Room 101: Ross Samson – London Scottish scrum-half
I will do anything to get out of them or be as late as possible by staying in with the physio longer than I need to. Sometimes you have to do as many as three warm-ups per day and it breaks me mentally as they are so boring and repetitive. To be honest, for the first few months they are okay as everything is new and exciting, but by Christmas the monotony kicks in. The only time I find a warm up enjoyable is when the football comes out, but that doesn’t happen very often. Dave McCall, another former Stewart’s Melville pupil like myself, is the best footballer in the London Scottish squad
TRP verdict: Warm up? You need to chill out man. You’re out.
2. Other people’s holiday snaps
Why do people think you should be interested in seeing bad pictures of them on holiday? Couple’s holiday pictures are the worst: full of dodgy poses where they have tried to take a picture of themselves or have got some waiter to do it for them. Our hooker Adam Kwasnicki posted a load of pictures on Facebook the other week. Horrendous! ‘Like’, I don’t think so!
TRP verdict: Leave the Lonely Planet behind; it is destination Room 101 for you.
3. Answerphones
For some reason it takes me about five days to pluck up the courage to listen to an answerphone message so I let them all build up until the tape nearly runs out. Usually they are from my Mum asking me something totally pointless. Sometimes this really works against me as I miss important messages from my agent or from some of our RugbyRocks (www.rugbyrocks7s.com) partners. My feeling is that if things are important they will ring back or text. I hope I’m not alone with this irrational fear!
TRP verdict: What the beep! You’re out.
