The optician is good. The people who speak with you about your glasses frames are very imperfect, to say the least. First, they sold me last summer a frame that could not accommodate progressives, although that is what the doctor ordered and that is certainly what I paid for, at added expense. Then the frame they sold me, which has plastic fishline under the glasses, broke the first day I was in Munich on a Visiting Professorship, so I had to resort to the previous pair of glasses for over three months. Upon my return to Berkeley, in mid-January, I asked them to fix the glasses. They "repaired" them and the repair lasted just about a week. When I took them back soon afterwards, when I was scheduled for a regular eye exam, they said the glasses (less than a year old, by several months) were "too old" to be repaired. I will not return to the glasses frame shop ever again.
