Should I Delete That? - Is It Just Me: Intimate things that shouldn't be intimate

Episode Date: January 11, 2024

On this week's IIJM, the girls discuss things that aren't intimate but feel really intimate...Follow us on Instagram @shouldideletethatEmail us at [e-mail] by Daisy GrantMusic by Alex Andrew Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello, welcome back to It Should I Delete That? I'm Alex Likes. And I'm wearing Daisy, I'm wearing producer Daisy's jumper. Because I leaked my stupid little milk all over my stupid little shirt. Honestly, it really works. I also have it's upgraded my outfit. Sorry. It has though.

It's just like, it's so cool. It's elevated it. It is trendy. It's like a green little vest. Yeah. A V-neck vest. Very cool. I didn't never, but it's very cool.

I've wanted a sleeveless jumper for a really long time. Yeah. But I haven't known what to wear underneath it. And I feel like either you end up like Daisy Grant brand, which is like very trendy lesbian. Yeah. Or you end up, a little juggle. Or you end up like looking like you should be like owning a bit of a racehorse.

Do you know what I mean? Oh, I see. Like very posh. Yeah. So I feel. feel like yeah get you yeah it's either like it should be from ralph lauren and you should be wearing you should be wearing joppers but i feel like that's if you wear like a white shirt a crisp white shirt underneath that's when you like this is where i've been going wrong because i can't think of anything

else to put underneath a t-shirt white t-shirt a la daisy yeah it just takes me into trendy lesbian territory and i'm not a trendy lesbian i'm not trendy or a lesbian you but you can you can be trendy in cosplay. Yeah. Well, I like this jumper and I do feel inspired when I go home to buy a vest like this. So do I. I want a vest. Yeah, okay, fine.

We're entering a sweater vest era. Oh my God, I want a tank. Love this. You will look ridiculous in one right now. I would look ridiculous in one right now. Can you imagine? I want to manage your expectations. I think you might look ridiculous.

It would like, I don't think it would hit my belly button. Big Winnie the poo vibes are. Big, big, big winnie. Sorry, that's my excitement because we have got such a good episode. Hit me. These are my favourite kind of episodes. Hit me. We did a call out on the Instagram for things that aren't actually intimate but feel really intimate.

I'm going to kick us off. Okay. When you and a stranger are both looking at the same groceries and standing really close together. I did it so much. Like, what do you want with my cheese? It's fuck off. But like, it gives me extra decision paralysis then, you know? Yeah, no, 100%.

Because I'm like, but I was like very self-conscious. I'm like, okay, I'm going to reach for this cucumber. What are you going to do about it? Do you know what I mean? And then I'm like, do I really want it? Do I really want it? Because do I want them to know that I want it? Because I don't like ever, it's the cool girl phenomenon.

You never want to be seen to want something. So it's like to leap out and reach, to reach for something is very. It's very like, I want this. They're like, all right, greedy. Goetheets. Yeah, there's something about wanting something that really gives me the ick. So.

I kind of get that, I think. And they'll deceive me. Like, oh, what are you going to, yeah, what are you getting those for? Like, oh, you think you're all healthy, do you? A bag of kale, loser. Well, yeah, fair enough. You're telling me? Not really.

I really want to agree. I don't know. for me it's more like do they think that I want to talk to them why would they want to know why would you want to talk to them because if I'm just like being very silent right next to them

looking at the same thing suddenly I think like oh they think I want to chat them up or I think I want a convo what happens if like so they're on your left and like okay I'm just thinking at my local co-op

like all the dips are on the left so like we're both standing there and then it's like what if I got to lean across you but also I want to look at the dips and you're kind of in my way so do I go behind you or if I just got to like

sort of crane my neck and kind of peer into your line of vision. Like, it's too much. And actually, I think people are so rude because when I'm looking, I am always conscious when I'm when I'm stopping to look for what I want in the supermarket of like people around me, are they looking for the same thing? Do they need to come up? Do they need to take something? I'm always very conscious of that. So I'll be quick and I'll move out the way. Some people just stand there. Like they have nothing else to do. That's me. I'm the person that stands there. I've got nothing else to do.

