Picture the scene. A man walks into a bakery on a crisp Saturday morning, in search of a pain au chocolat. He is weary-eyed from the night before and in desperate need of his favourite pastry.
Except, after aimlessly scrolling through Instagram in the queue that always forms outside this particular bakery, he arrives at the counter to find they’ve just run out of pains au chocolat. “That lady over there took the last one,” says the woman behind the till, pointing towards a tall, willowy redhead, who is elegantly picking at said croissant, smiling at the man. They start chatting. She offers him half her croissant. And the rest is history.
