Fools who claim love at first sight

Trevor Davis

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After My best mate is adamant he has found the love of his life. He beamed this ridiculous claim when he entered the chip shop before a recent football game. We all meet in the same chip shop before a game to have a quick bit of food and generally mock whoever has done something stupid in the days prior. This time it was clearly going to be my best mate who exclaimed he was in love with a woman he'd met while shopping in the supermarket this week. Cue mad laughter from everyone and the odd jovial punch on his arm accompanied by more mocking laughter.

The story of how these two love birds met was even more amusing, but it was so stupid that I actually started to think this love at first sight nonsense might actually be true. He was wandering down the cereal aisle, which he usually bypasses with little attention, and decided he might pick up a box of some form of chocolate cereal. He picked up the pack and inspected it carefully, only for the pack to be slightly broken at the top - therefore emptying its contents entirely over the aisle floor. My mate tried to scoop up the little snack bits with his hands, but as he moved he crunched mountains of the stuff beneath his feet before finally succumbing to the newly slick surface and falling flat on his face.

At this point the lady, who he is now in love with, walked around the corner perfectly composed in her black raincoat and neatly organised basket. She stared at my mate for a while and put the basket down before rushing over to help. The cereal had been reduced to a powdery matter, which had now engulfed my mate's eyes and he was having difficulty seeing. Then the chocolaty sneeze arrived and a powder splatter shot out into the poor woman's face.

After all of this my mate persuaded this woman to give him her address so he could send some flowers to thank her for helping. He ended up wandering round to her work a few days later with flowers in hand and spotted her at a window of her office. He was looking better than before and this was apparently when the lightening bolt struck the two of them. He's meeting her parents next week and he won't be coming to football much now either, they're off on holiday!

This bizarre set of events has led me to think this theory of love at first sight really is possible. They're both very happy and things look promising. All after an embarrassing encounter with a box of cereal.