because I can never honestly and there's something wrong with me it's like I cannot do like if I'm okay so the other day I had to go and get Harissa paste which as it turns out I absolutely hate like I had it for a recipe Harissa is disgusting no offence to people that like Harissa

I was I saw a recipe be on TikTok for like Harissa beans like a bean dish and I'm really in my bean era at the moment I'm putting butter beans and stuff because I just feel like like high protein delicious warm and I feel like

I keep saying them on TikTok with like crunchy bread and I'm like um beans You know. Anyway, so I was really excited with the Horissa beans. I didn't know what Horissa was, but I was like, that looks delicious. It's not delicious.

No, Horissa is disgusting. But I was standing there for like, it's so spicy. That's why I went wrong. And it is a little bit like soap. So it was just like very spicy soap. Courteous. Anyway, and I was just staring at the fucking products. And I literally, it was like, it was right in front of my face.

And I must have been looking at it for 15 minutes. I was like, there's no Horissa here. Oh, I enjoy spot the product. I enjoy the product. I love a challenge with that. See, I think that's, you're an. I think most of us are just absolute, like, gormless idiots and just stand there. Like, why am I here?

I think I've talked about this on the podcast before, but it's just come flooding back to me an idea for an app, right? Yeah. Okay. When you go into the store, it tells you exactly where everything is. Because can you ever find eggs? Never. Ever.

Yeah. Yeah. I can never find any. Well, clearly, I can never find anything. Eggs are like a law into themselves. There never, there's no real. there's no rhyme or reason for where they are. But there's no rhyme more reason for where anything is. Like I wanted baby food the other day.

Like that was so far away from everything. It was by the big bottles of Pepsi. I was like, why in, what situation wouldn't cause these two things to need to be next to each other? And you know what I really hate cling film, okay? Yeah. Or like, God, I wouldn't even know where to. Timfoil.

There are separate aisle. There's a baking aisle over here. And there's a household essentials over there. Which one does that belong to? And you know what's really confusing about. tinfoil, particularly at this time of year, it's often at the end of an aisle in a big pot full of other tinfoils. Is it? Yeah. Like wrapping paper. I see it all the time. Just like at the like plop to the end of the aisles. Yeah. Like, woo, get this like massive tinfoil.

Oh, because of roast dinners and how much. Yeah. Oh, oh, I like that. Well, yes, except when you go in and you're like, I need to buy tinfoil, I've got to check the end of every aisle. Stupid. Stupid. It's stressful. How about a nap, though? Wouldn't that be so cool? It would be really good. But then there's also something that I really love about the hunt. When I've got time. on my hands like there is nothing I love more

nothing I love more than a trip to an Eminem am I okay than a trip to Eminus than a trip to MNS I do I love MNS and they're a treat

it's not where I go for my every days I know but my God it were bankrupt too funny you should say that I saw a video on TikTok

price comparing M&S and Aldi oh very often Aldi was more expensive really it was fascinating to me I mean Eminus is expensive

but then everything is But it's just really interesting. In my head, yeah, I was just really struck by it. And this is so good. So good. And I feel classy. And I see that. They've got vegan cheese straws in there.

Have they? Oh my God. They're to die for. Do you mean like cheese strings? No, like cheese straws. Like a kind of pastry thing. Oh, I see, I see, I see. And they've got the plant-based cookie.

Like, oh my God. I just love it. I love it. They do go plant-based stuff there. The best plant base, literally it's the best plant base. strange in my opinion. Is it? That's why I've got my no dark hoisan rap from MNess again. The vapor one in Waterloo Station. It's made my life complete.

Yeah, the huge one. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I missed that. It was the first trolley a Rlo ever went in. I was like, was it. Yeah. It's like the only way from here is down, my love. You will never sit in a trolley this precious again. We set the bar quite high. Very high, yeah. That was my mistake. But I just love an M&S. I do love an M&S. Anyway. Anyway. That was intimate. So intimate, right? You had so much to say.

I know. Sharing a list. I just called the guy we got in the lift with Buddy. You really, you really did. You said, bye, buddy. Yeah, I just got, we got in a lift to come up to the studio and a guy got out, the floor below us. And I went, bye, buddy. We all looked to you like, oh, okay. Why did you do that?

