A stag weekend with the girlfriend’s dad
Chris had the afternoon off to travel to Berlin for his girlfriend’s sister’s fiancé’s stag weekend. The complication was that his girlfriend’s dad, Martin, was attending too, along with Martin’s large and potentially intimidating friend Big Joe.
Martin’s group email told everybody not to hold back merely because he was there. Chris could not decide whether this was sincere permission or an elaborate test of the man dating his daughter. He wanted to enjoy Berlin but knew that anything he did might travel straight back into family life.
Scott checks the rules
Against Chris’s express wishes, Scott called Martin. Martin confirmed that Chris could relax, then admitted that the usual promise about events staying on tour did not quite apply to him. He would be keeping an eye on Chris and agreed that the weekend was effectively a test.
Scott immediately called Chris at the airport and told him the opposite. He said Martin had been completely reassuring, there was no test and Chris should commit fully to the weekend. Relieved, Chris said the weight had been lifted from his shoulders and prepared to meet Martin in Berlin.
Only the audience knew that Scott had just supplied exactly the wrong advice. The prank created the main question for Monday’s Breakfast Show: what had Chris done, and had he passed?
Victoria, Lucy or somebody else?
Listener Marcus was a farmer, contractor and engineer who regularly visited a hardware shop. He fancied an employee who let him use the specialist trade counter and appeared pleased to see him, but she alternated between name badges reading Victoria and Lucy.
Marcus did not know her real name, and asking for the wrong woman by telephone could expose the whole situation. Scott tossed a coin, which selected Victoria, and told Marcus to call confidently, mention the special counter and ask her for a drink. Listeners suggested she might have forgotten her own badge, borrowed a colleague’s or simply enjoyed confusing the customers.
Greg and Dev together
Greg James and Dev formed a rare double act for Real or No Real. Their appearance came at the end of an era: the following Friday, Radio 1’s new Official Chart programme would replace Feet Up Friday. Scott was already looking ahead to Breakfast cover on Monday, while Chris was heading into a weekend whose actual rules had been deliberately hidden from him.
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