New Darters Twist On Old Joke!

Over the years I have got to know many darts players, some of whom had a sense of humour. Perhaps one of the most memorable characters was Big Bad John, who often had a very dry wit. I speak of him in the past tense because he emigrated to Scotland last year. He was the outdoors type playing with shotguns, ferrets, rabbits, pheasants and rather big knives. One day he slipped with his knife and cut his finger badly. Having a local Doctors Surgery in the village he went there to get it dressed. It was a deep cut and the nurse told him it should really be stitched to treat it properly, but bandaged it anyway saying that it would leave quite a scar and should heal up OK. John, being the idiot that he is, asked, “Will I be able to play the piano after it has healed?”
The Nurse said, “You should be able to.”
“Oh, that’s good then, because I couldn’t before!”

A few days ago I had my eyes routinely tested at the local opticians and that gave me the opportunity to re-cycle the old joke with a new twist for darters.

As I am getting older I am losing the ability in my eyes to focus and currently need three different strength lenses to be able to see properly when I am throwing darts, marking the board and writing notes for the match reports.

On having my eyes tested the Optician persuaded me to have tri-focal, not the more usual bi-focal, lenses fitted in my new glasses. (Correction - no such thing apparently, just me getting mixed up as usual. I ended up with Vari-Focal that I can't wear anyway!) While choosing the glasses that would best suit the new lenses and myself, I asked how they would affect going up and down stairs etc. I was told that I would soon get used to them, but to be extra careful with things like stairs, indeed steps of any sort and driving, for a week or so. The Optician asked me what else I do, so I said that I used the computer a lot for working on the darts websites and then I asked how the new type of lenses would affect my ability to play darts. The reply came back that they should not really affect my skills.
This led me to the punch-line and I asked if I would be able to put 3 darts into the treble twenty regularly?
She said yes.
I said, "That's good then, because I couldn’t before!"