Check Your Vision Letterbox Hybrid
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I recently went to see my eye doctor (like I don't see her enough). I told her I thought my eyesight was fluctuating rapidly and currently was probably around 20/70. Knowing that the only thing about eyes that I know is "sclera", she told me that mine should be brown since I am so full of...uh...well, you know. Trying to sound smart, I told her that maybe it was as good as 20/30 on a good day. She informed me that I was being dramatic and that my eyesight was probably 20/20 since I just had LASIK in March. She told me she would prove it and have me read the eye chart. Sensing a fabulous opportunity to push her buttons, I read the 20/50 line perfectly but completely destroyed the 20/20 line on purpose. Knowing me as she does, she knew I was lying. I stood my ground, though, and told her I could read the 20/100 line with no problem but everything else was now a blur. I heard her mutter something about living a life of abstinence so I quickly read the 20/13 line and blew my cover. Crap. Trying to recover, I blurted out "E!". Then I read the 20/70 line again but said that everything else is blurry and told her I was right all along. By now she's tired of my game. She tells me we are going to do this another way. She put the scary looking machine in front of my face, told me to look in the eyepieces and answer her questions. They were pretty easy questions. The only choices I had were 1 and 2 or A and B. This was easy. Finally she told me to get up and look at her side of the machine. The numbers she showed me what I really knew all along, 20/20.
I hope she stops making me sleep on the couch sometime soon.

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A little about letterboxing: Someone hides a waterproof box somewhere (in a beautiful, interesting, or remote location) containing at least a logbook and a carved rubber stamp, and perhaps other goodies. The hider then usually writes directions to the box (called "clues" or "the map"), which can be straightforward, cryptic, or any degree in between. Often the clues involve map coordinates or compass bearings from landmarks, but they don't have to. Selecting a location and writing the clues is one aspect of the art.
Once the clues are written, hunters in possession of the clues attempt to find the box. In addition to the clue and any maps or tools needed to solve it, the hunter should carry at least a pencil, his personal rubber stamp, an inkpad, and his personal logbook. When the hunter successfully deciphers the clue and finds the box, he stamps the logbook in the box with his personal stamp, and stamps his personal logbook with the box's stamp. The box's logbook keeps a record of all its visitors, and the hunters keep a record of all the boxes they have found, in their personal logbooks.
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