My diabetic daughter gets this done so we can watch for diabetic retinopathy.
At her last exam, the doc pulled up the image from another patient who had the beginnings of it. It showed what it looked like for a diabetic who was beginning to go blind as a result of poor BG control. Because of this technology, the doc referred him to a retinal specialist to get it taken care of immediately.
I can talk about it until I'm blue in the face, but that was truly a picture worth a thousand words.
Posted by: MOTW | May 22, 2006 at 12:53 PM
"THIS is your eye."
"THIS is the eye of a diabetic who is about to lose his sight."
"Any questions?"
She was speechless.
Posted by: MOTW | May 22, 2006 at 12:56 PM
Angie: I can handle the sun sensitivity (I have 10,000 pairs of sunglasses as a result of not being able to wear them as a kid) but the last time I had the drops I had to have my ID photo taken for grad school then go set up my email password in a computer lab. Would have been nice to see more than blurry colors to do those things (and my ID photo was GREAT lemme tell ya).
LabSpec - sooooo jealous.
Posted by: Ann | May 22, 2006 at 12:57 PM
My eye doc has this magic machine that takes a photo of the inside of my eye. That way I don't have to get the eye drops.
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | 12:43 PM on May 22, 2006
A photo of the inside of your eye? Doesn't that get a little messy?
Posted by: slyeyes | May 22, 2006 at 01:03 PM
Dave - your eye dr. was worried about your P being clear - he didn't make you take your pants off did he?
Posted by: Kat | May 22, 2006 at 01:21 PM
Sly...yeah, especially when they set up the tripod.
P.S. As one of my post-retinal detachment valuable gifts, I got to have a vitrectomy, where they (gaaack) remove the vitreous fluid from inside your eyeball and replace it with, I dunno, WD-40 or something. Then you get to hold your head like "THIS" (depending on where the detachment was) for a week or so. Trust me, "THIS" is never looking straight ahead...it's always sorta like lopsided and tilting downward and you get to sleep in whatever piles of cushions, bricks, inner tubes and girders you can improvise to keep your head like "THIS".
Like I said, they can ask me their "is this better/worse" questions all they want, as long as they don't come near me with the scary instruments and the Shop-Vac.
Posted by: Betsy | May 22, 2006 at 01:23 PM
I remember my first encounter with an opthamologist (sp?), for an eye infection. The doctor, after numbing my eyes, dyeing them, and shining a bright bulb directly into them, he tells me I nearly went blind and hands me eye drops. (Like all of that helped any.) This was after an ER doctor told me it was just allergies.
They need to revise the health advice: don't touch your eyeballs; let a licensed professional screw them up.
Posted by: Alex | May 22, 2006 at 01:24 PM
Mickey,
20 mph in the left lane is common, but a cause for significant point reduction. It is way too easy to avoid a collision at 20 mph. Of course some of those lost points can be recovered under the geriatric reaction time clause.
Actual scoring can get a bit involved...
Posted by: Chris | May 22, 2006 at 01:24 PM
When I got back from living in Phoenix my dad -an optometrist- gave me an eye exam.
While doing the "is 1 or 2 better?" part all I could say was.
"Well one looks more like Russian and 2 looks more like Vietnamese."
"So what does that mean."
"I don't know what language was it supposed to be written in."
he then told me to read it. I did. Ha ha ha Rxchilbis
Posted by: Alfred | May 22, 2006 at 01:24 PM
1. Hated the patch when I was 2.
2. Really hate the tool-of-satan eye poofer test, the other test is almost as bad (the weird blue light gizmo - seriously, not blinking? it's touching my cornea!!)
3. Had my eyes dilated last Monday, antidote drops for the first time ever that day... I could almost see within 30 minutes, and was reading within an hour. Why did those bastards hide this from me? I know the secret medical hansdhake!!!
4. Las Vegas sunlight with dilated eyes sears directly through your brain and out the other side of your head even through 2 layers of dark sunglasses.
3 hour eye exam: free (supposedly)
possibility of not having to wear glasses anymore: priceless
possibility of being pulled over for driving like a moron (not that anybody'd notice here) with very red eyes, dilated pupils, noncoherent after working three nights in a row, wearing scrubs and a medical badge (access to controlled substances, woohoo!): even better
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | May 22, 2006 at 01:38 PM
("and he keeps going, "Is it better this way? Or THIS way? This way? Or THIS way?")
Some women I know tell me this is pretty much verbatim their bedroom conversation. Not with ME, of course... *G*
Posted by: Allen at Division | May 22, 2006 at 01:57 PM
Doc 2 to Doc 1: So apparently, ur jus supposed to give them this antidote...and all these years i've been telling them funny little stories before they leave...
Posted by: Bangi | May 22, 2006 at 02:07 PM
SNRK @ Bangi!
Posted by: Sarah J | May 22, 2006 at 02:17 PM
* Does 'i got a snrk frm Sarah* dance*
*trips*
*blush*
Posted by: Bangi | May 22, 2006 at 02:28 PM
To those that don't like 3d bugs- It was specifically built that way, if you react it means you see the 3d picture. This is especially usefull with children that can't explain what they are seeing.
There are so few pictures that work like this that the bug just gets used a lot. The others just don't pop up enough. I know. I had a lot of fun wearing those glasses and looking at the bug.
Posted by: Alfred | May 22, 2006 at 04:33 PM
Oh you guys! You haven't "seen" anything yet! You need to come and try out our roads in Johannesburg, South Africa, where drivers do anything at anytime and it doesn't really matter whether your prescription specs are up to date or not! We just drive really fast and hope we miss each other!
Posted by: Ros | May 22, 2006 at 04:33 PM
i.e., just like in Miami.
Posted by: Josh | May 23, 2006 at 02:41 AM
Thank God, I thought it was just me! I hope lots of eye doctors are reading this and realising that WE HAVE NO IDEA WHICH IS BETTER, we just want to be able to see better (without having some nutjob fire lasers into our eyes) which is why THEY spent ten years in Med School and then Eye Doctor School and get paid a fortune to tell us what our prescription is. If WE knew, we wouldn't need to go to see them and, via our health insurance, fund their expensive golf habits and keep their wives in Jimmy Choos.
Posted by: Iain Bowman | May 23, 2006 at 03:33 AM