I went into a Walmart Vision Center
last night to have the optometrist measure my eyes for new glasses.
I normally don't like to patronize Walmart because of their treatment
of workers but the price for an eye test there is less than half of
what it is anywhere else.
Anyway, I was very heartened, pleased,
restored to find that the optometrist, an old guy like myself, was
not only competent but understanding. He spoke this in less than
three seconds but it restored my soul.
I get in the chair, he looks at my
paperwork, and says simply, abruptly, “You don't look like a truck
driver. You don't speak like a truck driver.” I get that from time
to time and it's true. I look more like an academic.
So I say to this guy, “I picked up
the trade as an avocation so that I could speak truth in my other
world.” He got it immediately. “Been there.”
This is a true story and
it happened last night at the Walmart Vision Center in Moraine, Ohio.
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