A pretty, well-dressed young lady stopped a taxi in a big square, and said to the driver, "Can you see that young man at the other side of the square?"
"Yes," said the taxi driver. The young man was standing outside a restaurant and looking impatiently at his watch every few seconds.
"Take me over there," said the young lady.
There were a lot of cars, buses and trucks in the square, so the taxi driver asked, "Are you afraid to cross the street?"
"Oh, no!" said the young lady. "But I said that I would meet that young man for dinner at one o'clock, and it is now a quarter to two. If I arrive in a taxi, it will at least seem as if I have tried not to be too late."