One? Or Two?
- Margot Saites
- Dec 9, 2021
- 2 min read
Recently I went to get my eyes tested. The older I get, the more I have to rely on my reading glasses so I usually go every two years.

They start off by doing the normal health checks. Look at the light over here, a puff of air there, then wait for the Optometrist to come in and do the important stuff - seeing how much my eye sight has degenerated over the last two years.
After my test I wondered how many people are walking around with the wrong perspcription glasses?
My Optometrist showed me two pictures and asked me to see which one was clearer.
"One or two? One or two?" Awkward pause.
"Do you want to see it again? "
"Oh yes please."
"One or two?"

No, I still couldn't decide. But I wanted to make it seem like I knew what I was looking at so I picked a number.
"Two"
Then he gave me two more slides that looked equally the same.
"One or two? One or two? "
Now I start to get a nervous sweat. Is this a joke? Is he just showing me the same picture to try to catch me out? Maybe I have perfect eyes and don't need glasses at all and the whole thing was a con from the start!
"One or two? One or two? "
He's waiting for my response.
I chose "one" this time and tried not to interpret the look he gave me. There was a look right? Like he knows something that I'm never going to know. Something that he's going to laugh about with the rest of the staff at the end of the day?
Dear god please let this be over but there's more slides to come.
"One or two? One or two?"

At the end of it I'm told my eyes are healthy and although my vision is probably not as good as it used to be that's to be expected after a lifetime of living and looking at screens. All in all, it's not a bad result.
Phew.
And as it turns out, I'm pretty happy with the new perscription so even if he was playing games, it all worked out in end.
Or did it?

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