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Songbird76

Songbird76

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So we took DD to the eye doctor today...she's had yearly checks since she was like..5? Every year they say it's not too bad, but by next year she'll probably need glasses. Now that she's 11, she doesn't have to go to the hospital to get them checked, she could go to any place to get checked, so we made an appointment at Specsavers. They checked her eyes and she's still just got a tiny issue, but her sight is still fine and she doesn't need glasses. I, however, do. I didn't know you could just walk in and make an appointment. I thought you had to go to your doctor, ask for a referral, then make an appointment at the hospital, etc, because that's what we did with DD and with DH. My doctor wants to check my weight and everything every time I go in, and I hate that, and I didn't want to take the bus to the hospital, because it only goes once an hour, so I have been putting it off even though I have noticed I can't read signs and bus numbers the way I used to, so I was putting it off. When DH said "Well, now we just need to make an appointment for you!" the eye doc said "Oh, you want to get yours checked too? We can do that in about...15 minutes from now." "YES PLEASE!" 30 minutes later, I had picked out 2 pairs of glasses (BOGO) which I can pick up in 2 weeks. I'm so happy...if I'd have known it was that easy, I would have done this 6 months ago!
 
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Goofyernmost said:
My father had nothing but Buicks as did my Grandfather. I bought whatever I could afford, but, when I came back from Vietnam I decided to reward myself and buy a brand new 1970 Buick Skylark. I kept that car through 1977. It was part of every important thing in my life. My first date with my eventual wife, My first job out of the service, Our Honeymoon, Took my wife to the hospital to have our first baby and later brought our tiny newborn home, still had it two years later when baby girl number 2 decided to join us. Rinse and repeat. It was part of many firsts. I jokingly used to suggest we have it bronzed and placed on our mantle as a tribute to our lives. But, at the time I didn't have a mantle so we let it go.

This isn't going to sound like much based on todays cars, but I managed to squeeze 120K miles on it before it got to the point that I couldn't trust it anymore. To many things were breaking. Those of you that were around during that time know that if you got 70K out of a vehicle you were blessed. Nothing major ever went wrong with it and the only time it didn't start in all the time I owned it was that day. Even then it started OK for me to get home once every thing calmed down and all were sleeping. It was later in the morning when I was attempting to go back to the hospital to see how everyone was doing that it failed me. Fortunately, a town plow happened down the road at that time. I lived at the end of the street and the plow had to back into my driveway to turn around that I got them to give me a jump start. With that the car started immediately. It was the battery that had given out. Put in a new, cheap battery and never had the problem again.

Yes, they were considered "your grandfathers car" later on, but, it was highly prestegious to own one when I did. I had three other Buicks after that as well. I guess you could say that I was that Grandfather that they were talking about in recent years.
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I bonded with my first car, a new car, my Mustang. Was so sad when she passed on. :(
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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Songbird76 said:
So we took DD to the eye doctor today...she's had yearly checks since she was like..5? Every year they say it's not too bad, but by next year she'll probably need glasses. Now that she's 11, she doesn't have to go to the hospital to get them checked, she could go to any place to get checked, so we made an appointment at Specsavers. They checked her eyes and she's still just got a tiny issue, but her sight is still fine and she doesn't need glasses. I, however, do. I didn't know you could just walk in and make an appointment. I thought you had to go to your doctor, ask for a referral, then make an appointment at the hospital, etc, because that's what we did with DD and with DH. My doctor wants to check my weight and everything every time I go in, and I hate that, and I didn't want to take the bus to the hospital, because it only goes once an hour, so I have been putting it off even though I have noticed I can't read signs and bus numbers the way I used to, so I was putting it off. When DH said "Well, now we just need to make an appointment for you!" the eye doc said "Oh, you want to get yours checked too? We can do that in about...15 minutes from now." "YES PLEASE!" 30 minutes later, I had picked out 2 pairs of glasses (BOGO) which I can pick up in 2 weeks. I'm so happy...if I'd have known it was that easy, I would have done this 6 months ago!
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Nice! Last time I went to see my eye doctor, it took me several days to get in, and they fit me in because my migraines were getting so bad.

It really does make a difference. Yesterday I forgot my glasses and had a horrible tension headache by the end of the day. Sometimes ya just don't realize how much of a difference they're making.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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StarWarsGirl said:
Nice! Last time I went to see my eye doctor, it took me several days to get in, and they fit me in because my migraines were getting so bad.

It really does make a difference. Yesterday I forgot my glasses and had a horrible tension headache by the end of the day. Sometimes ya just don't realize how much of a difference they're making.
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That's part of why I was putting it off. It's always horrible trying to get an appointment. One year, I missed the letter that they sent with DD's appointment and ended up having to reschedule and it took another several weeks because they were so full. They send you a letter and tell you "This is when your appointment is." and if you can't make it at that time, you have to call them and then it takes forever to get in. But apparently they do not have this problem at Specsavers. They take walkins. Easy-peezy!! I hope I get fewer headaches once I get the glasses!
 

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