Playwrights

Contacts

Setting: a sleek white waiting room with glasses on the wall.
Time: 10:38 AM
Annie: (sits patiently on a chair)
Lazy Annie: (moans) what are we doing here?
Nerdy Annie: I thought we were contributing time to distributing food to needy families at the local soup kitchen. Why are in an optical specialist's office?
Annie: well, this eye doctor has been examining my eyes like since I was a little kid with issues in my peripheral vision to now with my myopia.
Bold Annie: yo what's that?
Annie: (starts explaining) peripheral vision is-
Nerdy Annie: (interrupts) (reads off phone) Peripheral vision is a part of vision that occurs outside the very center of gaze. There is a broad set of non-central points in the visual field that is included in the notion of peripheral vision according to Wikipedia.
Annie: (sighs annoyedly) yes and myopia is-
Nerdy Annie: (interrupts) an optical condition where one has problems seeing things far away also called nearsightedness and treated with glasses, optical surgery, or contacts.
Annie: (annoyed) yes that's correct.
Nerdy Annie: and you have chosen glasses as your treatment
Annie: yes now stop interrupting me
Nerdy Annie: my apologies
Annie: anyway, I am here to discuss getting contacts with my eye doctor
Nerdy Annie: you mean your optical specialist.
Annie: (annoyed) yes my optical specialist. Nerdy Annie, I swear to lord if you interrupt me one more time I will flip
Nerdy Annie: (nervous) my apologies although you shouldn't swear to the lord because that is said to be insolent
Non Stop Singing Annie: (trying to break up the argument) perhaps Annie means she swears to lord like the singer Lorde
Annie: yes Non Stop Singing Annie. Thank you. Anyway, I am here to discuss getting contacts with my eye doctor.
Bold Annie: why? You look good with glasses
Annie: I just think I look better without them. I mean I'm not like overly self conscious about it. I just look good without them and I want to try contacts.
Fashion Annie: (intrigued) take off your glasses
Annie: (takes off glasses)
Fashion Annie: put them back on
Annie: (puts them back on)
Fashion Annie: off
Annie: (takes them back off)
Fashion Annie: on
Annie: (puts them back on)
Fashion Annie: (pondering) yeah I see your point. You look pretty without them
Annie: thanks
Fashion Annie: you're welcome.
Non Stop Singing Annie; oh yeah! I got eight people to do my collab on Smule Sing. Score!
Annie: nice job! You're a talented singer. You deserve it.
Secretary: (walks out of hall) Annie?
Annie: Hey, Hope
Nerdy Annie: yes ma'am?
Bold Annie: yo?
Fashion Annie: hi
Lazy Annie: (asleep on chair) (raises hand)
Non Stop Singing Annie: (sing) Hello...its me...
Secretary: (confused look)
Annie: heh. Sorry, Hope. These are my friends. (Motions to them all one by one) Nerdy Annie, Bold Annie, Fashion Annie, Non Stop Singing Annie, and Lazy Annie.
Secretary: oh. Okay. Come on back please.
Annie: okay. I'll be right back guys. (gets up and walks away)

48 Minutes Later...

Lazy Annie: are we done?
Annie: nope.
Fashion Annie: did you get the prescription?
Annie: yep
Lazy Annie: so let's go!
Annie: not yet. My pupils are dilated so that my doctor can do one more check. And we are gonna have to go back to learn about how to use my contacts safely
Lazy Annie: urrrgh! This is so not worth it for contacts! Let's just go already!
Annie: no! Lazy Annie, stop your complaining or I swear I will shove my glasses down your throat! It isn't even that much of a drag.
Bold Annie: a little salty today, eh?
Annie: okay fine. You people are just irritating me a little bit.
Bold Annie: sorry
Annie: it's fine. Just stop.
Fashion Annie: so what exactly does it mean to dilate your pupils?
Annie: oh. It's basically-
Nerdy Annie: (interrupts) dilated pupils is where the pupils of your eyes expand to let in more light at night. Optical specialists insert eye drops to study this at most patient visits!
Annie: (facepalm) oh my gosh!

Hi! Hopefully you people enjoyed this episode of Playwrights. In all seriousness, I am getting contacts instead of glasses today. I got the prescription and was writing this in the eye doctor's waiting room. And to clarify, Smule Sing that Non Stop Singing Annie was mentioning is an app where you can sing songs with other people basically. Go follow Non Stop Singing Annie on Smule Sing at LittleAnnieFoxx! She's an awesome singer. Song credits are Hello by Adele. And I didn't have time to write about my visit to the soup kitchen. I went there over winter break for my Independent Service Project for National Junior Honors Society at school. It was pretty fun and it went well. It was a little awkward and I was pretty shy at first, but I adjusted and I was able to comfortably talk to the homeless people there and take away dishes for them and serve them on the cafeteria line. We were there from about two to five thirty. That's three and a half hours off of my brother and I's ISPs. We need a total of ten hours by March 20th I think. And now I'm blabbering on so peace out!