I Spy

with my little stye-eye

On a recent Thursday I paid 60 US dollars for a 90-minute eye exam at a private clinical ophthalmology practice here in Scotland. It was a thorough chart-reading, eyeball picture-taking, a “one” or “two” lens-clarity quizzing, eye muscle-testing exam. While all that was going on, I learned a few things. Like why Napoleon Bonaparte is the reason we drive…