Love in the library reached decision day
Listeners had become invested in James, the Exeter University student who thought he had been exchanging looks with a woman in the library.
Chris’s plan was deliberately simple.
James would draw a noughts-and-crosses grid, make the first move and slide the paper towards her.
In the ideal version, the game would begin without either of them needing a difficult opening line.
The problem was getting physically close enough.
When James first arrived, the library was busy and the woman could not find a seat near him.
He searched the building and eventually spotted her on another floor.
With rugby taking him away from the library for the following week, Scott and Chris decided there was no point waiting.
James had to go for it.
“Fancy a quick game of noughts and crosses?”
James prepared the grid and approached.
He asked whether she fancied a quick game of noughts and crosses.
“No.”
The answer was immediate.
There was no game.
There was no flirty smile.
There was not even enough hesitation to pretend she was considering it.
Scott and Chris immediately realised their supposedly low-pressure idea had actually forced James to approach a stranger with a fairly unusual sentence.
James took the rejection remarkably well.
Chris argued that she had only rejected noughts and crosses, not necessarily James himself.
Scott was less convinced.
Either way, one of the month’s most elaborate romantic strategies had ended in a single syllable.
Chris’s vegetarian detector worked again
The day also brought another demonstration of Chris’s strange Meat and Two Veg ability.
He listened to a caller discussing hobbies and football, then confidently declared him vegetarian.
He was correct.
The success strengthened Chris’s claim that he could somehow hear diet through somebody’s voice.
A nosebleed did not make it summer
Another listener claimed a superpower of his own.
He said he could detect the exact moment seasons changed because he suffered a nosebleed.
His latest nosebleed had occurred the previous Thursday.
Therefore, he concluded, Britain had entered summer.
Scott rejected this immediately.
It was still January and around three degrees.
The caller insisted that “the nose doesn’t lie”.
Scott maintained that the calendar probably had the stronger case.
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