I was sitting on the train, scrolling through social media and attempting to pass the time when I saw one of my friends had retweeted something from the Waterstones account – a joke about Pokemon, of all things.

I don’t know why, but the tweet made me guffaw so loudly that a few passengers nearby looked up. Still chuckling to myself, I replied: “Well I'm in love with whoever is manning the @WstonesOxfordSt account. Be still my actual beating heart.” “Pff, he's not that dreamy in real life,” Waterstones commented back. Figuring that I had nothing better to do, I replied once more (“booknerds > dreamboats #girlfacts”), but was met with silence. Never mind, I thought to myself. The exchange had successfully wasted ten minutes of my journey. I’d probably never hear from him again.

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