Just happened to me. First time ever.

Had an appointment this afternoon just to see if my prescription was still the same before I had my scratched lenses replaced. First thing they do is hand me a clipboard with forms to fill out, one of which was a consent to have my eyes dilated for a health exam. I explained to the receptionist that I was just there to have my prescription checked, and that I had an ophthalmologist that I see semi regularly for eye health exams. The receptionist explained that their optometrist insists on a full eye exam, and that requires dilation. I said I'd agree to it, but only from a newly opened bottle (I was always polite, calm, and friendly in demeanor). She said she'd speak to the doctor about that.

Doctor comes out, a Dr. Patel. She invites me in, and I can see she has a major attitude on. Her demeanor was quite annoyed. You could hear it in her voice and see it in her body language. I tried to counter this by being extra courteous and calm with her, but to no avail.

She continued to amp up the attitude, gave me a long angry lecture about why she needs to do a health exam that involves dilation. I assured her that would be fine, as long as she has a new, unopened, bottle of the drops. She said she did (and actually shows it to me, with the seal in place). I told her that there was no problem then, and I would agree to the exam. She then tells me she feels uncomfortable examining me, and would like me to leave and go elsewhere.

This was actually a relief, since the idea of having someone with an angry attitude working with me on something this important didn't particularly appeal to me. I informed the staff outside (very friendly folks), as I left, that I had been booted. They knew, as they overheard the whole thing, as the door was open.

Boy, it's sure gotten complicated getting an exam for new eyeglass lenses lately.

I just can’t see how that could happen

What were you wearing?

I see what you did did there.

It’s a clown world and customer service is a thing of the past. Since the Scamdemic businesses think THEY are doing us a favor by selling their goods and services to us…..oh and don’t forget that everyone expects a tip now too. 😂

My brother got to the point in his old construction and remodel business to politely decline any and ALL work from certain people and the “Patels” were at the top of the list. Did Dothead Patel have a jar in reception or a place on the forms where you were expected to tip her?

🤣

Fug the bitch

20/20 hindsight

…something see-thru and sexy.

Went to the eye doc the other day… they are still wearing paper masks and ask me if I had one. Nope, I was advised I needed one, told her those paper ones are junk and don’t work and they didn’t say a word. I never wore one the entire time… I could feel the holes from their eyes burning threw me… lol. [bleep] em.

It's on my Bucket List of things to do.

Wrong day of the month?

I’d go to the 711 and give her a proper scolding

Not following. Is there a site called 711 for rating local businesses?

Be sure to ask for a letter documenting the dismissal. She’s legally required to provide you an explanation. Make her do the work.

What’s the significance of a new, unopened bottle of dilation drops?

Well, off to Google reviews with her!

I'm having some adventures with my lens implant right now. My specialist at the teaching hospital who, theoretically, is in charge of my care is supposed to call my local doc back "in the next few days". I asked my local eye-smith if the dam eye has to fall out for it to be worth a phone call back..... I'm not amused.

You just didn't see eye to eye.

"Patel" owners of convenience stores

Old guys are TFF.



Old male version of a Karen. LOL

Been shown the door at the Toyota dealer service department. It's easy, all you gotta do is ask to see the parts they replaced. Anyone can do it. And my proudest moment in an otherwise humdrum existence....refused service and asked to leave DMV for protesting a late penalty after their office was closed during the early days of covid.

Our local “city” had a mandate back in 2020. Went to the eye doc there. Get to the exam room. He closes door. Takes off his mask. “This is a mask free area”. Then he goes on a rant about city government having too much power.

Those fiction writing courses from the Community College are paying off!

Excellent story!

As I’ve gotten older I just refuse to compromise. I don’t get mad. I don’t cuss anyone or anything. I just turn around and leave without a word.

I refuse to pay for something that isn’t exactly what I want. If I go into a convenience store and they don’t have the drink I want, I don’t reward them for it by buying something else. If the drive through person doesn’t listen and interrupts me while I am telling her exactly what I want, I drive off. If someone won’t do what I ask them to I simply leave. Stores that asked me to mask back during the pandemic, saw me immediately turn around and walk out.

In the end, it’s my money and practically no one has anything out there that I must have. So, I just don’t deal with people not intent upon providing customer service.

