Tick boxes don’t work, convenience doesn’t work, and getting two equally good-looking people in a room is no guarantee they’ll go for it. The answer is more random
I do not think this is a controversial opinion: if you have two friends who are single, have compatible sexual orientations and are roughly the same age, which is to say, within 20 years of each other, and one of them is not a proven Bad Idea, it is your duty to try to set them up. Mr Z thinks something completely different. I only discovered this when we were joined by a third party – let’s call her Miss Scarlett, as if it is a code from Cluedo – and we were matchmaking on speed, six or seven couples at once, planning the weddings from a standing start.
We would not have listened to Mr Z at all, were it not for the fact that, in one case, he was the only one who had met both candidates. “They’re quite different,” he was saying mildly. “They have quite different politics. They live miles away from each other. Isn’t that one still married? I thought the other one was moving abroad.”
