DATING THE TINDER WAY

believed strongly in discipline and corporal punishment. While there, I didn’t feel part of a working class minority, although a good two-thirds of my fellow students never contemplated staying in education past the fifth form. My suggestion that I might stay on to try A levels and university was met by my parents with rigid working class shock and disbelief. I was 16:

My school days were not the happiest, but they were an experience that taught me resilience and instilled the importance of education. Whilst sciences passed me by, good teachers nurtured and encouraged my love of English and literature and opened my horizons to possibilities that led to writing and journalism.

That’s what grammar schools did for me. And, right or wrong, I’m grateful. EOPLE of all ages think nothing of using dating sites to meet someone for friendship or romance. Tinder, a top company among the operators, claims: “It’s like real life, but better.” Which makes no sense at all. It has now been revealed that Tinder also has a secret service called Select whose membership is by invitation only.

Techcrunch. com says: “The common thread among those on the Select app is that they’re generally attractive and relatively highprofile.”

Like models, millionaires, socialites and the famous.

So that’s why my invitation never arrived.

Mind you, if it had, I would have been tempted to reply in the vein of the great Groucho Marx (pictured): “I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.”