debts of fathers paid by sons

my day today got off to a rough start, had customers who brought a kid in and wanted to make a pair of glasses for him and they even had a doctor's prescription
i took a look at the kid and wondered , he looked kinda old to be sitting in a pram
and i took a look at the doc's RX and thought "WTF?!" its so high for a kid.... i looked up and looked at the man(two other ladies with him but they can't speak english or chinese) and i asked

"er...... the power's pretty high for the kid, how old is he?"

man"he's 3 1\2 years old"

me"3 1\2?? kinda young for such a high power"
and i began to feel that something's terribly wrong, couldn't really put a finger on why, but i can sense that something's wrong
my first thought were , i'll need to get my optom to test the kid's eyes

and i asked "do you need an eye test? or do you want to have his eyes tested again"

man smiles"its all right, i'll go with the doctor's prescription"

me"ok you'll need to choose a frame for him , is he rough?"

man"ah yes, he's pretty rough, do you have something really tough"

me"yes i have "

and i took out something that you can bend around without breaking, and the man decided that he wanted something like that for the kid

and i said"why don't i let the kid try it on and see if he likes it , if not we have other colours"

and i squat down infront of the kid, the moment i went near his face with the glasses, he started screaming loudly, ok he was actually screaming before this, but i thought he was just being naughty\mischievous, but now i sudenly realised, something IS TERRIBLY WRONG
he's screaming for no apparent reason and his eyes don't seem to be looking straight

at this point , the man , looked at me and smiled again, but bitterly this time
"the boy can't speak, nor can he hear well, and he has some problems with his eyes so we decided to get some glasses for him first"

ok by just that line, my entire day's gone really rotten, but i still have to go ahead with this

after repeated attempts to try the glasses on the kid without success on my part nor the kid's family, the man decided to to choose the green one for the kid just to make things easier for me, and i had to measure the pd and the kid's mum and the other lady had to hold the kid down while i tried to measure, its like the kid's gone mad with all his screaming and struggling(exorcist style?), i was really afraid the kid would hurt himself

after measuring, the man explained, he's an indonesian chinese and the kid's his nephew, and the two ladies , one of them's the kid's mom and she's the man's sister in law and the other's her relative
and he said, the kid's father wasn't a good man, having done a lot of bad things in his life, and now retribution's fallen upon his only son
they've been trying for 4 years to get a child, and when they finally got one, they didn't suspect anything wrong, because the doctor they visited never told them anything's wrong
that was until the mother who goes to church met a chinese doctor(or was that a doc from china) who took one look at the kid and said, "you'll need to take him to singapore to see a doctor there, i know the professor so and so at NUH , I'll write you a letter"
and thats how they got here, and the child's still undergoing a large number of different treatments

to be honest, i have always dislike seeing disabled people, everytime i see them, i feel like i owe them something, and i don't understand why i'm able bodied and they're not and its wrong i can run ,hear or see and they can't
but as for this kid, if like his uncle said, its really retribution, isn't that unfair? who decided that he must suffer for this? god? well , fuck god then, god must be moving misteriously again, this is why i have always hated religion, because the rules are always lame, and the undeserving suffers



the rest of my day was pretty uneventful till i came back from the washrooms to find a couple sitting at the counter , seems like they're demanding a refund, because my manager promised them they will get one, naturally , they'll get the refund, but what amount? because the price given was for a special condition,2 Z and its X% off each for two
and buying one would be Y% off
they only wanted one now since the colour they wanted was out of stock,something i warned them about, meaning i can't refund them that much , meaning they'll need to pay a higher price for what they have already taken and that is something they don't agree with
they insisted that i refund them at the price of X%off, and showing a attitude that says "pay me or i'll cause trouble"
and the guy was showing a smug look that seems to tell us he'll defend his lady friend and that IS his purpose in the first place, and from experience, this kind of men are the stupidest and fondest of starting fights to show that they're heroes(cavemen mentality?)
i would dearly loved to have made a firm stand against them, but my manager wouldn't want trouble, and especially when you operate in the higher end of the market, reputation's very important
in the end i refunded them , and even asked that they come back to us if there's anything we can do to help them