One family group got far too much information
A woman at a party told Chris about one of the most catastrophic wrong-message mistakes the show had heard.
She had recently had a Brazilian wax.
Wanting to show the result to her best friend, she took a photograph and sent it.
The problem was the recipient.
Instead of her friend, she had selected the family WhatsApp group.
The picture went instantly to relatives.
There was no useful way to retrieve it before people saw what had happened.
Scott and Chris knew immediately that the story required more examples.
Unlucky Gary had previous form
Scott remembered “Unlucky Gary”, a listener who had once accidentally sent Scott a very personal photograph which was intended for somebody else.
The image also happened to feature a Union Jack duvet, a detail Scott had apparently been unable to forget.
Other listeners admitted sending revealing or suggestive pictures to the wrong groups.
One person had photographed a scenic outdoor location and marked the exact spot where something intimate had happened, only for the annotated image to reach family members.
Another sent what looked at first like an innocent picture of snow by the window. When relatives enlarged it, they could see the packaging for a Lovehoney product in the room.
By that point the sister had already been forwarding the snowy photograph to other people.
There was also the classic online-selling problem of taking a product picture without noticing a naked reflection somewhere in the shiny surface.
The programme’s advice was less sophisticated than practical: inspect the whole photograph and inspect the recipient before pressing send.
Scott entered a royal honeymoon competition
The Royal Wedding was approaching and Scott had found a competition offering what was billed as a Harry-and-Meghan-style honeymoon.
The prize did not sound especially royal.
It included an all-inclusive hotel stay, a wristband, a fruit platter on arrival and a room with a partial sea view.
Scott entered anyway.
He became increasingly entertained by the idea that the real Duke and Duchess of Sussex might secretly choose the same kind of package holiday, complete with an ordinary resort wristband.
The show had already been following the unofficial Harry and Meghan television movie, and now Scott was effectively entering a tabloid competition to follow their honeymoon.
The Hurl Game returned
The programme also revived the Hurl Game, using old references and phrases to test whether listeners recognised things which had once been completely normal.
Items and memories included everything from holiday romances and ring binders to Napster and old television programmes.
The feature worked because some listeners instantly understood every reference while others heard what sounded like archaeological evidence from a different age.
Scott was also preparing to head to Lisbon for Eurovision with Rylan, giving the show yet another reason to practise phrases and imagine the kind of situations that might arise abroad.
May had begun with old relationship messages.
By Friday, the archive had moved firmly into the category of messages people wished had never existed.
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