During the summer I occasionally accompany the school-age bunch to the swimming pool. It’s a pleasant way to spend a couple of hours, but I always get a headache because I don’t have sunglasses. I used to have some clip-on things, but I lost them and my glasses are a weird size so I can’t find replacements. So I bit the bullet and went in to get prescription sunglasses at LensCrafters. “Glasses in about an hour, prescription almost right.” Since it’s been too long since I’ve seen the eye doctor, I needed an exam. Things are high-tech now! The assistant sat me down in five different machines that did tests for depth perception, glaucoma, colorblindness; it also had an automatic prescription guesser and I got a retinal scan.
When I finally sat down in the doctor’s chair, they had all my info pre-loaded into a computer. I paid extra for the pictures of my retinas. Perhaps we’ll use them for our Christmas cards – they’re pretty flattering.
The funny part was that he said, “Yes, your prescription has changed. Your eyes are getting better.” Ha! I always guessed that would happen, since I’m horribly nearsighted. He said, “When a person reaches their mid-thirties, their eyes stop changing in the one direction and go the other.” I said, “You mean late twenties, right?”  (I didn’t, but I shoulda.)