Blind Romance
Have you ever had a really terrible blind date? You’ve trusted your friend’s opinion and ended up with someone whose main area of interest is carp fishing (no offence to any recycling anglers out there). Well, I know I have. My most memorable being the person I met on a bus - you know, wooed by the chance-meeting, ‘oh isn’t London such a romantic city’ sort of blindness; we couldn’t speak to each other as I didn’t speak Portuguese and he didn’t speak full stop. He also came up to about my elbow (I’m quite tall though - that’s not a dig at short people - just my sitting down on a bus warped judgement). Well, anyway, here’s your chance to set all those bad memories aside.
The Laundry has gone all romantic this week and we thought we would offer up our newest recruit to our lovely customer-base, for a date (not as a sacrifice). By hooking up with Samuel Smith, The Laundry Volunteer and soon-to-be environmental master’s student you will also get the chance for ultimate fame in a write-up in the Laundry email next week. So our lovely volunteer Sam….
Sam is reasonably new to London and so hasn’t got a huge number of friends here - somewhere around 4.5 he says. He recently joined an ultimate frisbee club to keep himself in shape and also likes to spend his evenings strumming guitars. We have put a little photo of him on the website so you can see him.
So do you feel like doing something a little different this Tuesday night? Do you have 4.5 friends in London, and wanna make it 5.5?
If you, or someone in your office are aged between 18-24 and looking for a date with someone who’s just so fresh and so clean this Tuesday, please send us an email to recycle@thelaundry.biz with your answers to some or all of Laundry Man Sam’s mini-interview questions (below) and a photo by Tuesday at Midday. You can also ask Sam any questions you like too!
We will pick the winner and let you know by 3pm all in good time for a not-too-naughty-as-its-a-school-night date where you shall meet for a drink at 8ish and then go on to the classy Le QuecumBar in Battersea for an open-mic night of gypsy swing and jazz.
So here goes: -
1. (Just to warm you up!) Which is your favourite- a) The Blue Bag, b) The Orange Bag or c) The Stickers?!
2. What’s your idea of a perfect day?
3. Which album do you own but sneakily stash at the bottom of your CD rack?
4. What’s the best music act you’ve ever seen?
5. (The classic work- interview put you in the hot-seat question) How would you describe yourself using just three words.
6. Where in the world would you most like to live?
With love from Harriet, Sam and Gemma at The Laundry xxx
