Q. Any more tips on how a lonely bachelor can improve his social life? Your recent advice that I should send out a round-robin email saying ‘I’ve had the all-clear’ backfired. I did get loads of calls but many of them were from people who assumed I had been suffering from an STD.
— E.W., London
A. Nevertheless, the response has proved my theory that, as a single, good-looking and solvent man, you are bound to be in demand and that as such people will welcome having an excuse to ring you up. Try another method of giving them one which was recently used, inadvertently, by another bachelor, who said yes to an email asking if he would recommend a new cab-calling service he had used? Tommy Tucker (not his real name) did not scroll down before replying, and had not realised that saying yes would give the company the green light to ‘harvest’ all the email contacts in his phone.
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