Gayle Thomas, 67 was shopping for new glasses at her local Wal-Mart鈥檚 optical department when she accidently lost her own pair of glasses on the frame display board.
After having tried on dozens of different frames, switching back and forth from her own pair to demo pairs, she didn鈥檛 notice at first that she had put her own glasses onto the display board and forgot where she had put them.
Thomas was accompanied by daughter, Christy Montclair, 44 who had to help her mother search for the lost spectacles.
鈥淚 couldn鈥檛 stop laughing! We had to search the wall of frames for a good five minutes before we finally found where she had stuck her glasses,鈥� Montclair said. 鈥淲e tried to find them before anyone would notice, to save embarrassment, but the young man working saw mom鈥檚 frantic searching and saw me laughing and he came over to help us.鈥�
Optical technician, Simon Tidwell, 27 recalls, 鈥淭his isn鈥檛 the first time we鈥檝e had this happen, but usually customers seem to have trouble finding their old glasses when the frame is still on their face. Honestly, I just wanted to help the lady find her stuff and get her out so that I could take my lunch.鈥�
Thomas was relieved to have her glasses back. 鈥淲e wanted to kill a little time before we had to meet my son and his new girlfriend at the China Buffet across the street for lunch. The kid working was such a sweetie, though. And patient鈥� I鈥檝e been in the market for some new glasses since I walked in here, and he explained that I鈥檇 need a current prescription, which I didn鈥檛 have, but he didn鈥檛 mind searching their systems to see if I had any vision insurance that they could take. Unfortunately, they don鈥檛 because I don鈥檛 pay for any vision plans. I do have one of those Rx discount cards, but it didn鈥檛 help him find me in there.鈥