It was actually 220 :/

Thanks! I have sent an email and will update if they reply. I will not hold my breath though.

Thank you kindly for the reply. This makes some sense. It is just so scummy feeling because the information is there, it is about me, but I can’t use it to shop around. I probably just had a great opto who went above and beyond back in the day and that coloured my expectations.

Awesome. I have the PD measurement from that picture, along with other measurements.

I assume this covers everything the lens folks will need.

Since I was able to get the measurements from the app he was using I think this is going to be my course of action. I will ask for my script from the optometrist and then take the pupil measurements from that picture and send them to someone who will make the lenses for my sunglasses.

Thanks! Yeah I won’t be going back there. They were so pushy about only using their brands, and denying me access to my own info.

I was billed for the eye exam separately from the glasses. $220 CAD.

What a scummy way to act. I paid 220 dollars for the exam, I think I should ‘own’ the output. Especially since it is literally my personal health data.

I’ll poke around to see if I have any recourse.

Thanks! I had thought the same.

It all felt so forced and scummy. I am going to go back and demand all the information (politely)

I just realized this might not be the right community. Please feel free to remove the post if it doesn’t fit the ‘thought-provoking’ tag.

It is nothing fancy.

I have an old SodaStream that I picked up second hand for 20 bucks, and an adapter from amazon that lets me hook up to a bar/resto sized CO2 container.

Add in a 5 foot extension line from a bar setup so that it can live up on a shelf and we are done.

The savings are remarkable. Instead of 20 bucks for 60litres of water, which I go through in about ten days, I get about 5 months of super bubbly water for 45 bucks total.

Orange Vanilla by polar springs.

Or anything in my DIY sodastream setup ;)

In which way am I complaining? I am explaining why calling a valid solution a bandaid might be construed as belittling their very real knowledge of this process. And how that is a regular pattern in a lot technical fields.

And don’t give me this shit about ‘I’m not the person you were talking to’ This is an open forum not a direct/private message.

You can’t expect people who are knowledgeable about this stuff to just forever accept that someone asks for advice, gets told the solution, and then ignores/belittles the person with knowledge.

This is our daily life experience. We get hired to be experts, and get told by non-experts that our solutions are not tenable every single day. Only for that solution to eventually be accepted when the user in question figures out their idea was not useful and the expert was correct.

We have to put up with it at work, we are not obliged to accept it here.

I should mention that we also really enjoyed the back streets and small neighbourhoods. They made up for a lot of the disappointment.

I wanted to visit Paris my whole life. Pere Lachaise cemetery, the Eiffel tower, the museums, the food.

When I got there the cemetery was filled with lying grifters trying to sell bullshit stories about the people interred there. The tower was full of pick pockets and scumbags ripping off tourists for thread bracelets. The museums were filled with influencers blocking access to a lot of the displays with their stupid duck lips and tag-along ‘photographers’ with their iphones .

The only thing that lived up to the dream was the food. Oh my the food…

Oh… And the experience of seeing a woman shitting in the seine in broad daylight. That was kind of exciting too…

I will carry this sacred knowledge for the remainder of my fleeting time on this rock.

And giggle.

You mean MC has something other than peaceful mode? Weird. I should try that one day.

Ducati.ms will be your best friend.

Yeah, I’m a little bit too much into motorcycle forums…

And motorcycles!

Shameless plug for the triumph bobber forum and triumphrat if you are into those bikes.