Four passengers were sitting together on a train: an Englishman, a Frenchman, a beautiful young woman, and an elderly lady.
Everything was perfectly peaceful until the train suddenly entered a long, dark tunnel.
A second later…
SLAP!
The sound echoed through the carriage.
When the lights came back on, the Frenchman was sitting there with a bright red handprint across his cheek.
Nobody said a word.
But inside their heads, everyone had already created their own version of what happened.
The elderly lady thought:
“That Frenchman must have tried something inappropriate with the young woman. Good for whoever slapped him!”
The young woman thought:
“Oh no! The Frenchman must have tried something with me, accidentally touched the elderly lady, and she slapped him instead!”
The Frenchman thought:
“That Englishman must have touched the young woman, and she slapped me because she thought it was him!”
Meanwhile, the Englishman sat there quietly, trying not to smile.
He thought:
“Well, that worked beautifully!”
Then he glanced at the tunnel ahead and thought:
“I absolutely cannot wait for the next one!”
