What would you do? Pay or not pay ...

Kaz2904

Those specs are very similar to the ones my DD has got. She's on her second pair but will need more next time she goes back. The one thing I did put my foot down about was not letting her get bright pink ones. I mentioned Timmy Mallet (to much sniggering from shop staff) but she had no idea who I was talking about.
My main problem is not DD breaking her specs because she only wears them for classroom stuff, it is more getting her to remember them. She's better now because I never remember as I don't wear glasses.

Those of you who think that the NHS specs are so terrible, my DS (age 7) doesn't need specs and had me taking him along for another eye test because "I can't see Mum"....... when he had his eye test he was so obviously faking, I was mortified. I was very surprised when the optician mentioned that it happens all the time.

MarzipanFish

Percy1983 wrote: »

Actually they look like any other pair of glasses

Oh thank god... I actually felt really hurt for about 2.5 seconds when I read the first bit!! I worried that I'd been completely blind thinking they looked normal :rotfl:


Kaz that's funny about your DS! aww!

Percy1983

MarzipanFish wrote: »

Oh thank god... I actually felt really hurt for about 2.5 seconds when I read the first bit!! I worried that I'd been completely blind thinking they looked normal :rotfl:


Kaz that's funny about your DS! aww!

Found the problem. :rotfl:

Sorry again, another joke, sorry I upset you for 2.5 seconds. You look loverly and have nothing to worry about.

split_second

well thats me told then

to be honest i'll have to look for a better opticians next time anyway, the prices you lot paid for your glasses i have to pay for lens thinning alone (my prescription is all concentrated in one eye)

split_second

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I never think how people look on here and I'm always suprised when I see one Nice hair btw.

Are those really NHS glasses? I expected them to be an inch thick all around and brown. Oh, hang on, I've just been thinking about 1972.

1972? cheeky so and so i wasnt even born then :eek:

pigpen

split_second wrote: »

i'll find a pic later and we can ask who would make their kid wear nhs specs

I WOULD!!!

mine wear NHS ones...

from 2008 when these were the height of fashion..



the next pair..



and from last night...


This pair she has had 3 years.. she had new lenses put in when she last had her eyes checked.

ETA.. note the shoe box on the back of the sofa.. they are the truly hideous FREE (£120!!) boots my daughter wears... Those I wish we didn't have to get.. getting NHS frames is nothing compared to those!

Nimeth

split_second wrote: »

well thats me told then

to be honest i'll have to look for a better opticians next time anyway, the prices you lot paid for your glasses i have to pay for lens thinning alone (my prescription is all concentrated in one eye)

I'm like you split second, all my prescription is concentrated in one eye. Near perfect vision in the other, but if I close it, I can't read a d*mn thing!:rotfl:I've never paid more than £50 for my glasses and my last pair cost me £25.

@pigpen, your daughter is a lovely looking young lady!:)

To the OP, I say don't pay a penny. Waiting 3 months and then buying an expensive pair of glasses with the assumption that you'll cough up half is beyond cheeky. Can't be a good lesson for their kids either, teaching them that if they break something they can blame someone else and get money out of it.

mrcow

MarzipanFish wrote: »

I'll save you the time

Here's a picture of me in my NHS childrens' glasses. I do have a low prescription though. I got them when i was just under 19 and in full time education so they were free.


They're wonky but that's my fault. I only just noticed and I cba to take another

They look just like mine - except I paid £200 for mine!

split_second

Nimeth wrote: »

I'm like you split second, all my prescription is concentrated in one eye. Near perfect vision in the other, but if I close it, I can't read a d*mn thing!:rotfl:I've never paid more than £50 for my glasses and my last pair cost me £25.

@pigpen, your daughter is a lovely looking young lady!:)

To the OP, I say don't pay a penny. Waiting 3 months and then buying an expensive pair of glasses with the assumption that you'll cough up half is beyond cheeky. Can't be a good lesson for their kids either, teaching them that if they break something they can blame someone else and get money out of it.

if i close my good eye i cant even tell who is stood in front of me, i can see an outline of a person but i couldnt tell you who they were or anything about what they look like :eek:

Supernatural

I wouldn't pay. If there's any comeback from the other parents tell them you might have considered it if it wasn't for their older son being so confrontational and intimidating to your boy. With any luck he'll get told off not only for being a nasty bully but for costing them for replacing his brothers glasses!