TRH, were you open carrying? Trigger some sentient left wingism?

Cross contamination risk. When the doctor puts drops in a patient's eyes, the reflex of the patient is to blink, which will cause small droplets to fly (Ever put your glasses on right after putting in eye drops? You will soon need to wipe your lenses from the droplets due to your blinking), which then contact the head of the dispenser. Whatever germs were in your eyes will now enter the eyes of the next patient. It's why you don't share your Visine bottle with anyone.

[smacks forehead][/smacks forehead]

Wow! Missed that completely.

I wish. Certainly didn't need to waste an afternoon.

Nope. I'm very discrete.

Your first clue should have been that the optometrist’s office was located in a run down motel on the bad side of town.

They own all the motels, too. The US Government gave them sweetheart deals on cheap business loans (not available to non-immigrant Americans), Guaranteed by the US Tax Payer, so they used them to buy all the motels up across the country, KFCs, too.

Patel means innkeeper.

Nah, they own the motels because they’ll have 500 Indians putting into a pot to buy them and then they’ll all have an interest. And frankly, Americans won’t work hard enough to make a schitty motel or convenience store go.

An Indian family will be there 24/7. Americans won’t do that. They’ll try to hire help and help at that level will steal you blind. Indians will do it and they eventually get rich but I’m not sure it’s worth it. You’re rich but you just spent your life in a [bleep] convenience store paying back four hundred cousins for their $725 contributions.

That's the first time an optometrist has ever asked me to have my eyes dilated for an exam. Is this something new? Anyone else get that request at an optometrist's office? Ophthalmologists do it routinely, but not optometrists, in my experience.

You have the option to send a registered letter to the FLA medical board. One letter probably would not result in much but still...

Should have been really confirmed when they asked him to take his pants off.

I’m so done with any and all Dr. Of any kind, I have just found new issues with my heart, so I’m seeing Cardiologist and Hematologist, these Dr. All come from the city to our local hospital so locals don’t have to make three hour drive one way, anyway I have made my mind up next meeting tomorrow when nurses hand me that mask upon coming in, I’m telling everyone in waiting room and staff , I’m paying you, I’m not wearing one, you keep yours on. I am done with all these rules, phone book full of every kind of Dental and Doctors. I hate to be hard , but the next eye roll I see above a mask, going to say something!!

LOL. This is true. They typically live in the motel room next to the front office, and only use family as maids and such.

Are happy endings now a part of an eye exam?

You know, if you smacked your forehead hard enough you might now have a big red dot on you forehead.
She may like you better now.

I know some Indians that make three or four million a year with a couple of convenience stores. And I mean, that’s profit. They live in nice houses and drive nice cars but they are always there at the stores. The stores have a Subway and their kids will be in there wearing the hair nets and messing around with those schitty clear plastic gloves making crappy sandwiches.

Indians I know don’t really have jobs unless they are doctors. Most of them are entrepreneurs and they always have some kind of hustle going.

My Optometrist is going to work for me next week installing 3500sft vinyl plank in a new house. He sold his practice in Philly PA and moved back here 4 yrs ago. He's semi-retired and pulls a gig at one of the local eye clinics once in a while, He just twisted off the last one and called me up to see if I had any work, he really doesn't even have to work but he gets bored, 55 yrs old. He put himself through college working for me and is a good flooring installer, it helped him pay for Optometrist school up in PA.

They are not stupid people. They have high IQs on average, are hard working in general, and many of them make excellent doctors.

And motels.

Don't forget motels.

Folks from India have a very condescending attitude towards white folks, whites are considered servant class in India. My late stepmother had a problem with that kind of attitude and was not shy about telling them about their attitude in no uncertain terms.

Interesting considering British influence and how many from India come here to work for us - IT wise or stay in India to set up call centers - work we consider to be pretty entry level - low skill.

When they’re born, the dot is scratched off with the edge of a coin. If it’s blue, they get a doctor’s office. If it’s green, a hotel. If it’s red, a convenience store.

Especially "uneducated" white folks. They pride themselves on the fact that India has more "honor students" than America has students. However, they tend to suck it up and get with the program when the "uneducated" white guy is the one hiring, firing, and paying the going rate for their skill set...


