I'll be watching you...

Message of the day ??? I AM NO LONGER A P-PLATER! *na na na na naaa naaa* *muhahaha*

The time has come, I can bury my P-Plates in the backyard and start harrassing other P-Platers *muhahahaha*. I have been at the bottom of the foodchain for 2 entire years now it's your turn to suffer! I reckon L-Platers are so much more fun to harrass *haha*. Ok I shall leave it at that or people will actually start believing that I'm this mean ... when I'm really not *halo*.

Wait all I have to do is take them down right? I don't have to wait for some letter from some office with at least 3 signatures that allows me to take the P-Plates down, right? Yes that's right: bureaucracy! ALL OVER THE PLACE. I always thought India was terrible with all their paperwork, but this place is worse. Actually .. let me rethink, maybe not. It's just that people over here do follow the laws that have been created when India doesn't really. *teehee*... *thinkbubble: nawww I miss India*

I only bring this up now, because I have been trying to order new contact lenses for the past 2 weeks and this opometrist person is NOT letting me.

1. I went there all innocently and wanted to order a new pack of contacts and they tell me I can't, because my 12 months have run out. ... 12 months? Yes, apparently I HAVE to get my eyes checked every 12 months (and pay 40$) or they wont sell the contact lenses to me
2. Great I got my appointment and obviously slept right through
3. I go there to get another appointment and made it in time. I was there and all and the doctor saw that my left eye needs -1.75 lenses instead of -1.50, while my right stayed the same. She does 50 other tests and showered me with random knowledge that a) no one told me before b) I didn't really have to know and c) was completely reduntant, because I can't do anything about it anyway. All I wanted was CONTACT LENSES, right? Anyway, I finished the appointment and thought "hmm cool, I can now order my new contacts and go". HOWEVER by then, the doctor had for some reason decided (for me) that the difference of 0.25 would only really make a difference to my monocular vision, but not my binocular vision, and -1.50 would be "good enough for reading lecture slides and stuff" and also figured that cells were dying in my eye and that my eyes were turning inward and wanted to sell dodgy reading glasses to me to correct that, sooooooo ... I got a little annoyed.
4. I figured that if she just gave me a frigging trial pack of the -1.75 lenses, I could figure out what I find more comfi. When I tried to get a trial pack she REFUSED. So I told her so let's say hypothetically if I had a vision of -2.00 (which is a big difference), will you then also refuse to give me contact lenses with a higher prescription? She obviously "didn't understand" and so I politely asked again and she didn't want to give them to me! All in all I tried 3 times and failed. So I thought "okkk I will just order what she wants me to and call later and change the order to what I want", so I did that and left.
   
5. 5 minutes later I was back in the shop to beg for the contact lense trial pack in front of all the collegues, because I figured that I'm the customer and it's not very nice of them to refuse a service that they offer for free anyway... and guess what I got it *yay*.
6. I tried out the 1.75 at home (and really can't decide which ones to get now, but ...) called in, explained my situation and wanted to change the prescription order. AND GUESS WHAT. THEY ARE NOT LETTING ME, because of this law and that law! I now made another appointment and the doctor has to check my eyes again. I mean bloody hell. III need to decide what's more comfi not them . *ARGH*

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Younger Brother: Ribbon On A Branch