Asda Opticians

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At dusk one day, an elderly gentleman entered Asda Opticians for his usual eye checkup. While waiting for the technician, he noticed something peculiar outside—an old mannequin in the window seemed to wink at him every few minutes. Curious, our elderly gentleman decided to take a closer look. To his surprise, another mannequin inside the shop also started blinking in unison. Realizing it was just a trick of the light and some cleverly placed LEDs, he chuckled and joked with the technician: 'Guess I’ll need new glasses if these mannequins are trying to outdo me!'

2. One morning, a delivery driver pulled up outside Asda Opticians and noticed something odd. ‘Hey,’ he called out to no one in particular, ‘looks like someone left their glasses here last night!’ He picked them up and knocked on the door of the optician’s shop. A regular customer answered, rubbing his eyes: 'What time is it already? I was just testing my new reading glasses!'

3. One afternoon, as a delivery driver unloaded boxes from his truck near Asda Opticians, he heard a strange humming sound coming from inside. Curious, he peered through the window and saw an old man adjusting glasses with a satisfied smile on his face. Turns out, the humming was just the gentle whir of an ancient air-conditioning unit. The delivery driver shook his head and muttered, ‘Another day, another mystery solved.’

4. One autumn morning, while a young boy waited with his mother in line at Asda Opticians, he peered through the window and saw something peculiar—a shadowy figure adjusting glasses on a mannequin's face. The shadow moved like an expert, but every time it tried to straighten the frames, they seemed to slip off again. The boy giggled as his mom whispered, 'That poor person must be new.' Finally, the figure gave up and turned around—only to reveal itself as their next customer, a delivery driver who’d accidentally walked into the wrong shop.