Today I took my 9 year old daughter in to have an eye exam and get new glasses. This is only the third time in her short life that she's been to see an optometrist, but she's easy-going and takes everything in stride and treats it like an adventure.
When she was called in for the actual exam, my husband and I followed to sit in the back of the room. She climbed up into the big chair and the optometrist slid the eye contraption up to her face. He then proceeded to carry on a conversation with her about how she is probably chasing all the ugly boys around at recess because her prescription is so old... he was going to make sure that she could see well enough to chase all the good looking ones from now on. She blushed and giggled and said she was much too young to be chasing boys. My husband and I exchanged glances and smiled.
The exam proceeded, with the doc asking "Better, or Worse?" and "Number One or Number Two?" until a satisfactory prescription was found. He then asked our girl to read the bottom line of the chart.
She paused for a moment (long enough for me to think that she wasn't seeing clearly through the contraption) and then said, "Apneo." Clearly taken off guard, the optometrist was speechless. I wanted to clarify to my daughter that he meant to read out the LETTERS on the chart, not make a word out of them, but I was laughing so hard I couldn't form the words to speak. I looked over at my husband who had tears streaming down his cheeks from laughing as hard as I was. I admire the doc for not breaking composure and keeling over in giggles as well... ever the professional he asked her again to say the line, but just the letters this time.
My husband and I continued to giggle silently for the next 5 minutes - just long enough for the doc and our girl to finish up, at which time we were escorted out of the exam room, straight faced and semi-serious....
It was definitely a blogging moment!!
1 comment:
I laughed a lot lot lot at this. Still laughing this morning.
*sigh*
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