All About Mallory's Glasses (Day 3598 - 10/1/19)

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Today, Stephen and Mallory are currently in Costco's parking lot as a result of the whole situation with Mal's glasses. Stephen hands the vlog camera over to Mal so she can recap the whole situation while he eats his Costco hot dog.

Mal explains that this glasses situation has been going on for the past 2 months. After her appointment with the eye doctor, she was told to wear her glasses more. Therefore, she decided to get new glasses this year because her old glasses were from 2008. When she got her new glasses, she had tried them on at Costco. But, she couldn't tell how good they were because she was wearing contacts. Once she got back home, she took her contacts out and tried them on again. Mal said that her field of view looked like a fish bowl. Afterwards, there was a whole back and forth situation between Costco and her optometrist where they were passing the blame on whose fault it was that there was a problem with Mal's glasses. Mal's optometrist eventually figured out that the base curvature of the glasses was incorrect. Costco didn't measure the base curvature of Mal's old glasses and just went with a base curvature of 2. The optometrist told Mal that the base curvature of her glasses was a 4. Mal went to Costco with that information and they remade the glasses with the correct base curvature.

Last week, Mal picked up the remade glasses and they told her to give it 2 days to adjust to the new glasses. Mal says that she only wore them for an hour, but she felt like vomiting. She also walked into Publix and almost fell over, so she stopped wearing them after that. Today, she called her optometrist and told them that she was feeling nauseous while wearing them even though the base curvature is correct. The optometrist told her to come in so that they could figure out what the problem is with her glasses. It turns out that Costco remade the glasses with a base curvature of 3 and not 4. At this point, Mal was really mad and went back to Costco to tell them about the issue with her new glasses. She asked them if they could just give her a refund at this point. But, she was a bit worried if they would give her a refund since glasses are custom-made. The lady at Costco agreed that it was better to refund them at this point. So, Mal was able to a get a refund with no issues. Now, Mal is going to get her glasses at a different place.

Stephen says that it's good that Costco has such a great return policy that they were willing to refund Mal's glasses. Mal says that she has some other options on where she can get new glasses. One of her options is to get her glasses from her optometrist, but that will be her last resort. Stephen says that the reason they chose Costco in the first place was that it's cheap. Mal says that her contacts and glasses were pretty cheap. He says that it's good that it was cheap, but having to have glasses remade twice is not good. Mal comments that her contacts have been fine. However, unlike with glasses, they just grab a box with your prescription. Mal also says that she knows people who have had a good experience with getting glasses from Costco, but it was a frustrating experience for her. Stephen tells her that at least the whole situation with Costco is over. Mal says that she still needs to get new glasses since she can't see with her old ones. She also says that the biggest issue with the situation with Costco was that the optometrist office and Costco were far apart.

Back at home, Stephen thanks his Patreon producers since it's the beginning of the month. Then, he talks about how they worked a little after returning home. However, right around 7 PM when they were preparing dinner, Stephen starting feeling terrible. He felt so terrible that he needed to lay down. So, their dinner ended up getting postponed until later. Stephen ended up sleeping for 5 hours, so he woke up when it was almost midnight. When he woke up, he still felt bad but not as bad. Mal speculated that maybe he was dehydrated, so he drank so water which made him feel a bit better. But, he felt shaky because he hasn't eaten anything.

Stephen says that yesterday he was talking about how tacos have saved the day multiple times for him and today they saved the day. They ended up having tacos for dinner at midnight. Stephen says that they should've been in bed now, but they are eating dinner. He says that it's fault that their schedule got messed up. Stephen is still not sure why he suddenly started feeling sick. He says that it might have been dehydration since he's had it before in the past from not drinking enough water. Stephen says that he will try and drink more water. He says that he feels better now, but he's hungry. Then, he talks about how he's not sure what he's going to do since he might not be able to go straight to sleep after sleeping for 5 hours. He says that he could either go to bed and end up waking up early tomorrow or he can stay up and work until he feels sleepy. Stephen says that he guesses everyone will find out what he chooses to do in tomorrow's vlog.