5.

"I came within a hair's breadth of cheating on her. At after-work drinks in a group of about 10, a friend of a friend sat opposite me and gave me a lot of her attention, even when the whole group was talking. It escalated to her 'accidentally' knocking my leg with her foot and then keeping it there, which I didn't discourage. When the group left to walk to a club, she said to me that she wanted to go but lived in such-and-such part of London, so it would be a pain in the arse to get home in the early hours. I let her know that where she lived happened to be two stops from me on the Tube."

"'Well, how about that? Maybe we should leave now?' is the reply I remember getting.…