Cosmopolitan UK — June 2017

COSMOPOLITAN · 25

*NAME HAS BEEN CHANGED. AS TOLD TO JOSIE COPSON. PHOTOGRAPHS ANTONIO PETRONZIO. HAIR AND MAKE-UP EMILY-JANE WILLIAMS. WITH THANKS TO THE HOXTON (THEHOXTON.COM)

It was my first

ever date with

someone from

an app and I was

feeling pretty nervous.

I spent the night gulping

down gin in an attempt

to appear calm, so ended

up getting really drunk,

talked way too much,

missed my last train

home, and had to stay

in a really expensive

hotel for the night – it

was one pricey date. But

on the bright side, she’s

now my girlfriend.

WATER WORKS

When I first moved to London, I’d

planned to meet my boyfriend for dinner,

but was so confused by the Tube I got

completely lost. I started hysterically

bawling and when I cry I sound like

Rylan when he got through to the

X Factor live shows. It was not pretty.

NATALIE*, 23, JOURNALIST, SOUTH-EAST LONDON

SEX TALKS The morning before a job interview, I’d been shopping for underwear. What

I didn’t realise was the carrier bag had ‘Sex! Sex! Sex!’ on one side. It broke the ice, at least,

when my interviewer said, “I don’t want to know what’s in there,” and laughed. But when he

proposed a tour of the office he was very pointed about storing my ‘sex bag’ in reception.

SMOOTH

OPERATOR

THOM, 30, CREATIVE

DIRECTOR, FARNHAM

POLLY, 24, WAITRESS,

KINGA, 22, BARISTA, HUNGARY BASINGSTOKE

WHILE INTERNING, MY BOSS

ASKED ME TO BUY SOME

FLOWERS. SHE GAVE ME HER

CARD AND PIN, BUT WHEN

I ENTERED IT AT THE CASH

POINT IT SAID ‘INCORRECT’.

I PANICKED, TOOK SOME

GUESSES AND BLOCKED HER

CARD. TELLING HER WAS HELL.

A NUMBERS GAME