Are you confused and befuddled when you are so certain that something is going to happen, and then it doesn’t? You are so certain it will happen because it has happened to you at least 40 times before, consecutively. You are sure it will happen because you talk to other people and they have experienced the same universal truth. This happened to me this weekend. Confused and befuddled, yes. Shocked and awed, yes. Happy and grinning ear to ear, yes and double yes!
What am I talking about? I’m talking about the simple act of purchasing a new pair of glasses…lenses and frames. My universal truth about buying glasses was that you can never walk out of an optician’s shop without spending at least $500! I don’t care how many coupons you have nor what kind of insurance you carry. I don’t care how many buy one get one offers are on the table. I don’t care if it is their President’s Day Sale or their New School Year Extravaganza. I don’t care if you are a tough negotiator and fight off all of the attempts to sell you extras! You are going to walk out of the place at least $500 poorer.
Until you don’t!! Friday I took Emma to get new glasses. I was dreading it. Not the experience, just the opening of the wallet. We were using her mom’s new insurance. I had no idea how good or bad that might be. The bill came to $550 but insurance knocked it down to $140! What?! Did I hear that right? A universal truth uncovered to be a falsehood. Yes! We walked out of there “saving” $410! Cinnabons on me!! Well, Cinnabon, because I am still on my nutritionist diet. Ugh.
A shout out to Emma who chose her new frames systematically and efficiently. She started at one end of the women’s’ frames wall and picked one she liked. Then she held that pair and compared it to another she liked. The winner of the two continued on and on. In other words, she never was comparing more that two pair of glasses at a time. The pair she was holding at the other end of the wall was the pair we purchased. No second guessing. No looking back. Brilliant!
Enjoy your day! In the Lehigh Valley it appears to be cold and blustery. A perfect day for busting universal truths!
A Semi-retired Kind of Life 