It's intimate. I panicked. And then I felt awkward, so I said, bye buddy, too. Bye, buddy. Yeah, it's some familiarity. I've never used Buddy in my life. I've got to use Buddy a bit less than what I do. I use it all the time.

Hi, buddy. Buddy. I buddy. I quite like it. Yeah, what's it made me think of? Buddy the elf, what's your favorite color? Elf. Yeah, that's it.

Bye, buddy. Hope you find your dad. I love that film. I do like that film. I think it's the only Wilfarre film I actually like. But do you like it? I know, I really don't find him funny. You don't find him funny?

Not at all. I think Stepbrothers is literally one of the worst films I've ever seen in my life. I laughed so hard in Step Brothers. I actually thought I was going to pop something. Oh, God. I watched it for the first time on my brothers. phone on a plane and I watch and just in the bunk bed scene when the bunk bed collapses I laughed until I like actually hurt myself that's yeah that's so funny that you didn't

find it funny yeah him specifically I don't know I don't I just I find him really unfunny Talladega nights that's funny Blades of Glory I haven't seen those hmm I mean he's in bloody everything actually what I just he's in you one with Mark Wahlberg he's funny in that Ted? Teddy? No, Teddy. No, no, no, he's in something about dads. Step dads. No, dad's. Something about dads anyway. It's funny. But to be honest, my brother loves him. And like, yeah. And so if ever, like, there's a film at home, it'll be my brother will have put that on. Maybe I need to see more. I can't just, I know what you mean. I can't just watch two and be like, oh, I don't, you know. Maybe I need to branch out. But he, that's Adam Thalma for me. Gives me. Don't find him funny. It's just not for me. Really, really not funny.

It's really not for me. No. But then... But they're so famous. Like, he's so famous. Seth Rogen, same thing. Yeah. You're always just playing the same really stone guy.

Yeah. But grow up. And it's so like slapsticky but just not in a good way. But I think we're just being assholes. Yeah, probably. Yeah. Ignore us. That's quite normal.

Accidentally touching someone's hand when holding on the tube. Oh, when holding the pole. That's so much. I would sooner not. hold anything and risk literally landing on their lap i do like to tube surf actually i love in your state you should not be doing that no no no um i love to choose so high though it's fun yeah because if we go down we go down together yeah no that's horrible when you touch someone's out that's not nice no it's not nice at all way too intimate i get even like touching someone's hood

or bag yeah oh god god i was on the i was on a really busy tube on the way home the day and i breathed out and as I did the girl in front of me's ponytail moved in my wind and I was like ah too close to you that's gross it was really bad yeah and her hair was like oh no I'm sorry I hate being you know when the tube's packed and you're so close to someone that you can see all their pores and I'm like I shouldn't be here you've got a black head there I would love to get that for you I don't like that I don't like that the intimacy on the tube but I feel like you almost get desensitized on the tube to the closeness yeah to the closeness yeah for sure until until you broke to physical touch and then it's a whole thing I would argue this one like touching

someone's hand I would argue that that is intimate do you get it where like I saw a mean the other day I was I thought it was just me that did this when I used to commute to work when I was like young I would if I ever saw anybody my age on the tube I'd be like oh so we're in love oh yeah Oh my God, absolutely. Oh, wow. Anyone I saw, any boy I saw anywhere, I was like, I were in love. Oh, well, that's nice. Yeah, I was so boy mad.

Why are you? Obsessed. Oh, that's cute. Yeah, I have, oh my God, yeah, I was obsessed. I had my, like, first kiss when I was 11, and I loved him so much. Had your first kiss on you're 11, and you loved him so much. I loved him so much. I was obsessed with him.

Oh, wow. I haven't wrote him a letter. I bet you came on really fucking strong. I was so. So. I can imagine a serious intensity to 11-year-old boy mad, Alex. I mean, I didn't know, obviously, like, I was way out of my depth, but I was just so in love. Yeah, I was so boy mad.

