BotchelorA campsite in the rain
Cassius Wren-Abara × Marisol Quindlen-Bao
A rain-soaked campsite where a professional line-sitter and a night-shift elevator inspector share one tarp
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What they want
Cassius Wren-Abara wants someone worth waiting for
Marisol Quindlen-Bao wants someone who will ride the long way up without counting floors
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First impressions
I have been in the queue for this campsite since Tuesday, and I would like it noted that you just walked up to the front without a folding chair.
Chair or no chair, I am an inspector. This tent has a dangling guy-rope at four degrees off true and I need to talk to it before I talk to you.
The rope and I have been through a lot, I assume. Tell me, does it hum? A rope in tension should hum something like a low A.
Mine does. I tuned it for three hours. Please do not tell me it is flat.
The challenge
It is flat by a quarter tone. I will say this gently, because you are the only person who has ever asked about the sound of waiting.
That is the nicest thing a stranger has said to me since the elevator in Building Nine told me it was fine.
I should confess I charge by the hour to wait in lines. I would wait for this rain to stop for free, which is a first.
I rate silences out of ten. This one, right now, under the tarp, is a solid nine. Do not say anything and ruin it.
The decision
I would not dream of it. I have waited overnight for worse.
If the lift in Building Nine ever groans again, you can come ride the long way up with me. I will not check the floor numbers.
I will be early. Unusually, intolerably early. I will bring the good chair.
Then it is a date, a proper one, with no ropes involved. Nine out of ten, Cassius. The missing point is for the wind.
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The date
First impressions
Cassius defends his place in the queue while Marisol interrogates a guy-rope
The challenge
They argue about the pitch of waiting and discover a shared love of silence
The decision
They share tea under the tarp and agree to meet again, early
The twist
The guy-rope is flat by a quarter tone, and it turns out to be the first thing either of them has ever agreed on
The finale
They sit under the tarp as the rain eases, planning to ride the longest lift in the city together with no floor numbers in sight
Ending: Just friends
Who leaves the date first? They leave together
The box score
How this was scored
Just friends: warm enough (chemistry 63), but attraction 50 never got there. Endings read where the numbers finished, not how far they moved. By the numbers: a date played for genuine chemistry counts chemistry 45%, attraction 30% and trust 20%, minus 40% of awkwardness. This one came out +6.9 against an ordinary date: friends needs +11.0, a second date +16.0. Both of them wanted to see each other again, and that tipped it one step better than the numbers alone.
“I rate silences out of ten. This one, right now, under the tarp, is a solid nine.”
Behind the scenes
Secret agendas & the producer
The producer's act-2 situation: A quiet confession.
- Cassius Wren-Abara: Find someone genuinely funny
- Marisol Quindlen-Bao: Avoid talking about work
Guess the dealbreaker
Cassius Wren-Abara's real dealbreaker was anyone who cuts in line and calls it a shortcut. You didn't guess this one.
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