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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!ox-prg!Gordon.Riddell
- From: Gordon.Riddell@prg.oxford.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Spectacle(s)
- Message-ID: <9207311412.AA14170@merlin.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 14:12:41 GMT
- Sender: daemon@comlab.ox.ac.uk
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- I have a week to spend being visually challenged (getting the hang of this PC-
- jargon good style!) after breaking my glasses. Peeveworthy in its own right
- that situation, especially as I stepped on my glasses as they lay on the
- floor in front of me as I sat on the toilet having a crap (thought I still had
- them on and just got up and walked on them!).
-
- However, every time I go to my optician I get the same thing - my these
- glasses are good quality, they are made of rolled gold you know".
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- Every time I say "Yes, I got them free when I was a student." [UK students
- used to get benefits (welfare).]
-
- The opticians eyes glaze over and he sucks in and always fails to say
- something along the lines of "yes, you welfare junkies should be given crap
- glasses. Think of my profits." But I know what he's thinking.
-
- What he doesn't realise is that my taxes are now paying his salary in some
- small way. Am I really meant to look like a geek just because some shithead
- optician thinks good eyesight is a privilege not a right in our
- wonderful country. Pisses me off.
-
- That and the 30 pounds for the repair!
-
- Gordon
-