💬 Couldn't read the shop board I've walked past for 6 years

There's a medical shop across the road from my building. The board has a green cross and a name. I've read that name from my balcony every morning for 6 years. Sri Sai Medicals. Easy. On a Sunday last month I looked across and it was just a green blur with a few white lines. I rubbed my eyes like in a film. Nothing changed. I went inside and put the kettle on, very calmly. Then I started noticing the other things. I'd been holding my phone further away for months. I told myself the font was small. My mother kept asking why I was squinting. I said I wasn't squinting. I was squinting. At work a colleague asked if she should read the whiteboard out loud for me. I said no, then got up and walked 2 metres closer. She didn't say anything, which was worse. I booked an eye test in Himayatnagar for Saturday. The optician kept putting lenses in front of me. Better or worse, better or worse. I said number 2 was clearer. He said that's the same lens. My left eye had dropped a lot since my last test 2 years ago. The right one was fine. He asked how long the headaches had been going on. I said what headaches? He just wrote something down. The new glasses were ready in 3 days. First thing I did was go straight to the balcony. Sri Sai Medicals. Of course it was. Crisp and green, like they'd repainted it overnight. I also found out the board has a tiny phone number on the bottom that I never knew about. And a spelling mistake. It says MEDICLES. 6 years I've been looking at that.

Sri Sai Medicals turning into a green blur sounds scary, but I am glad you went in for the test. I kept squinting at road signs for almost a year and blamed the signs. My new glasses showed me the leaves on the trees again, which I had not seen clearly in ages. Did the optician say it came on slowly for you too?

I did the same with my phone. Font size went from medium to large to the biggest, and I told nobody. I waited almost a year to book the test. I think I was scared they'd say something big. They didn't. Both eyes had gone down a bit, that's all, and the glasses were ready in 2 days. Your pharmacy board typo made me check the one outside my office. It has one too.