Oh, my God. Yeah, any boys on the train, on the, oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God, yeah. On the bus. On the train. I once had an experience when I was like 16 and I was coming back from a party and I was really hung over. And there was a whole load, I don't know where I was going.

There was a whole load of guys. It was, I mean, it actually feels. feels like it should have been a dream, really, but it wasn't because I was on the dream coming back. And I was a bit hung over. And there were loads of men in their army uniform. They were going back to their barracks. Oh. And they were being deployed because it was when we were when I was young. So when there was a war on. Right. So they were literally going to war. And this guy asked for my number. And I was like, yeah, I was like, sir, okay. Can I come with you? I was like, yeah, I love you. yeah so I gave him my number

and he was like I mean he was like probably only like 18 or 19 I was 16 and I was like wow yeah and he asked me in front of all his friends and I was like oh my okay yeah did you have a text you yeah he did we texted and then he went to war so

didn't text them anymore did he okay I'm sure he's fine okay I'm sure he's fine but yeah it was just oh my god imagine what could have been I know I mean you've got Alex so it's good so we're all good yeah yeah I'm fine

but how romantic's that so I think that's where it probably got work It probably came from there because I was like, well, this has happened once, it can happen again. I was like, it was like the railway children. Yeah. Gosh, I've never had a romantic account like that.

I know. I think I do come across two. I come across to. You see, I've got quite good cat energy on, do you know what I mean? I'm like, leave me alone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So then people come to me.

Yeah. I'm like. A golden retriever. Yeah. Love me. Please, please. Please pet me. But if it happened to me now,

I'd be like, oh, fuck off. But, well, obviously because I'm married, but like... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but it wasn't romantic. It was actually probably quite like... I'm sad. No, I mean, no, probably just kind of like...

I was super hungover, so I had like makeup all over my face. I think I was like a shake of our t-shirt that was pink, which was weird. And, yeah, I don't know, odd. Anyway, anyway, yeah. I like that. I enjoy it. Yeah, good. Nice.

I don't know what it is either. Sounds right, though. Along with... There's another word that I always say and I don't actually know what it means. I was thinking I'm going to write them down and Google them, but I don't... Or I Google them, but I just forget what I've Googled.

Anyway. Next one. Putting change into the cashier's hand. Oh, yeah, that's a warm exchange. That is really difficult, actually, because I tend to drop it so I don't have any touch.

But if you have to really time the drop. Yeah, you can't have loads of coins. And you can't have loads of drop. It's got to be an appropriate amount of drop. Otherwise, you're like, boo! Catch it. Yeah.

It's a hard thing to get right. I put it on the counter and I don't want the touch. Oh, very, very cool. Like if I were putting a pound down, I'd put it down and then I'd just slide it. I like that. Wordlessly across the counter. to

movies like in the drug store yeah no no in the liquor store I like that

yeah except I say this like I have hand money I have not seen a coin in a very long time

I'm an Apple pay hole oh Al I've lost my wallet again who actually yes where if I knew

I wouldn't be lost you know I'm most upset about go on I've got Aziz's black card in there

that's rough cards cards can be replaced that cannot be replaced that can not be replaced I'm really upset. That's rough.

I know. I keep trying to stress the urgency to Alex to, like, keep his eyes very much peel. Is it in the house somewhere? I don't know. We hope. I know. Living with he must be so hard. He can't go now.

Bet you wish that things had progressed further with the guy on the train. Does he even, like, bat an island, like, if you're, like, I've lost my wallet. Is he just like, yeah, okay, cool? He helped me look for it for a bit. I think he has got somewhat desensitised to it. I think he's reached a level of apathy now. What made me laugh is when you went to, he went to like a house party or something and you just came back without your entire bag. Oh yeah, I went to a birthday party, yeah, I forgot my bag. It's not like, I don't know, like you could leave. I had everything. I know, like, it's just

your entire bag. Like, how could you need that? I know, had my passport. I had my wallet, and my keys, had, like, loads of stuff for Arlo in it, had my air pods. Yeah, everything. All gone. Lept lipstick. And it's not like on the way at some point, you were like, oh, shit, my bag. No, no, you got all the way home. Yeah, then Anna rang me and she's like, you left your bag.

