Today, we had a hell of a time trying to get my Love his glasses. First we changed the appointment from the Lenscrafters to the doctor in the Super Wal-Mart (it was $44 instead of $59), then we went back to the Lenscrafters to get them made up. He picks out what he wants and the lady sits us down to enter the info. He gives her his insurance and she says it allows for 80% of the total cost. (I can see the screen from where I'm sitting) So, then she starts entering all the info and gets a screen that says "Authorization Required." Well, it's Saturday afternoon at like 3:30pm; no one's around to authorize something like that. She's poking around at the options and there's a place for the authorization number and below it, a box to check for no authorization and a drop-down menu with options why. There's a ton. Everything from "busy" to "no answer" to the exact perfect fit of "After Hours." So, instead of choosing that, she instead suddenly says, "Oh, I don't think we carry that anymore" and calls over some other lady. She tells the lady the insurance provider and says, "We don't carry it anymore do we?" - totally leading her to agree. The other woman (who was supposedly the manager, but was all of 17) says, yeah, no, we don't. The first woman then changes her mind again and says that we'd need to pay it all up-front and then get them to reimburse us back. Uh, yeah, no way. We were looking at like $350 for frames and lenses. Big no. I should note that a guy he works with got his glasses like two months ago from Lenscrafters and most certainly did not have to file a claim to get his money back. They were total assholes and utterly unhelpful.
So we leave. His eyes are dilated and he had planned to get them today. We go to the Pearl Vision in the mall and they don't take it at all. By this point, it's like 4pm and there's slim hope of getting it done today. He remembers the place that his other friend from work got glasses like two weeks ago and we head over there. It's a Visionworks.
They have a lot of glasses (though they didn't have the pair that he originally picked out from Lenscrafters), but all the designer ones are in the case. You have to put your name on the list and wait to be helped, so we do and finally, we go through them and he finds a pair of Ralph Lauren ones he really likes. (They're sharp.) So we go through all the paperwork and turns out that they'll give 30% off the complete glasses with his insurance, but their $19.99 discount card will give 50% off so we end up going with that instead. Only problem is that the glasses won't be ready until Monday after 3pm, but at that point, we just wanted to get it over and done with.
I never ended up going to meet up with our friend this morning because he wanted to meet at the art store (45 minutes away) AT 9am. Yeah, no way. It's a cool art store, but it's not worth getting up that damned early. He and my Love stopped off for breakfast after and I slept in. He brought me home some really uber cool Egyptian rubber stamps though. Awesome. Comes in a wood box, inkpad and 29 stamps (both the letters and symbols). Too cool.
Tomorrow, we still have to go to Cracker Barrel - which will be a nightmare full of people to be sure - to meet his folks for Father's Day breakfast at 10am. Ugh. Another 45 minutes away. Can't people ever do things at a decent hour?
Beyond that....nada much. Hungry, but my stomach is hurting really fucking bad. Started hurting yesterday after I ate dinner. Went to bed whimpering and woke up with it just as miserable. Started to feel better, but then I was hungry, so I ate a pretzel at the mall and it immediately hated me again. So, for the moment, I just can't eat. *ugh* Perhaps I'll make myself a bowl of Chicken Noodle Soup. It is the magic cure-all. Hopefully, I won't get doubled over with pain from it. *crosses fingers*
Out for now.
~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream
at 6/14/2003 10:41:33 PM ~
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