Oh feck - entitlement expires

Just had a letter from the DVLA. Truck entitlement expires on 24 July
unless I renew my medical.

WC, the eyesight test you did in TW: is it the old-fashioned
read-the-chart thing still, or have they got the new random image
generator kit?

I can wing the one but not the other.....

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, The Older Gentleman amazed us all with this pearl
of wisdom:

You're bloody lucky I saw this post[1]. There I was, trying to get some
shuteye and it just seems sick to go to bed when the sun's still shining
even though I have to be up at the crack of dawn (fnarrr).

OK. When I did the eyetest in TW, it was the standard "stand a certain
distance from the chart with an eyepatch" job.


[1] Realises the irony in this statement.

 

I'm pissed off, I can no longer do the bottom line with my left eye,
wearing glasses.

But I think it's mostly a symptom of a lazy eye.

 

Did I mention that my eyes have mysteriously improved since I last had
a test? Seems that neither of them is short-sighted any more, so I've
binned the specs and replaced the Rx lenses in my Oakleys with the
pristine originals. Which is nice.

Still got a bit of astygmatism, though, which made the bottom line a
bit fuzzy with one eye, but was fine with them both together.
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\`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3
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That happens to me every 5 or so years.. with luck I'll not need glasses
as I hit 50.

Astigmatism is a PITA.

 

Brilliant. I've still got his chart memorised, so it should be a piece
of piss.

 

Old age and presbyopia. You'll be reading the newspaper at arm's length.

 

The Older Gentleman scribbled:

Don't they have about 4 or 5 charts, all different?

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, The Older Gentleman amazed us all with this pearl
of wisdom:

Heh

 

More than that. I had the first three or four lines of all of them
memorised last time (I thought), and then this doctor had one I'd never
seen before.

Had to have a shufti when I thought he wasn't looking and do some quick
memorising.

AOEHLANTCO

I doubt he's changed it since.

 

mines only .75 in one eye, .25 in the other, so not really noticeable
in most situations. Not changed for about ten years either.
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..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom)
\`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3
`\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2
`\|/`
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Well yes, close vision becomes more of an issue as one ages, but isn't
that usually a result of muscle function, rather than a change in
eyeball shape such as would be required for the correction that's
occurred?

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..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom)
\`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3
`\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2
`\|/`
`

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

I hope you've got all the road junctions I use memorised too.

 

Will you be memorising all the roads and traffic before you set off in you
truck?

 

AKA "short arm disease".

Phil