There is also an Indian "mafia" that will make hand shake loans for Indian entrepreneurs. Buy a hotel on a handshake at 10% flat rate interest. Work like a dog to pay off that hotel. Borrow money to buy a second hotel, put first up as collateral. And so on. Everything is cash. Off the books. No taxes. But, if you cross them, bad karma...

My eye doc is a shooter, a military aviation buff and knows muscle cars so we get along just fine. Sometimes one of his nurses has to come and get him moving on to the next patient. 😊

Was she hot?

Soooo...
I geuss the complimentary goodbye blow job was out of the question after all of that drama huh???
🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤣🤣🤣

No, but I would've been booted from that one if she insisted on doing a procedure that I told her I'd already had taken care of by an ophthalmologist.

I went to the dentist today with my EDC in plain sight...

Great folks... No one cares...

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Real Estate closing in 2 weeks... same stuff... we will see.

I agree with that. It's your money and you should get what you want.

Yepp... that makes 3 of us...

Nope - but after a 5 month wait to see my opthamologist (I've used him for 30+ years), his receptionist asked (on the way into his office) "You ARE vaccinated, right?"
I said "no" and she said "We can't see you, then."

Took me another 4 months to get into another office.
I'll never darken the door to Dr. Bell's office again. Nor will my wife (She was PIZZED!)
Me too.

Sounds to me like she did you a favor. Find a new Doctor. I had an old eye doctor that was trying to pump up his finances before he retired, and every time I went there, it was a new test. He had me convinced I had early stage Glaucoma. He retired, and a young Doctor took over his office, and the first thing he told me was, I didn't need any tests because my pressure was high normal and had not changed in years. It kind of made me PO'd, but at least all the testing was paid for, and my eyes have been checked enough for 3 people.

LOL.

You know why Indian brides have that dot on their forehead ???

The husband scratches it off on the night of the Honeymoon to see if he won a Motel or a 7/11. 😜

😆🤣😂

J went to mine months after the paper mask mandate was lifted and when I walked in they said I needed go be masked up. I hold the receptionist no thanks and please hand me my medical records so I could go elsewhere and see a doctor who had a lick of common sense. She kind of stuttered and I said I’d leave as soon as I got the records so she produced them and I walked out.

Bingo...

That makes 4 of us that agree on walking away from bullchit "Experts".

Lots of fiction being typed here.

“Records” are kept digitally now, not sure how anyone walked out with their records.

First clue was "DR." Patel!
Graduated from the University of Rangoon. (Go Brahma's!)
Worked with these arrogant a$$wipes!
NONE of them "work"! They are all "supervisors" and delegate their duties and responsibilities to their underlings!

Remember the big fiasco in Bhopal, India where the cyanide leak killed hundreds (if not thousands!) around a Union Carbide chemical plant?
I can guarantee that some supervisor told some underling to close a valve when the storage tank filled. That underling passed the responsibity to some other underling and on and on and on until the tank overflowed, killing butt loads of people.

"Sabu" (not his real name) came from Kerala. A state in India.
Cane down with the creeping crud and went to a doctor. Being Indian, went to an Indian doctor.
Sabu: "I'm running fever, have a cough, lethargic, nose is stopped up. I think I have the flu."
Indian Doctor: "I'm the doctor. You don't tell me what you have. I tell you."
Sabu also had his parents arrange his marriage with a girl from India. They had 3 daughters before they gave up on a boy. Every year, he would load them on a plane and send them to spend their summer with grandparents in India.
Fully Americanized, when the oldest turned 13, they refused to go to India for the summer! LOL!
No malls to hang out in.
No cell phones!
No friends!
Riding an elephant, bathing in the Ganges and living in a hut with no running water, A/C or electricity is only "fun" so long!

When others explained what was going on, he was incredulous!
"But they hurt my feelings because they don't want to go!"
"You raised those girls in the lap of luxury nine months of the year, then send them to a third world s#¡t hole for three months!"

My apologies!
I get on my soap box when I hear about how "great" these Indian fuggers are!
They hate us and think all Americans are stupid!

I'll drive across Texas before I go to an Indian doctor!
Call it "racist" if you wish. I call it being "informed"!
Those third world mf'ers will kill you!

losttrail60, do you want me to post a picture of the record file sitting on my desk or do you want to continue proving your mental limits by statements like above?

