Would You Order Eyeglasses off the Net?

I WOULD!   Awhile back I did a post on GlassesUSA.com where my daughter got glasses.  I was extremely skeptical because let’s face it… ordering glasses over the internet?  Really?  Isn’t that risky?  Apparently not because they were really nice and great quality.

Well, it was shortly before she had to go off to college and realized she needed a new supply of contacts.  I called her eye doctor locally and was informed she needed a new script.  Which of course meant a new exam.  There was no way that we’d get in before she left.  Ughhhh.  So we found a new eye doctor who took her in a flash.  Not only did her glasses prescription change dramatically, so did her contacts.

When we were shopping in that store to buy eyeglasses I was shocked at the price.  (and, they were cheaper than the former place we went to!)  We were looking at the pairs they had that were complete pairs for $99.  and wow, what a bunch of crap.  That price didn’t include the scratch coating or the better lens (these had pop bottle lenses!)

The girl there took her old glasses from GlassesUSA and looked at them.  She said, “These are really good glasses”.  I said, “really?  we ordered these eye glasses online for like $70!”  She said, “You won’t get anything like these here — not for that price.  Look, see it has the better glass, a great frame, the scratch resistance and {something for night time driving I can’t remember the term}”.

Anyhow, we ended up with a few hundred dollars in new glasses because we needed them pronto and had to do the new exam and everything quickly before she left for college.  But after that dent in my wallet, I’ll be only buy glasses online.   I am just stunned that they were such great glasses, that even a brick and mortar optometrist would say they were.

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Where does a Saint Bernard sleep?

Where does a St. Bernard  sleep?

Anywhere it damn well pleases.

Brooklyn is 11 1/2 yrs old now.  She has trouble getting up the basement stairs, so Shane cut up my good rug (yes, I had to stress that – good rug) to make a pathway up the stairs so she can grip something.

And yes, that IS duct tape.   That’s how we fix everything around here.

 

Just when you think your kid is safe.

I knew when I sent my daughter off to college she’d be having a ton of new experiences… some which I would approve of, and some not.  But she called me the other day with the news that the night before… a man was arrested on the 8th floor of her residence hall.  I say “man” because he wasn’t a student.  He was LIVING on the top floor of the residence hall.  IN a single room.  I’m told he’s been living there a week or so.

WTH?  Are you kidding me right now?

After she called me I went online and found only one article about it.  Nothing on the local news for that town, nothing in the local newspaper.  Only one piddly article in the University paper.  In fact, as another parent noted, there is more information provided by an anonymous commenter than in the article itself.    It SEEMS that the dude is 25  (yes that’s TWENTY FIVE years old!) Illegally posing as a student and illegally living in the residence hall packed with FRESHMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SAY WHAT?  No letter to parents… No letter to the students in the hall with details of anything.  WOW.

Apparently this guy had been mooching food from paying students and living for free among 18 year old kids.  Ughhh.  When I think of all the bad things that could have happened it makes me FURIOUS!  I know when we visited there the security was tight.  You couldn’t get in or out without a signing in.  In fact, all these colleges make such a major point to play up how secure their buildings are.   Yet this nut was able to not only get into the building but frickin LIVE IN IT?  The whole thing is just crazy!

*Update!  I talked to the school and it turns out the kids in the hall “felt sorry” for this guy and LET HIM IN, KNOWING he wasn’t a student!  OMG.  Thankfully the University turned this into a great teaching moment because it certainly could have ended up much worse.

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