From Lose Friends Radio comes this ‘Believe it or not’ segment Number 3, called ‘See for yourself’. You can read the transcript below, or listen to the original broadcast by clicking on the green play button:
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Believe it or not, according to Jonar Nader, an optometrist in Australia was sued by fourteen patients who claim that they have been prescribed incorrect glasses, resulting in blurred vision, headaches and a range of other ailments.
It was alleged that his incompetence was the cause of these errors. Needless to say, he has suffered humiliation and distress after the court found him guilty of malpractice.
The optometrist has recently discovered that the building contractor who completed recent renovations to the examination-room, erected one of the walls in the wrong spot. This is the wall on which examination-charts are projected. As a result, patients who were asked to read the various charts (now 4 inches further away than they should have been) were incorrectly diagnosed.
“No-one would ever have known if it wasn’t for our new fridge,” explained the optometrist. “As part of the renovations, we ordered a new fridge for the kitchenette next door, but the fridge would not fit in the allocated space. We first thought that we were sent the wrong model, but later I realised that the kitchen was smaller than we planned.
“As you can imagine, the fridge did not rate highly on my list of priorities so I didn’t give it much thought, but later that night I was lying in bed when it dawned on me. If the kitchen is smaller than expected, then the room next door must be bigger than planned. And that’s how I found out that my whole career is on the line because the builder deviated from the plan.”
The jubilant optometrist dashed out of bed at 2:00 am and went to his office armed with a tape measure, and cracked the puzzle that would have made Colombo proud.
He has appealed the court’s decision and is awaiting further advice from his lawyers about submitting a counter-claim against the builder, who happens to be his father-in-law.
The problem is that his father-in-law does not have adequate insurance to cover such a complex counter-claim anyway.
Believe it… or not.
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