Why you should never date strange men but why maybe you should meet one at the bus stop at 3am

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The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack
with five good news stories. Good news,

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the bus is not late. You're
in for a big surprise, you

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see. Rory met his girlfriend Charlotte
at a bus stop seven years ago.

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Have you figured out where we're going
yet? He thought it was the perfect

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place to ask her to get married. That's nice, But here's what Rory

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did. He put up a fake
timetable at the bus stop. They met

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at a bus stop near King's Crossing
in London seven years ago. They'd briefly

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seen each other once before the Mutual
Friends party, but only started speaking to

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each other at the bus stop.
After deciding was time to get married,

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Roy decided to do a call back
to their first meeting. At first,

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he considered building a bus stop himself, and then realized that's not the best

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idea, so he got his friend
a photoshop a fake bus timetable where some

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of the stations had been replaced with
the words Charlotte, seven years ago,

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we met at this bus stop.
Now will you marry me? I don't

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know why we needed that in there, it sounds a little aggressive. The

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timetable was titled Busses Towards the Future, Rory had sold the newspaper. Charlotte

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said, if he ever proposed to
me, he can't be in public,

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which was a bit of a problem
because public transport is very public. Oh

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wait, there's more. So his
plan was to get Charlotte to the bus

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stop at three am on a Saturday
morning, where there wouldn't be that many

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people, but there were some drunk
people reading his timetable when they got there,

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so he was worried that that might
spoil the surprise, so he took

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her to McDonald's. He checked the
buses on his phone when he saw one

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had just left. Then he took
her to the bus stop and he asked

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her, oh, which bus did
we get seven years ago when we met.

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While she was checking it, I
got down on one knee behind her

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with the ring and she saw her
own names, wore a lot in confusion,

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and eventually said yes. Not knowing
about any of this, Twitter user

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bbcnula tweeted, I went to take
the bus today. This was inserted in

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the time top at the bus stop. What happened, Charlotte? I need

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to know. Charlotte did have one
criticism. Rory had the bus in his

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fake timetable going in the wrong direction. He meant to have the US going

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north, but she noticed it was
heading south and wondered if that's a bad

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premonition. They're gonna get married in
North London later this year. Changi Airport

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has been dubbed the world's best airport. Why. It has an amusement park,

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a rainbow waterfall, trampolines and an
indoor forest. So it's slightly better

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than Newark Airport, is what you're
telling me. It has the world's tallest

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indoor waterfall, dubbed the Rainvoortex.
Families can also enjoy an indoor maze.

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Oh, families can enjoy an indoor
maze at Newark Airport, believe me.

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A huge indoor forest with exotic plants
and topiaries including animal themes, of prizes

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for children to find, and a
canopy bridge walkway above the terminals he can

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take in views of the attractions.
There's a butterfly garden. There's a Discovery

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Slide, a huge sculpture where grown
ups and kids can slide down. There's

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a heritage zone where shops have vintage
facades. They feel like if stepped in

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a nineteen thirty Singapore Live theatrical performances
sounds awesome. Hey, good news.

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Olive. She's a hundred and has
shared the secret to living to be one

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hundred. He says, the secret
to living ten decades is not speaking to

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strange men. Avoid talking a strange
men. He'll be just fine. I

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think that's the best advice I could
give. Be happy and content, to

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be alive, and make the most
of what you have. I walked out

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on a first date because he didn't
like dogs. It's a deal breaker.

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And wow, I didn't even plan
this, she says. I've spent some

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time living overseas. My favorite place
to live was Singapore. I loved it

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there. I guess she liked the
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Louis the fourteenth, the Dancing King
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