Vision Express - What Do I Want To See?

27 August 2008 by Silky

Here’s an older Vision Express advert (but still from their “What Do I Want To See” series):

What really cheeses (that’s right, I said “cheeses”) me off about these adverts is the implication that the opinions of people who *uses their eyes as part of their job* (you know, a photographer, a pilot, a peeping Tom, that sort of thing) are in some more important than those of us Stevie Wonder types groping our way through the blackness that is lives.

“I’d like to see an eye exam that can test my eyes 100 different ways” babbles Mark Whitney.

Why 100?

Why not 1,000,000 ways. Surely that eye exam has got to be a thousand times betterer than your pathetic little 100 ways.

What relevance has that number actually got to the quality your vision?

Absolutely none, that’s what.

Anyways, now I’m in the mood for ranting, here’s what I’d like from an eye exam:

I’d like to see an eye test where the optician doesn’t snort on my face when he’s stood inappropriately close to my face shining a light in my eyes.
I’d like to see an eye test where the optician hasn’t drunk a bath tub full of coffee before standing in appropriately close to my face.
I’d like to see an eye test that doesn’t last 30 minutes on top of the 15 that I’ve been waiting even though I’ve made an appointment for a weekday.

So, Vision Express when do I get to do my advert?

Anyone else want to share what they’d like to see from an eye test?

Just How Bad is this Ad?

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6Responses:

qwidge

Said on the 28 August 2008

How come they have 100 different ways to test my eyes but they only ever use the three.

1. Can you read these letters and recite them like a retarded police cadet who doesn’t know the call signs for each letter. “Umm V?” “B?” “No, V! Like for Volvo?”

2. Which one’s clearest, “red or green?” Here’s a sneaky hint to all optician’s clients THEY’RE BOTH THE SAME - THEY ALWAYS ARE! It’s a trap!!!

3. “Number one? Or Number two? And how about now? Number one? or number two?”
IT’S A TRAP!
Gordon

Said on the 28 August 2008

I’d like to see an eye test that isn’t invented solely for the purpose of selling you glasses, whether you need them or not (or changing your prescription if you were unlucky enough to visit them before and needed glasses - surprise, surprise, you need a different prescription this time) Yes of course they take credit cards… and debentures on your primary residence.

It’s like going to the garage “you wouldn’t want to drive a car with defective brakes would you sir?…..” is nearly the same as “you wouldn’t want to go around with defective eyesight would you sir?….” Neither are real problems, but how do you know? You have to take the word of a “professional” and blithely hand over large sums of cash to correct what may or may not really be a problem.

However, I’m guessing there might be reasonable cause for accepting their findings if you keep crashing your car because you can’t stop or see where you were going……
inssey

Said on the 3 September 2008

Remember when spectacles came in shapes other than rectangular and were chosen not just on the basis of your prescription but on whether they ACTUALLY SUITED YOU. As opposed to making you look like the bastard child of Fabio Capello and Gok Wan(yes girls this includes you). All opticians ads share this ability. Still in 20 years John Lennon frames will be back in and we’ll all look like Tojo.
Mikey P

Said on the 4 September 2008

Any chance they can add some colour to their clinics? They all look like some sort of sterilization centre from a 70’s sci-fi movie. So much white everywhere…….
Kloschzin Karyzdzyoy

Said on the 14 September 2008

Your father is a faggot.
Silky

Said on the 14 September 2008

Mum?