INSPECTOR’S BLUSHES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20280, 14 April 1934, Page 10

INSPECTOR’S BLUSHES.

Embraced and Kissed by Old Lady. A .tall, fair traffic inspector had an embarrassing experience while stationed on point duty at the intersection opposite the Majestic Theatre, shortly after 5 o’clock last night. A gaily-dressed old lady, in her seventies, and who evidently had dined well but not wisely, asked the inspector’s assistance across the busy streams of traffic. She was safely piloted over. Then, after a brief halt on the footpath, she wandered back to the inspector’s station. The inspector, thinking she was making a return trip, pro tested, but held up the traffic and beckoned her to continue. The old lady evidently misread the inspector’s intentions, for she suddenly tried to embrace him. All the inspector could do was to hold her at arm’slength with one hand and signal traffic with the other. Finally the inspector persuaded his admirer to return to the footpath, where she remained foi* some time rather disconsolate, waving and throwing kisses. The inspector’s blushes could be seen from the footpath. 1 The large crowd about at such a busy time of the day thoroughly enjoyed the incident. The inspector did not.