Maybe, I think, as he downs another whiskey sour in one gulp, I will have an epiphany. I will uncover the negative karma that led me to this experience. Maybe Bad Date would, like Ben on his date with Elaine in The Graduate, take me to a drive-in diner and reveal himself to be confused, sweet, and having an affair with an older woman. It's pretty painful to imagine my 63-year-old mother as Anne Bancroft with leopard-patterned lingerie, but no more so than any other element of this evening.

The first attempt to introduce an alternative public transport scheme to the Slovak capital city Bratislava was declared a failure one week after its launch.