Chris furnishes the house in the wrong order
Chris has moved into his new house but owns almost no furniture. He has no bed, sofa or chairs and has fashioned a temporary seat from a cardboard box. His first proper purchases are a dartboard and a barbecue, which he considers enough to provide entertainment and food.
Scott doubts that barbecuing can sustain him indefinitely and notes that the decision has not impressed Chris’s girlfriend. Chris is nevertheless pleased that the water works and believes the rest of the house can be completed gradually.
Socks, jumpers and Olympic rain
Scott reports from the Team GB fan zone at the former Olympic Park, where rain forced him to operate the DJ equipment through bubble wrap. Four years after the London opening ceremony, the same area is hosting fireworks, returning performers and a much less controlled British summer.
Chris then asks whether everybody identified lost school jumpers by smelling them. Several colleagues deny ever doing it, but listeners confirm that sniffing a pile of nearly identical clothing was a familiar method. The admission provides a possible origin for Scott’s suspicion that Chris enjoys smelling socks.
Lottie becomes Irish at work
Lottie involuntarily picks up other people’s accents when she feels nervous. At a job interview, an Irish receptionist greeted her shortly before the interviewer arrived. Lottie answered the first question in an extremely strong Irish accent, then felt unable to abandon it.
She got the job and maintained the false voice for four months. To protect the story, she researched Irish television, slang, places and names for imaginary relatives, building a childhood that had never happened. She has since adopted an Australian accent during a telephone interview and still runs away rather than explain the truth to her former Irish colleagues.
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