A young-sounding guy called me and asked if I'd go to a naturist spa with him as his swinging partner. It sounded like fun, but it occurred to me that my fee wouldn't be secure. The staff keep the locker keys and give them to you when you ask, so it's not somewhere you want to bring valuables anyway and no-one would question my partner asking for my key. If I let him out of my sight at any point he could go and take back the money.

I told him that I wouldn't be happy having money there so I'd need to leave it with a friend in town and then go to the spa with him. He said he didn't want to do that and offered to give me half to give to my friend and the other half later. I said that wouldn't work for me.

He said he'd think about it and call this morning (the booking would be for this evening). I guess that means he's decided against it, although it's still early enough in the afternoon that he might call yet.

Have you been in or heard of a situation like this? Do you think he was trying to scam me or just worried I'd run off?

You wouldn't accept 'half now, half later' normally...

No, but it's possible that "later" meant when we got there.

It's Bristol Gardens. I've only been there once and it was a while ago, but I don't think we kept the keys with us. I may have misremembered though. Still, keeping a few hundred pounds in a changing room locker is never a great idea.

I got a text from the guy saying his dad's in hospital.