How hard could it be?

Eyeglasses take 3...no 4. Last summer Tristan got eyeglasses. They broke after a few months...all by themselves. He got new frames, under warranty. The puppy ate the frames and the lenses. We PAID FOR new frames and lenses. Last night Tristan forgot to put his glasses away before bed and they got slept on and stepped on and probably bitten by the puppy. They were on the floor by his bed when he woke up...broken again.

So now, here we are with a VISION INSURANCE PLAN surely we are prepared for anything now.

Tristan's regular eye doctor it turns out doesn't accept the vision plan. On the back of the flimsy paper card they sent there are logos for places like Walmart, Sears, JC Penney and Target. We head off optimistically for the promised once yearly FREE pair of eyeglasses.

Our nearest Walmart, 45 minutes away, is not part of the plan because they are independently owned not part of the chain. They still wanted to sell us something and were relatively helpful but by gosh we want to get the promised FREE pair from the VISION PLAN which is not free, it's $20 a month.


Sears looked promising. They helped Tristan choose a frame (a lengthy process), wrote up the order even though the VISION PLAN's system was down and they couldn't verify that Tristan is insured. Typed the prescription into their system then...nothing. They can not do Tristan's prescription since it is a high number prescription (blind as a bat in daytime kinda prescription).


So we move on to JCPenney. "Our location doesn't have vision facilities" we are told.


Target..."this location has no optical shop" we are told.

Then we gave up and went home. I do have a pair on order from Zenni Optical (and plan to get a second pair from them too, great prices) but I still hope to eventually find a way to get a FREE or cheap pair through the VISION PLAN which is now seeming like not such a good plan at all.