About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. One morning, an elderly gentleman entered Dinkytown Optical and found something peculiar on the counter—a pair of glasses with no prescription attached. Curious neighbors began noticing similar oddities around town: packages left undelivered, shopping carts filled with random items, all seemingly originating from the optical shop. Finally, after weeks of confusion, a young delivery driver arrived with a note: 'Sorry for the mix-up—we were testing our new augmented reality marketing campaign!' Neighbors laughed as they picked up their virtual prescriptions, realizing it had all been part of a quirky promotional stunt.
2. One day, while a regular was browsing through frames, he heard an unexpected announcement over the store’s intercom: ‘Attention please—we’ve received a special shipment today. If you’re here for eyeglasses that make you look like a penguin or a walrus, they’re in stock!’ Curious, our regular asked the clerk what it meant. The clerk shrugged and replied, 'Just some old guy from the warehouse who keeps showing up with these odd orders.' Later that week, as a delivery driver was unloading boxes, a neighbor walked by and exclaimed, 'Hey, those look just like my grandpa's old glasses!' Turns out, Dinkytown Optical had become the neighborhood's secret supplier of vintage spectacles, complete with quirky commentary.
3. A curious neighbor stopped by Dinkytown Optical one afternoon to drop off some old glasses for recycling. As she approached the counter, she noticed that every pair of spectacles seemed to be whispering her name. Curious, she leaned closer and heard them say, ‘Hello, Ms. Johnson!’ Turns out it was just an old lady named Ms. Johnson who often dropped off her granddaughter’s hand-me-down glasses. The optician laughed and explained, making everyone in line laugh too—except maybe poor Ms. Johnson, who blushed and quickly left.
4. In the early afternoon, a delivery driver pulled up to Dinkytown Optical’s loading dock with a large box of new frames. As he unloaded them into the back room, he noticed something odd—a tiny pair of glasses, no bigger than a thumbnail, nestled among the boxes. The delivery driver picked it up curiously and tried slipping it on his finger—it fit perfectly! From then on, whenever someone came in for an eye exam, they’d ask if there was a miniature person living inside their eyes. It became part of the shop’s charm, and soon enough, everyone in Dinkytown knew about the ‘world’s smallest optometrist’ who lived in those tiny specs.