I stole a pair of glasses from every target in the Portland Oregon area

I used to work for optometrist, I was an optician. Every lens we sold was the same quality, from a manufacturer in a suburb just north of the city. <br><br>The pairs we sold had to meet an internal standard. We would throw on a pair on a pair of frames, adjust them to an arbitrary size, test them with a thing called an autorefractor (a device that shines an LED light on your eye, then tells you what pair of glasses would best correct your eyesight), then we’d send them off to a lab where they’d be ground and polished into real glasses. <br><br>Sometimes on our own pair of frames, we’d get what we called a “reject”. A reject is a pair of lenses that didn’t meet our standard, either it was scratched, or had some anomaly in the lens, or a number of other things. Most doctors had no problem selling these lenses to patients at a discount, but our doctor had an issue with it. She would “lose” patient’s glasses in a lab, lie to them or come up with some wacky reason to sell them a full price pair. <br><br>She would harvest the crappy lenses from the rejects to sell at full price for children’s glasses. <br><br>So we had these rejects piling up on a wire cart in the storage room at my office. It came to me that every time someone got a brand new pair of glasses, you’d lose your previous pair. Not because you don’t have it anymore, but because you don’t need it, it no longer serves a purpose. <br><br>I began taking the rejects, and loading them into my car with the frames we used as demos. <br><br>Then, i’d go to a target and swap them out with the display on the rack. They had the exact same frames, and the lenses were colour coded to match prescription. <br><br>Sometimes I wouldn’t even take the old lenses out of the case, i’d just swap out the glasses, on the rack. I did this for well over a year, every target in the Portland area, and surrounding cities. <br><br>I wonder to this day how many children were tortured by an incorrect prescription at Target. <br><br>Edit: this was almost 10 years ago, and I no longer work as an optician.