13 Things That ECPs Hate to Hear During the Holidays

IF YOU HAVEN’T caught up with social media in the last three months, the red flag took the spotlight for the most used emoji on Twitter when it was used to point out warning signs in people. For example, when you use there, their and they’re interchangeably: 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩. When someone says they don’t drink coffee: 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩. Or, even worse, when someone says, “I don’t follow @OverheardOptometry”: 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 (kidding, but not really).

The viral red flag memes flooded the internet and took a turn when Overheard Optometry joined the party and shared the optometry version of red flag Tweets. You may be thinking, “What could be better than our bizarre stories from the eyecare world?” One possible answer: optometry red flag Tweets: Holiday Edition 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄.

1. Do you mean for the holidays next year?

2. Yes, let me call your ophthalmologist to seer if she can squeeze you in.

3. Yes, of course. White Elephant takes priority.

4. What a unique situation you’ve been placed in.

5. No worries. Not in a rush or anything.

6. Yes, only two days before the holiday when all the labs are closed. Of course.

7. Oh. We have specific dates. During the winter break. This will go well.

8. That’s most probably called insurance fraud.

9. That sounds fair. You should have told us earlier that it was for the holidays.

10. Yes. The month that is less than one month away.

11. Contact lens folks: If you know, you know.

12. Operator: This is an emergency. I need contacts ASAP.

13. Because we don’t … ship them … from Amazon?

Elvira Derhovsepian

Elvira Derhovsepian is an ophthalmic scribe and the creator of the social media platform @overheardoptometry, a community of people who share their unique (and sometimes so very common) stories in eyecare. Derhovsepian recently published the first volume of the Overheard Optometry book, now available at Amazon, and enjoys freelance writing and editing in her free time.