Oh, so you didn't even note. No, I can't. I can't. It would have taken me probably four or five days to notice that that had gone. It's so bad. People said to me a lot before I had Arlo, because I am, like, out the house with, like, nothing. Like I occasionally take a key, but very rarely. Like I mostly take my phone in AirPods at a push, sometimes not even the AirPods, maybe just my phone. I'd like never take

anything when I, where I go anywhere. And when I had Arlo, everyone was like, well, that'll change, you'll be like a pack. No. No. Nothing. No. Nappy. No. No, we take nappies. I take nappies, napes wipes and it's a change of outfits. Yeah. And then I always keep a pair of spare baby socks with my pockets because she just doesn't like wearing socks. She just pulls off all the time. Okay. And that's it. Yeah, I mean, I keep as a matter of principle, like a spare little coat for her and a hat

and stuff on the bottom of the buggy and the rain thing. But that's all kind of packed in there all the time. So when it comes to leaving the house, I just have to walk out the door. Like, I don't have to be like, oh, where's everything? Because everything's just there. And if anyone's fucked with my system, like, if Alex is like used nappies or whatever or use the spare outfit and not replace it, then I have to kill him with my bare hands. That drives me nuts.

It's so annoying. That, when Dave takes my dog poo bags. Yeah, because you know where they are. Because, oh, I keep dog poo bags in the buggy bag as well. That really, really wound up. Yeah, because funnily enough, happened the other day. And then Boob did a poo and I was like, what the fuck am I going to do now? Take them, but replace them.

Because I leave them in the back left pocket of the buggy bag. That's how the system works. Yeah, so rude. So, yeah, it's organised chaos. Like, it does make sense, the system. Yeah, I mean, like, you always turn up to places. I'm always here. I always, always, always.

Always get my work done. I'm never really late. Like, unless something's gone really wrong, I went through a stage with Arlo where everything was a bit chaotic. But I'm back on time. I was early this morning. Yeah. Did forget to write my metro column, which isn't great.

That's not ideal. But generally speaking, everything gets done and on time. Deadlines in journalism are there to be pushed. Pushed. Yeah, exactly. You're fine. Exactly. And also, I've been doing it for like months.

I've done it since July. Since the first time it's happened. Yeah, it's fine. So, but generally speaking, yeah, I'm incredibly, this is why I'm. I think Alex doesn't mind living with me is that he's like, it's not my system,

but it does work. Like he's like, it all gets done and he says, you are very organised, just not in a way that I can relate to. I feel like, I feel like he is like this. Straight line.

And then he gets there. Yeah. And then you'll be like this. But you'll get there. Like barbed wire, yeah. Yeah. I mean, you might injure yourself along the way. Uh-huh.

And you, and you might injure him. And you might injure him. Yeah. But you get there. But I get there. That's fine. That's all you need to do.

You just need to get that. 100%. And I, yeah, and I might lose some things along the way. Like my wallet. That is very annoying. I've just sorted of a new card. Not,

I haven't cancelled my other ones. I literally have to start a new bank account. I've got an Amex. I was like, it's time to grow up. I know. I know, because I have to book something. And I was like, I haven't got any money

because my card's not working. So I just, instead of doing anything about the missing wallet, I just got a new one. A new bank. Can't. Sure. It arrived this morning. Pray for them everyone. Oh, this next one. Yeah. The nail tech holding your hand. Oh, when they're doing the little massage at the end. No, even the whole way through when they have to, I distinctly remember once when, okay, so say they're doing your

fourth finger, right? And you don't want your pinky to, to like rest on them. I remember this. I didn't want my pinky to rest on her because that felt intimate and weird. So I held my pinky up but then my pinky started to violently shake and I was like willing it with all my mic, stop shaking, stop shaking, but it was violently shaking. Do better. And she just looked up at me and said, are you okay? I was like, sorry, I just don't know where to put it. She just put it down on her hand and it stopped shaking and it was horrible. I don't know where to put it. Where else would you put it. But you know what you mean? When you rest it on their hand, then it becomes, it becomes intimate. No, that doesn't bother me and I don't know why. Does it not? No. I would have thought,

I agree, because I'm not, I'm not a toucher, so that is odd. Yeah, I don't seem to mind. I just feel like it's means to an end. Also, my friend, he does my nails. So it's like, we're buddies. You used to her. Or, okay, got another one. When someone's doing a mass, when you're having a massage, and they go down your arm and then they link, they link hands with you. I think, That feels quite beautiful in a way. I feel like Rose and Jack on the Titanic and they're having sex. I'm like, I'm going to weave up.

