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    Late last week I "misplaced" my prescription glasses and iPhone at work. After spending 31/2 hours at the local Telstra Shop and the optometrist I'm out of pocket $1382.80, this is with the Medicare and Seniors discounts applied to the glasses. Another 2 hours on the phone to Apple to get access to my phone as I'd forgotten my password . I'd tried too many passwords, now I can't get into my Apple account for another 24 hours . No fun getting older.
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    Jeez GJ, last time I looked you only had one head with two eyes in it. Or are the others retractable? And if so, is it the eyes or heads that retract? Just so I know for next time.

    Imagine the dough you could make if you set up a drive through Optometry - Dental surgery. By the time they gas you up (Dental first) you'd say yes to anything, including a new phone and fries.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumpy John View Post
    Late last week I "misplaced" my prescription glasses and iPhone at work. After spending 31/2 hours at the local Telstra Shop and the optometrist I'm out of pocket $1382.80, this is with the Medicare and Seniors discounts applied to the glasses. Another 2 hours on the phone to Apple to get access to my phone as I'd forgotten my password . I'd tried too many passwords, now I can't get into my Apple account for another 24 hours . No fun getting older.
    If you misplaced them in the same place, why didn't you ring the phone and go listening for the ringing?
    If someone answers then ask where they picked the phone up so you could get the specs.

    Have you checked lost property???

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    I'm old, not stupid , already tried ringing the phone - flat battery.
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    There is a find my iPhone function but if the battery is flat .... Bummer
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    Do what I did - buy glasses from overseas. (or Big W if you want local)

    Sure, the frames may not come from Dulce & Gabana, or Dior, or Prada, or Versace, Ray-Ban or one of the other designer names licensed by near monopoly eyewear company the Luxottica Group S.p.A (who also own OPSM, Sunglass Hut, Budget Eyewear, Laubman & Pank, Bright Eyes... making them the largest eyewear retail group in Australia)

    But heck, when you are looking at $15 for single vision glasses, I can happily ditch the fancy name on the frame.

    Or go one better than fashion, and get some with function - Wiley X frames and lenses, which exceed high velocity impact safety standards AND military ballistic requirements, so they are ideal for the wookworker!

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    Did you claim on your insurance?
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    Nup, I didn't take out that option with my insurance .
    To grow old is inevitable.... To grow up is optional

    Confidence, the feeling you have before you fully understand the situation.

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    About a year ago, my wife lost her i-phone. We worked out that the last place she used itwas standing in the driveway next to her car talking to our son. Put itonthe bootlid when finished and 10 minutes later drove off. We figured it was gone for good.

    She rang telstra to tell them the phone was gone , they were able to tell her the last place that the phone was active -the corner of x and y streets about a kilometer from home. I went there and walked about 50 meters down the road -there it was in the gutter ,a bit smashed up and soaked. It no longer worked , but we did find it.
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    The last time I remember seeing my phone it was last Friday on the bench in the timber yard hut at the Bunnies where I work. I'm a creature of habit and I always put my phone on the charger on the kitchen benchtop. This Friday however, I was accosted by SWMBO who asked me to bring something in from the car. Long story short, when I was leaving for work on Saturday morning no phone. Mad rush around the house looking for it - no luck, not in the car either. As soon as I got to work I had a look in the most likely places - (and some of the not so obvious places) no luck there either. I figure someone who needed the phone more than me has got it. Good luck to them, it was an outdated iPhone G3 and it's been locked.
    My glasses are a different story. I definitely remember seeing them on the window ledge in the same hut before going to lunch (this is on Saturday) when I get back from lunch they're gone. We have a person in the timber yard that likes to play practical jokes and sometimes hides things. Maybe when he saw how p!$$ed off I was getting he was to scared to return them. Before you ask - I did ask him if he'd hidden them and he said that he hadn't. The other option is that as they were transition lenses and go quite dark, maybe someone thought that they'd scored a pair of titanium framed sunnies.

    There are, of course, other possibilities, either way it's an expensive lesson on not to leave valuables lying around.
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    A few years ago I did a similar thing. My glasses fell of the bedside cupboard and when I got out of bed I trod on them and broke them. Then I couldn't find my keys - not having glasses didn't help. I can't wear generic chemist glasses as I have bad astigmatism and a different prescription for each eye. The house keys were replaceable for a few$ but being a little concerned as to who might have taken the keys we replaced all the lock tumblers as well and I just ignored the car key as the car I had back then was a bit of a bomb anyway, but replacing the keys still wasn't cheap. The real sore point was replacing the Aboloy security keys work keys which cost an arm and a leg. When I finally got my glasses, guess what ? Yes I found my keys in the shed, hanging on a nail - a place I have never put them before.

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    I lost the house keys, walked up to the police station to report it, walked back, found them in front of the garage and rang the police station. I can still hear the laughter over the phone.
    What upsets me is wearing two bits of glass that cost more than my midi lathe.
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    Have to confess walking around the house once looking for my reading glasses when they were on my nose

    Re insurance, we pay around $800 p.a. for $135k contents, home and away ($100 excess; some limitations). Recently the kid managed to leak sunblock over her Macbook Pro while in the US, trashing the motherboard. Most of the replacement cost was covered. My hearing aids are covered; cameras, phones, laptops, tablets, pushbikes etc.
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