The Positive Power of Twitter and the kind people of Wilmslow

At James Doyle Opticians, here in Wilmslow, we just recently had the pleasure to help a patient in a rather unusual and unexpected way, and we wanted to share the story with you.
Thanks to Twitter and the power of networking we were able to join forces and return lost property to its rightful owner.

A few weeks ago, a patient arrived at our Wilmslow Practice needing both new frames and lenses. He had lost his previous pair of glasses quite recently whilst out with his family. So far so normal.

However, some days later, we noticed a message on Twitter, with a picture, announcing that someone had found a pair of glasses whilst walking in The Carrs and could Twitter help to reunite them with their rightful owner.

The Tweet went like this....

As you can see, it wasn't much to go on, but we had a hunch that we knew who they might belong to.
So we replied....

The power of Twitter took over and after a brief exchange of Tweets, John dropped the glasses into our Wilmslow Opticians Practice.


Once they had been brought in, we were able to use our super sleuthing techniques to confirm that they were indeed the pair that had been lost by our patient.

As you can imagine he was delighted.

Instead of him having to buy expensive replacement frames, we are going to try and fit his new prescription lenses into his existing frames, plus he has saved a lot of time and trouble.
So again Twitter came into it's own as he was able to thank John via Social Media…

Who was able to reply...









Now if this was a film script, the three of us would get together over a glass of something chilled and delicious, congratulating each other on the community spirit of Wilmslow folk and the positive power of Social Media.
That hasn't happened yet, but who knows… Keep watching, and remember - the next time you are reading nothing but bad news in the press, there are still plenty of gems of people out there.