Oh my God, the hand goes up. Yeah. Yeah, then there was another point where they... They're linked, yeah. Yeah, I love that for them. Yeah. And for me and... Well, I love that for them, but...

It's not for me and... It's one very random, I don't know. It's one of stranger. I don't know. It feels awkward. I get that. Okay. We're going to have to...

This is in two parts. This is going to have to be in two parts. 100% this is in two parts. Because we've... got through about four and there's a lot. Okay, applying sunscreen for someone. I make myself so busy at the beginning of the day on a holiday. I'm like, oh, got to go. I'll put Arlos on and I'll do Alex's and that's about as much as I'm interested in. Someone you don't know. No, I don't want to do it for my friends. But like, someone you don't know that well.

Touching their bare skin. Yeah, like, I don't know, your friend's boyfriend or whatever, It's like, talking about, no, burn. Absolutely not. Leave me out of this. I couldn't, I wouldn't. It's got nothing to do with me. Especially their back's hairy. I don't want to touch it.

And I was, yeah, yeah. I don't mind, hmm. I feel like I do a lot of people's sun cream. Maybe I don't mind it that much. But I don't have the idea of it. I certainly don't want to. I really don't want to. Yeah, fair enough.

I don't even think. Would you do mine? I do your back, yeah. What else will I want? I think I'm definitely more inclined to do women than men. Yeah, me too. Probably because we're less hairy, generally. Yeah, exactly.

And I don't know, there's something too intimate of it. It is quite intimate. Yeah. Even Dave, I don't want to do Dave. I tell you what gets weird when you do a man. And it's like even like doing my brothers or whatever. It's like you can do the shoulders. No biggie.

Back of the neck. Fine. Lower back, fine. But then it's like, what happens when you get to like the waistband? Yeah, yeah. How low do you want me to go? because if I'm doing Alex's, I want to be thorough, right? So I'll just go to the top of his butt cheeks

so that if his trousers move a little bit, we guarantee protection, yeah. Yeah. But I don't want to get down someone else's trunks. So I'm like, I'm just not going to do the job properly. You know what I mean? So just do it yourself. Do it yourself.

I mean, they can't do it themselves. I guess that's the whole point. But you can do yourself. People just don't try hard enough. If you stretch and limber, I can do, maybe it's because I'm hypermed ball, but I can reach my own back. I can't.

I definitely can't at the moment. There should be, no. I'm struggling to wash myself. Why? There should be like a rolling paint brush. Well, you could just... Well, there's one for fake tan. Well, then why don't we just use that for sun cream?

We should. We definitely should. I think it's about time we all became a bit less codependent. But then you can't draw a penis in someone's back with sand cream. You could do it on your own. You could try. Yeah. I've never used the fake tan thing.

I've got one at home. I've never used it. Mainly because I can't bother. No one ever sees my back. But anyway. I don't think I've ever seen your back. It's not like right. Of course I've seen your back

because I've seen it off of your butt crack. Oh, you have? Yeah. My dodgy butt crack. Yeah, your weird bum crack. God, yeah, I bet loads of sun cream falls down that. Collects in the bottom. Like a little goblet.

Gross. Moving on. Oh, okay. Multiple people said having an eye test. Emma said, when the optician lowers the lights and then hopers one centimeter from your face. Yeah, that's horrible. That's giving me, like, funny feeling.

I concur. That's horrible. Funny enough, I had an eye test last week. Yeah, it is quite intimate. Good news? Bad news? Bad news? It's bad news.

