TWO fathers are being forced socialise with each other because their children have made friends, it has emerged.
Despite having nothing in common, Ryan Whittaker and Jack Browne are reluctantly spending several afternoons after school and most Sunday mornings pretending to be mates.
Browne said: “My five-year-old daughter Emma said she’d like a play date with her classmate Sophie. I took one for the team and exchanged numbers with her dad at the school gates, even though he was wearing tracksuit bottoms.
“We now meet up in the park most weekends and I have to make small talk with the world’s most tedious man, pretending to be interested in ‘the darts’ or ‘the snooker’. If I was the sort of person who wanted friends, I wouldn’t have spent all my free time at uni in the computer science labs.”
Whittaker said: “Jack is the type of guy I would have completely ignored at school unless I was in the mood for some light bullying.
“When I asked him what he made of Liverpool this year he said that there seemed to be a lot of building work but that the Beatles exhibition was still excellent. I mean, what the f**k?”
Emma said: “I don’t really like Sophie but it’s so nice to see Dad put himself out there and make a friend.”
