I've mentioned the various incompetencies of specsavers before, in great detail... and I had sort of been hoping that it was just the Kings Heath branch being crap.

Apparently not so much. 

Last month I went for an actual eye test.  That started badly when, after 50 minutes sat in the waiting area, I thought I'd go and ask how much longer I'd be waiting.  Only to discover that they'd actually forgotten I was there.  Great.

Eventually got my eye test, which was fine.  Left eye slightly worse, but not really much, and not enough to necessitate new glasses unless I wanted a new pair anyway.  Which I did, because my spare pair (used for kayaking!) are a bit scratched, and held together with gaffer tape in one place and electrical tape in another...

Chose some frames, blah blah, they'll be ready in a week. 

Two weeks and several phone calls later (grr), I go to pick my new glasses up, to discover that I can't actually see through the right lens.  "oh no, they're not wrong, they're what your prescription says, maybe it's just because it's different and you're not used to them".  Nope.

Turns out someone had typoed the prescription, so they were in fact the wrong lenses.  Which worries me, quite a lot.  Prescriptions are important things, and should not be wrong!  A doctor would get in a lot of shit for cocking one up, so I don't think that the opticians should try and shrug it off quite so much.

Anyway, one retest and another a week and a half later, I finally have some new glasses.  yay!  They'd have liked to make me wait another few days, but sod that.

Now I'm thinking that I will go somewhere else next time.  Some quick looking on the internet suggests that I can get my contact lenses much much cheaper as well, which would be nice!

tags: eyesight grr