Spectacles Wallet and Watch

The nice thing about my parents being retired is that we get to tag along on their various errands through the week. Which means free lunch. .. But it also means that a task that used to take them an hour or so can turn into an all-day event.  As was the case with my father picking out his new glasses.  On my days off I like to get things accomplished (makes sense) but when I have nothing that needs to be returned or purchased I sometimes feel a little lost. So when my parents asked if I wanted to pick out some eye glasses for my dad I was all about it and so were the girls. Timmy works afternoons and evenings so he was not a participant in this adventure (which who could blame him) but boy did he hear the story: which goes like this. The first location was eyemart where we thought it would take like 15 minutes but did not realize that you have to get in line to then get inline… so we put his name down and in the meantime tried on a few spectacles.  After going through and finding some that he liked (40 minutes later by the way) we talked to the girl working who informed us that my father’s insurance would not cover them and the two pairs of glasses would run him like 300 bucks. Boooooo. SO it was at this point that we decided to try lens crafters. Similar situation at this location because they make you pick everything out and give you the bajillion options available and then hit you with a total… seven hundred and fifty smackers… no thanks. Last stop was at Shopko (a local store) and we got in line. And waited. And waited. And waited. (We are three hours into this folks).  Same thing 7 big ones. Barf. SO after mulling it over with my mother for a while they decide to go with the original store (which for any other person would be a no brainer but my incredibly through father always likes to weigh his options). Lucky for the girls and I they did that decision making at home because to listen to the two of them banter back and forth (entertained at times to say the least) has become a bit of a chore. So no thanks to that… but the rest of it… A-Ok in my book.