The Sunday Funnies

It was a few days before Christmas. The airport was a sea of red and green, with loudspeakers playing familiar Christmas carols. A businessman, tired and somewhat grumpy, was ready to go back home. While checking in his luggage, right above the counter, he noticed some cheap plastic mistletoe hanging overhead.

With a considerable degree of irritation, he said to the attendant, "Even if we were married, I would not want to kiss you under such a ghastly mockery of mistletoe."

"Sir, look more closely at where the mistletoe is."

"Oh, I see that it's above the luggage scale, which is the place you'd have to step forward for a kiss."

"That's not why it's there."

"Okay, I give up. Why is it there?"

"It's there so you can kiss your luggage good-bye."