Roddy and Marion met at the Ubiquitous Chip over thirty years ago and were married three years later, ahead of Valentine’s Day here is their love story

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The Ubiquitous Chip is often considered Glasgow’s most romantic restaurant having been here for over thirty years.

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00:00 I had a quarter bottle of Erlanger's champagne in a plastic bottle.

00:03 Three champagne.

00:04 And I said, "Would you like some champagne?"

00:06 No expense there.

00:07 [laughter]

00:08 And the rest they say is history.

00:09 I'm Roddy and this is Marian.

00:11 I'm Marian.

00:12 [laughter]

00:13 Each of us was here on a Tuesday night.

00:16 I used to come with some friends and you used to come with some friends.

00:20 And this particular Tuesday I was in with one friend and we were sitting at the bar

00:26 and we were moaning something, whatever had happened.

00:29 And then you came over and said, "Let me buy you a drink."

00:34 So I was like, "Okay."

00:36 So and then I said to my friend, "I better buy him a drink.

00:40 I'm having a time."

00:41 So I bought a pint and put it on the table.

00:45 That's one version of it.

00:46 Oh, it's a start.

00:47 If you're looking at it from the other side, I wasn't in the habit of just going up to

00:51 people I didn't know and saying, "Do you want a drink?"

00:54 Oh no, sorry.

00:55 [laughter]

00:56 I had a friend whom I had worked with previously so I knew somebody to say hello to.

01:00 But I had said to my friend Davy that I was with an interesting looking girl up at the

01:03 bar there.

01:04 So he knew I was making my move.

01:06 So that was smart.

01:08 I bought her a drink and her friend.

01:10 So that was how we made the first contact.

01:12 We began to talk a little.

01:14 Then I took our pints back to our seats and you were sitting with your friend.

01:17 And so that was the opening move established.

01:21 And then when I bought the pint, you said to Davy, "I don't want another drink."

01:26 So they split it because I didn't buy Davy one.

01:30 And then that was the end of that until it was pretty much time to go.

01:34 So I said, "Right, I'm just going to knit to the loo."

01:36 So I went downstairs to the loo.

01:38 And anyway, that was fine.

01:40 Came back up.

01:41 And then the two of us and the two of you, it was closing time really.

01:46 So we just all got up to go together.

01:48 But, and I deny this for the rest of my life.

01:51 Davy said to me when she came back up from the loo, he said, "She didn't go down there

01:54 for a wee.

01:55 She just put it on her face."

01:56 So not true, ever.

01:59 And I still deny it 30 odd years down the line because it's just habits.

02:03 So if you wear lipstick, you just always put it on.

02:06 So she did put it on her face.

02:08 Anyway.

02:09 So we were just like saying, "Right, goodnight, goodnight."

02:10 We were leaving.

02:11 And then as we got to the corner of the lay, we're just kind of walking around the same

02:16 way.

02:17 My friend and your friend just vanished.

02:18 It was like the red arrows, they just disappeared.

02:21 They left us too.

02:22 It was like, "Where have they gone?"

02:23 And we looked everywhere.

02:24 And we were like, "That's really odd."

02:25 So then you walked me home and...

02:27 Well, we walked down to the bottom of the lay.

02:29 I found out that Marianne lived...

02:31 I was en route to where she lived.

02:33 So we walked around, we went up to my flat.

02:34 And I knew how to treat a girl well in those days.

02:36 Oh, I was blown away with this.

02:38 I had a quarter bottle of Erlanger's champagne in a plastic bottle.

02:41 Free champagne.

02:42 And I said, "Would you like some champagne?"

02:44 No expense there.

02:45 And it happened that she did like champagne.

02:48 So she drank it all because it was only that much.

02:51 And that was my first romantic gesture.

02:52 How was it?

02:53 A quarter plastic bottle of Erlanger's champagne.

02:55 And the rest they say is history.

02:58 Well then I walked around to where she lived, Marianne lived a bit further on.

03:01 We made a date to see each other again.

03:04 And that was it.

03:05 That was it?

03:07 And then three years later we were married on the anniversary of the day we met.

03:11 Because we met on a Tuesday and three years later it was a Saturday.

03:14 So that was perfect.

03:15 And so now every June 27th we celebrate two.

03:19 And this year it will be 35 years married and 32 years since we met.

03:23 And two girls later.

03:24 And two girls, yes.

03:25 We've both been regulars in here as well.

03:28 And we still come.

03:29 This is my pub.

03:30 This is my local.

03:31 So we still come here after all these years.

03:34 The girls, as you mentioned, we have them and they come here too.

03:37 So this is our local and we still come here.

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