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This is Steve Allen's A Little Bit Extra, leading Britain's conversation. You're listening to our

podcast of Steve Allen.

Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today, Wednesday, July the 27th.

I'd have an eye test yesterday. And the amount of people, I was sitting in the hospital waiting and people come in going, diabetic eye test, they're going just have a seat there.

Then what they do, they take you in. And there seemed seemed to get there was about 10 of them in there when I got there

but of course I made it quite clear that I was due to be seen first and so the woman comes out well she can't pronounce the name Stephen she has no concept of this

seriously I was sitting there in the end had to say'm sorry, what name are you trying to do?

Yeah, she couldn't do it at all.

She couldn't do it.

She had no idea how to, in fact, her English, her command of English was so bad.

Everybody that she came in and asked for is all going, I'm sorry, what name are you looking for?

It was really that bad.

Why she was there, I've got no idea. But anyway, so you sort of go in and they do the first thing, which is, you know, can you cover your eye up and then you do the other eye and do the thing.

And I was fairly okay on that thing.

And then they put drops in and then you have to go and sit and wait for 20 minutes while the drops take effect.

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