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I'd forgotten how maddening it is getting new glasses adjusted. I wish the shop-workers would believe me when I say "I know the arms are wonky horizontally, that's because my ears are a bit wonky; they look fine on my face. All that needs adjusting are the pads". Nooooo, she know better, twists the arms, and then I point out that the specs are now freakishly crooked and could she change them back please and get on with the aspect that is actually causing a problem?
(This is particularly odd because my face is no more asymmetrical than anybody else's, AFAICT; surely they deal with this all the time?)
So now they look OK, they aren't sliding down my nose every five seconds, but the left arm is giving me a headache so I'll have to have that one bent outwards and the right one bent inwards and doubtless that'll cause something else go to go out of whack... what with the faff and the price tag, it's no wonder I leave it too long between new pairs.

All this for something that looks virtually identical to the old pair. I do quite like the trendy narrrow kind with the thick arms, but the lenses are only about half an inch high- that'd drive me nuts, to always be aware of the edge of my field of vision.

(How expensive is it these days for the kind of contact lenses that can cope with astigmatism, I wonder.)