"A Little Kiss"

By Vijay Kumar

An inspector was escorting a commissioner in a train. Opposite them sat two women. One was a very wealthy and sophisticated 60 year old lady who was decked out in the finest of jewellery. Next to her sat a beautiful young woman, nineteen years old--who looked like something right off the cover of a fashion magazine. As these four travelled, they talked and chatted about trivial things until they entered an unlighted tunnel, and there they sat in complete darkness and total silence, until the sound of a distinct kiss broke the silence; following the kiss a loud slap could be heard throughout the cabin. In the ensuing period of silence the four strangers sat quietly with their own thoughts.

The older lady thought, "Isn't it wonderful that even in this permissive day and age there are still young women who have a little self-respect and dignity?"

The young woman, shaking her head and greatly puzzled, asked herself, "Why in the world would any man in his right mind want to kiss an old fossil like that when I'm sitting here?"

The Commissioner, rubbing his sore face, was outraged that any woman could ever think that a man in his position would try to sneak a kiss in the dark.

And the Inspector, grinning from ear to ear, was thinking, "What a crazy and mixed up world this is when an Inspector can kiss the back of his hand and then smack a Commissioner in the face and get away with it!"