Seeing Clearly
U/YaBoiFast: “A parent enters with their child, who is typically in middle or elementary school…”Does anyone you know have glasses?” my dad asks the child as he ushers them into the examination room. The child responds, “Well, A, B, and C do.”The child addresses them by name and acts as though it’s a social custom. My dad employs a device known as a “phoropter” that contains many lenses.
He asks the standard question, “Which is clearer #1 or #2?” The youngster responds with the number that a 0.0x mag lens corresponds to. Dad pulls out some test frames that have 0.0x lenses. The youngster puts them on and begins to remark on how much more transparent everything is, while my dad is only muttering to the parent that “those literally have no effect on his vision.”
