An Experiment

The London ‘Tube’, a survey says, is the place where majority of Londoners fall in love. Creative pick-up lines such as, “I forgot which way I was going, which way are you headed for”, abound. Other than a place to build your repertoire of pick-up lines, snooze and make up for incomplete sleep, or a thousand other activities that travellers do, it is also the hatching ground for love, young or old. Having said this, the obvious question is ‘why so?’ And the obvious answer is how else do you expect human beings of opposite sexes (and same sexes for the differentially endowed) to behave when put together in a room on wheels, the doors to which open at long intervals and from which you will not walk out, unless it is your preferred destination. So, obviously people fall in love, travelling the same route, with the same faces and at the same time.

The same logic perhaps holds true for ‘office romances’, touted as the most ‘in’ thing of modern work hours. So, basically when two people spend quite some time together, there is a high probability of the possibility of their falling in love.
Now, suppose as a matter of research, spouses (not swapped but ‘officially’ own) are placed together, under congenial laboratory conditions, can same results be assured? If so, then what an ingenious way to bring that glow back in marriages that has lost their shine from over-use or under-use! The only point, however, is if only spouses agree to be put together.