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“Better now? Now?”
Sally the optician had stopped caring before Harry sat in the chair. Harry wasn’t bothered either. He’d made ‘Silly Mistakes’ at work so they’d sent him for an eye test but they were paying and it was in company time.
“Better now?”
He started randomly saying what made him see clearer.
“Better now?”
Sally didn’t notice and prescribed glasses that would make things much worse at Harry’s work.
The receptionist who was concentrating on counting the hours’ til home time typed the amount wrong in the card reader, this mistake quadrupled the bill.
No one ever noticed.

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