I think part of the problem is that every paraprofessional wishes to encroach into the space of the professional-proper in their general field. Nurses want to be doctors, so they push for nurse practitioner status, where they can function like them, for example. Same thing seems to have happened to optometrists.

Unsatisfied with merely being the folks who determine your eyeglass and contact lens prescriptions, they sought to encroach into the proper domain of the ophthalmologist, i.e., the medical doctors who concern themselves with eye health and treatment.

At first, this new aspect of their profession was introduced merely as an adjunct to the profession of determining eyeglass and contact lens prescriptions, but gradually grew till they started to feel they were in competition with the ophthalmic profession in terms of eye health. And now we can no longer just go to one to determine our eyeglass prescriptions without having to go through all this full eye exam nonsense, and if you tell them you already have an association with an ophthalmologist, and only wish to have your eyeglass prescription determined, they get all butt hurt.

Not necessarily.
Obama care dumped ca$h on doctors to digitize.
Not all did.






Was at my eye doctor for a checkup. High pressure, see if new drops helped.


Mentioned his Mastriano/Oz signs, said I wished he had
some Fetterman/Shapiro signs.😉😉

Blaine and I know each other, daughters played tennis together for years.
But we never got to know each other real well.

He paused, stuttered, tried to be nice, "well, you won't see them here."

Grinning I told him he didn't have to be so nice, we were on the same
side and I was just agitating. No masks, they went away as soon as
legally possible. Sooner in the exam room.



Dr is great, eyeglass folks in his office suck.
They give me a script and I get my glasses through work.
Daughter goes to an eyeglass place.

I didn't think that optometrist's were even allowed to dilate your eyes; thought that could only be done with an ophthalmologist.

Just change your schedule with your ophthalmologist & dispense with the idiots.

MM

First time in my life an optometrist has wished to dilate my eyes for an exam, let alone insisted. Hopefully it's not the latest trend.

We got killer banana Icee at our Seven-11

At Vanderbilt the opts do it EVERY time, they want to allow all available pupil width across the axis to check the vision

I’d think anyone NOT doing that is being half-ass, at least in my opinion of dealing with my daughter’s vision. We got to the eye clinic about every 6 weeks

But it is Vanderbilt afterall, not some Lenscrafters in Pissville, Idaho

Their explanation for it was that she insists on doing a full eye health exam, where viewing the back of the eye is important, i.e., having nothing at all to do with accurately determining my prescription.

Dr. Patel. Let me guess, you asked her if you had talked to her the night before on "Hot Indian Women?"

I’m pretty sure that’s beyond the scope of practice for optometrists here. Some have had their license suspended for it. They’re not opthalmologists.

Young male version of POS. LOL

Recreational colonoscopy.

Our clinic kept digital and had that on paper, dumbass.

TRH, I guess yall didn't see eye to eye.

Lense Crafter in the strip mall next to the Dollar Store in 1985?

LOL

As it should be.

Eyes Of Texas Clinic and Surgery Center, Odessa and Midland, Texas.

I will add that our optoms have about 3 extra letters behind their names. Sometimes commas and 3-6 more letters. Fellows, certs, etc



lol

My urologist at Mayo in Jacksonville is a PhD and an MBA too and an MD obviously.

Does booting an old man out that was calling a girl helping him a cuu..nt count?

Sat on his glasses, mangled em and when nose piece broke as she was attempting to straighten it he had a come apart right there at the desk. Started calling her a dumb cu..unt among other things.

I was second in line and listened to this for about 3 seconds. He was probably mid 70s.

Other girls were scrambling to get a manager when I stepped in and told him had he not been the dip schitt and sat on them he wouldn't be in this shape and to get his old ass outta there before he got his old azz whipped right there.

His wife had dropped him at the door and went to park, she was walking in as he was headed towards the door still bitsching.

Girl had already headed to back crying. Finally came up to fit me for my contacts and was thanking me.

Supposed to respect our elders is what I was always taught but some of our "elders" never had a parent whip their azz and reach em not to throw baby fits.

What gripes the hell out of me is after I get the exam done, they want $30 to write the prescription. WTF? I need two prescriptions so that's $60 above and beyond the $40 co-pay. Double WTF???
PJ