Thursday, December 29, 2005
Eyes good enough to drive
I went to the motor registry today and got my drivers licence updated so that it doesn't say I need glasses.
I was a little worried, but when they turned on the eye chart I could read it pretty easily. The required line was a little blurry, but clear enough to be confident about what I was reading.
I had expected the registry to put a little sticker on the back of my licence with the updated information, as they do with address changes. However, they ended up producing a whole new licence, at no charge. Quite ironic, since it was too long ago that I had to get a new licence since my old one was disintegrating after 4.5 of its 5-year validity period. They charged me for that privilege.
I've always been sceptical about that driving condition, anyway. It says that spectacles or contacts must be worn, but how do they really know if you're wearing contacts, aside from an autopsy check if you crash & burn. I could even have been wearing contacts during my eye test and they wouldn't have known.
It reminds me of an episode of a Columbo episode where a man was killed, then put in the drivers seat of a car. The killer looked at the man's licence and saw that it specified that glasses must be worn, so he put the victim's glasses on their face. Columbo later discovered that the victim had been wearing contacts AND glasses, so knew that foul-play was involved!
-- Fabbo
Tags: LASIK Laser Eye Surgery
I was a little worried, but when they turned on the eye chart I could read it pretty easily. The required line was a little blurry, but clear enough to be confident about what I was reading.I had expected the registry to put a little sticker on the back of my licence with the updated information, as they do with address changes. However, they ended up producing a whole new licence, at no charge. Quite ironic, since it was too long ago that I had to get a new licence since my old one was disintegrating after 4.5 of its 5-year validity period. They charged me for that privilege.
I've always been sceptical about that driving condition, anyway. It says that spectacles or contacts must be worn, but how do they really know if you're wearing contacts, aside from an autopsy check if you crash & burn. I could even have been wearing contacts during my eye test and they wouldn't have known.
It reminds me of an episode of a Columbo episode where a man was killed, then put in the drivers seat of a car. The killer looked at the man's licence and saw that it specified that glasses must be worn, so he put the victim's glasses on their face. Columbo later discovered that the victim had been wearing contacts AND glasses, so knew that foul-play was involved!
-- Fabbo
Tags: LASIK Laser Eye Surgery
# posted by Fabbo @ 4:35 pm 
