Strangers on a train
A man boarded a train and sat opposite the only other occupant in his carraige, a woman whom he had never met before. As the train started moving, the woman, who did ont recognise the man, took a pen and a sheet of paper from her bag and handed them to him. He wrote something on the paper and returned it to her. The woman left the train at the next stop and threw the note away. At no time had they spoken to each other, nor had the meeting been prearranged. Why?
The answer:
The man was a TV celebrity; the woman a deaf mute. Because the man was chewing gum, she assumed he was saying something to her and gave him the paper to write her a note. He assumed she was asking for his autograph and signed the paper. As his signature meant nothing to her, she threw the paper away when she got off the train.
Did you work it out?
