'I finally plucked up the courage to ask my work crush out on a date. What her parents did horrified me'

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When Ollie met Erika while working together at an Amazon warehouse in Bolton, he was immediately smitten. Though Erika initially disliked her “lout” co-worker, she eventually agreed to go on a date with him – but the pair got a little more than they bargained for.

Ollie and Erika arranged to meet one night in February. Just by chance, the date turned out to be Valentine’s Day. Join our WhatsApp Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link “Neither of us realised until a couple of days before, so it was far more intense than we’d bargained for,” Erika, 28, said.

When Ollie turned up at Erika’s Altrincham home to pick her up for dinner, he was met by a huge surprise. To his horror, Erika’s parents opened the door wearing their coats and shoes ready to go out with them. “It clicked – they had invited themselves to dinner,” Ollie added. “Erika’s face was everything I needed to know.

She clearly had no idea this was going to happen and felt so bad. I started to think I was going to be running some sort of gauntlet.” Erika said she was left so mortified she wanted the ground to swallow her up. “I couldn't believe it,” she said. “I thought to myself, 'well, there's no way I'm getting a second date after this’. “Once we got to the restaurant, we all sat down at the table like it was Lord Sugar’s boardroom.