Second Sight

  After the procedure on my eye, the protocol is to have the technician (or whatever she is called) put 2 different drops into your eyes and then you wait an hour in the office to have your pressure checked.  The information sheet you are handed reads, in bold print, to "ALWAYS WAIT AT LEAST 15 MINUTES BETWEEN BOTTLES."  The tech inserts a drop from one of the bottles and prepares to put in the other drop seconds later.  "You're supposed to wait at least 15 minutes between drops," she says, "but I know you don't want to wait here that long."    I'm scheduled to be there for at least another hour, so I say something like "Really?"  Immediately her sunny demeanor turns cloudy, and she grudgingly concedes  that she'll wait if I want to.  I say never mind.