This week, I've been working on getting new glasses and contacts.  I've been rolling with the same prescription for the last two and a half years and two things things happened. First I didn't think that I was seeing as well as I used to and second, I am desperate for new contacts for this summer as I am currently wearing my last pair.

So I lined up a friend to come along with me to pick out new frames. Then another friend tagged along as well. All things considered, the whole process was pretty easy for the three of us.  We tried on lots of different frames and giggled, we picked out lens type based on the price and the country they are made in and I had an eye exam.  Pretty standard.

The eye exam was probably the funniest part for me.  You should know that even in the Sates I usually get nervous that something will happen during my eye exam and I wont get the right prescription. It's usually about the time that I am being asked "is this better?" switch "or is this better?" Um, I am not sure. So I make them switch back to the first one and this process continues for the remainder of the exam. And I begin to worry, what if I make a bad choice? What if I end up with a bad prescription? <!--more-->

Anyhow, I knew that I'd have to answer the standard questions: what's on row one? row two? But I also knew that the alphabet was in Cyrillic so it's just an extra challenge. I've never taken an eye exam in Cyrillic before. Well, after being stripped of my glasses and sitting for a bit with none on, it was time for the eye test.  First row. I think to myself okay. I can see these.  I real off some answers. I few I can't make out. I say I don't know.

Lady looks at me. In Bulgarian she says: you don't know or you can't see? Me: I can't see. She switches the prescription. Again. Read row one. This is good because I can even make out row two. I read row one again. She's still not happy with my answers which are going something like this: Б, ug I don't know, В, I don't know and  О.  Switches the prescription again.

At some point in all of this, she says Б or 5? And that's when I realize that all of the letters in row one are actually numbers.<em> Oh</em>. That helps the situation a lot. Row one was actually something like 5, 2, 8, 4 and 0.  <em>Awesome.</em> To my credit the letter Б (b) the number 5 and the letter В (v) and the number 8 aren't <em>actually</em> that different looking.

There was a little piece of me that wanted to laugh and laugh and then there was the piece of me that was still worrying about getting the right prescription.  I think that I'll probably only be able to laugh when I have my new glasses in hand and can see clearly out of them.  So now all I've got to do is to wait for Monday.

As a post script, you should also be waiting, excitedly, for Monday/Tuesday because then I get to unveil my new glasses!