You know how in movies, if two people aren’t getting on they get stuck in a lift and work out their differences?
I’m just wondering, is that service available? I mean it doesn’t have to be a lift; could be locked in a room with a snake in it, or lost on the moors together, or accidentally sharing a car to Glasgow, you know that kind of thing… no?
The other thing that movies persuade you is possible is that you could tell them both that the other wants to meet them and set it up. They’re supposed to meet, roll their eyes, say your name and then laugh, before having a much-needed heart-to-heart.
But that wouldn’t happen either, would it? In reality, they’d both scowl and walk off, and then they’d both be individually mad at you for trying to manipulate the situation.
No, what’s needed is a good old situation they can’t get out of, and it has to happen by accident. You can’t set it up. It needs to be that lift, that snake-room, or that terrible trip to Glasgow.
Of course my old Italian teacher used to say it was a case of ‘knocking their heads together’. She had no time for hot-headed silliness. Though, a lot of time for Italian.
Anyway, I always used to stay out of that kind of thing.
Allora! Chiuso la bocca.
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