It's always bloody bad news. My eyes are such a bummer. Oh, they? You know, I had operations on them when I was little. Oh, yeah. I had one on one eye, one on the other, so I had an operation on each eye because I was born. Well, I wasn't born, but I developed a very bad squint because I was totally boss-eyed. Love that for me.

and then had the operations fine but then my eyesight's not very good but it's weirdly it's plus 2.5 which is that unusual normally and particularly with contact whereas it's like minus so I don't order my contacts in you can't see in front of you I have to have it fit everything

I just can't say anything really like far away all close up oh really yeah I don't know why anyway but my main problem is my stigmatism so my stigmatism is getting worse my prescription stay is pretty consistent pretty stable what's your prescription plus 2.5 Plus 2.5, okay. So yeah. Yeah, but then, yeah, my statement is inside.

So basically I just have to wear my glasses and my contacts more than I want to. Which is fine. Anyway, had an eye test. It can be quite intimate. It is intimate. It is intimate. Yeah, love that for me. And the whole test that they go through, which one?

I always panic. Which one's blurry. And I'm like, I honestly don't know. It's like splitting hairs at this point. I don't know what you want from me. And how bad did you really need to know this? And it's like, can you read that line? And I'm like, give me time.

Yeah, I can probably do it. Is it easy? No. And then you sit there like, and they're like, you don't need to squint and it's like, well, then I can't do it. I hate this. There's got to be a better way. Do you know what I don't like as well?

That they don't tell you if you've got it right or wrong. I know. Is it a P or an F? I know. And you say, and you think like, okay, it's an F. And you'll never know. No, you won't. Well, unless you go up at the end and like, yeah.

So funny, actually, I remember so much of like when I was little, and I had to have those operations. And I remember the all the tests that they used to, You know the thing, like the little thing that they put in front of your eye and then they, like, they block one eye. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they do it all with machines now, but they used to have it. There's like a little postman pat on a stick and that was what they was used to stop. And it's really weird, like what I can remember from my operations when I was little.

That must be horrible as a kid having operations on your eyes. Yeah, I think it was more horrible for my parents. Yeah, that's quite strange. Because I watch Arlo like a hawk now. I'm like, are those eyes all right? Like, are they going in? Because sometimes, but then kids just sometimes. Did you a brother and sister have one?

No. Just you. But mine still comes back. Like, now, when I'm tired, yeah, I still get my squint at my right eye. But so you just developed it? You weren't born with it? I think I was, but basically your muscles are very loose when you're a baby. Okay.

And then they get, like, they're supposed to be able to focus and I just couldn't. And then they operated on one eye. Because I don't really understand it, but they couldn't really work out where it's coming from. They operated basically on, not the wrong, well, yeah, on the wrong eye. So then they had to do the other one as well. so yeah bloody hell I know

you've got so many operations on my face like what's wrong with my face like why have my eyes and my jaw like how annoying is that like an operation on each eye and a broken jaw like that seems like quite a lot

it's unnecessary definitely yeah recipe greedy physical health yeah I know I've I really stressed myself out with it it's like

one or two would suffice yeah but also isn't it kind of funny that I've had like these huge like three big operations on my face and you wouldn't really You know? Do you look at me?

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. There's no scars. No, science is like that. My God. That's really good. Yeah, isn't it? I think I'm going to get laser eyes. Well, the optician keeps trying to, they keep giving me leaflets about laser eye surgery.

I mean, my mom and dad both had that it done. My dad worked really well. My mom so badly. Okay. It like prompted something. Oh. Oh, okay. I don't want that.

For like these epithelial cells or something to grow. Oh, no. So they just started like rapidly grow. Yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't good. but I think for the majority of people it's amazing right it's like it can be like life changing yeah my dad keeps being like no you've had enough on your face

like I can't handle the stress of worrying about you and like worrying about your eyes again and like I'm like yeah but then I won't have to wear contacts every day or glasses every day that'd be nice like he's wake up in the morning see shit that'd be cool yeah can they get rid of the stigmatism or does that not work I actually have no idea I don't know anyway I agree optician is intimate and I have to spend way too much time there so I'm with you

opticians are intimate we've got so many more intimate moments We'll do them next week. Part two. Thank you guys for listening. Love you loads. See you next week with more horrible intimacy. Bye. Thank you so much for listening.

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