For a long time, I didn’t think I could wear contacts. Ever. My eyes are super sensitive to eye drops and so I just thought I would never get to wear contacts and I had come to peace with always wearing glasses.
A few weeks ago I decided that I wanted to try anyways, so I setup an eye appointment. I had to find out where my eye insurance was taken, and it turns out that it’s accepted at… Wal-Mart. Yeah, I had to go to the Wal-Mart Vision Center. To be fair though, it is a real eye doctor and he’s attached to the mega mart. Unfortunately though, his employees are… on par with other Wal-Mart employees. Sit back and listen as I tell you the tale.
The appointment went well, they had to order my contacts so I left and waited for them to call me when the contacts arrived. I had been told it would take a week at most for them to get in. Well, after two weeks I called the eye doctor and had to be put through the ringer as they tried to figure out what had happened.
Eventually the girl came back and asked, “Did you want to get frames?”
*facesmack*
“No, I wanted contacts. You guys were ordering them for me.”
“Oh, okay, well let me go look into it.”
A few minutes later she come back and said “Well we had ordered your contacts, but I’m not taking any chances so I’ve ordered another pair for you.” What I heard was “We messed up and we’re scrambling now.” So another week passed before finally getting called and heading down to pick up the contacts.
Now, you’re supposed to be given a walk through on how to put in and wear your contacts but when I arrived the guy there gave me my contacts and sent me on my way. I was already confused but we tried to put the contacts in and had issues. Namely that I couldn’t get them in and when I tried for the second time I dropped it and, like contacts do, it disappeared.
So the next day, after three weeks of delays, I call the eye doctor and request a replacement for my lost contact.
That was two weeks ago. Today I called them and inquired about my contacts. Lo-and-behold my contacts had arrived but no one had called.
After work I head down there and get there around 6:45pm and they’re all sitting around in the display area. I explain what’s going on and the Doc is visibly upset that I was sent out last time without a walk through about the contacts. They lead me into the back room and sit me down to watch a DVD about putting on my contacts.
As I’m watching this DVD though one of the women comes back and says “Well we’re supposed to leave at 7 and do you mind coming back for an appointment?”
In my mind I’m saying: HELL NO. NO NO NO. F*CK NO.
I actually said, “Well, I work 9-6 this week and I leave for the weekend on Friday so…”
She turns and heads off saying that she’ll work it out. I settle back down to watch the amazing Oscar winning DVD about wearing contacts.
After the DVD finishes another woman comes back to work me through with the contacts, first she puts the contacts in my eyes, then I get the opportunity to do it. I put them in and take them out, then pack up ready to leave. Well no, as it turns out, they want me to wear them for three hours tonight. So I’m wearing them now and here is a pic of just how I look without my glasses.
