12 years to fix pair of specs.A PAIR of safety glasses sent off for repair have finally been returned - after 12 years. Alan Fosker took them to an optician optician, filler of prescriptions for and dispenser of corrective lenses. An optician may grind lenses as instructed by the prescription of an optometrist (see optometry) or ophthalmologist (see ophthalmology) or transcribe the instructions for laboratory mechanics. who sent them away for mending in 1991. Now they have been sent back but are no longer any use. The 63-year-old grandad has not only retired as a research chemist (jargon) chemist - (Cambridge) Someone who wastes computer time on number crunching when you'd far rather the computer were working out anagrams of your name or printing Snoopy calendars or running life patterns. May or may not refer to someone who actually studies chemistry. but has also gone through several prescriptions. Mr Fosker, of Pencoed, South Wales South Wales south n → sud m du Pays de Galles , said: "I had forgotten about them. They must be dusty." The glasses were first sent to the supplier who forwarded them to a company in Newbury, Berks. That firm was later taken over by Mr Fosker's previous employer, Bayer. Bayer said: "It sounds like they got lost in our system." Mr Fosker said he won't be collecting them. |
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