In the early eighties, Jan was the Student Councillor at the local College of Further Education and I was working in Saudi Arabia.
One Friday evening, when I had arrived home on leave, she said she had a job for me. One of her students was going to a special function, but had nothing suitable to wear. Always willing to help out anybody, Jan had readily offered to lend the student one of her own dresses and had, true to form, 'volunteered' me to take a selection over to the student's address.
That's how I found myself driving to the other side of town with a boot full female evening wear and waiting patiently while the student -Adam! - picked out the one he liked best .....