Dissapointed
21 August 2008 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dime_novel_heroMy glasses were ready today. I think the look pretty good and the optometrist did a good job of bending the oval frames into the round shape. Unfortunately, the conversation left a bad taste in my mouth.
Optometrist: "You know, they are discontinuing that model of frames."
Pike: "The story of my life. I can never just walk into a store and by the fashion of clothes or model of whatever that I want. It's always been discontinued or has fallen out of fashion. I can't even find the shoes that I want. Tennis shoes, leather, all black. They always have stripes or something."
He showed me his shoes.
Optometrist: "I got these from a guy down the street. He special ordered them from Italy. The square toes in black are difficult to find. They go with tuxes in weddings a lot but in blue or orange."
Pike: "Ugh. Those are awful colors. Especially for a wedding. It's more like something you'd see on. . . an. . . a. . . "
Optometrist: "African-American?"
Pike: ". . . er. . . I was going to say at a 70s high school prom."
It was that sickening moment when I realized that he had said something equally racist when I was in the store shopping for frames the first time. I've blocked the specifics out of my mind but I was certainly turned off by the easy bigotry. The assumption that because I was white also, it was OK for him to be that way.
I guess I haven't found a new optometrist to give my business to.
Optometrist: "You know, they are discontinuing that model of frames."
Pike: "The story of my life. I can never just walk into a store and by the fashion of clothes or model of whatever that I want. It's always been discontinued or has fallen out of fashion. I can't even find the shoes that I want. Tennis shoes, leather, all black. They always have stripes or something."
He showed me his shoes.
Optometrist: "I got these from a guy down the street. He special ordered them from Italy. The square toes in black are difficult to find. They go with tuxes in weddings a lot but in blue or orange."
Pike: "Ugh. Those are awful colors. Especially for a wedding. It's more like something you'd see on. . . an. . . a. . . "
Optometrist: "African-American?"
Pike: ". . . er. . . I was going to say at a 70s high school prom."
It was that sickening moment when I realized that he had said something equally racist when I was in the store shopping for frames the first time. I've blocked the specifics out of my mind but I was certainly turned off by the easy bigotry. The assumption that because I was white also, it was OK for him to be that way.
I guess I haven't found a new optometrist to give my business to.
