Not unlike many children in third grade, I had a hard time seeing the chalkboard. Inevitably, my teacher called my parents to let them know it was high time I see an ophthalmologist. It was an astounding case of problem, contact, solution. Oddly, they hadn’t a clue I couldn’t see well. I never strained to watch television (of course, I always sat two feet away). The fact that the only time I could be seen was smack-dab in the middle of the school day made for a perfect day.

Getting there was an adventure in itself. I had never seen downtown and to be surrounded by all that concrete and steel was beyond me. When you’re eight years old, you’re relegated to school, your house, and the grocery store. Strangely, I can still remember the crackle of AM radio pumping through the car speakers. Hearing about world affairs and watching skyscrapers loom overhead was a marked turning point in my young life.

The time between the parking garage, the elevator and the doctor’s office was all a blur. Time stopped and I had the keen sensation of floating through my day. Safe, with my father, and out of school — what could be better? I had been introduced to the great, wide world, and nothing was going to keep me down on the proverbial farm. And by farm, I mean elementary school.

The immaculate waiting room was a newsstand of magazines and recent issues of Highlights. Before I could find all the hidden items in the search and circle, my name was called. Everything in the examination room was so clean and shiny. I remember thinking that my grandmother must have cleaned it because there was plastic on the chairs.

The doctor, who was a regal version of Colonel Sanders, and I played a prolonged gamed of “which is better, A or B.” Moments later he waltzed in with a test pair of contact lenses and a bottle of premium contact solution. He showed me how to slide the lenses on and how to wash them. I felt pretty special that day — important, even. My eyes had, by a strange twist of fate, broadened my horizons.

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