Unmasked

MASKING KISSING 

Mrs Panic Button realised that New Year Kisses have turned into a nightmare, thanks to the masks coming in the way. While taking a masked walk in a park recently infested with 'lovebirds,' she observed how masks are posing a greater trouble than condoms in the way of expression. After all love can be expressed only by touch, or is it also through words? Who knows. She suddenly stumbled upon a cute teen trying to kiss her boyfriend and post the Kissing Selfie on Instagram. Unfortunately, the young man was more focussed and did not allow to wish to be on the social media crowd on his basic instincts. He was gleefully, pushing his hands down the girl's supple thighs and while looking down, the mask that was dangling from his beard fell on the dirty walking tracks. Non-chalantly he picked it and put it back on his face, below the nose though.

Mrs Panic Button almost fell to the ground trying to stop the young man from even touching the dirty mask, let alone put it on his face. Her science-wired brain by then started calculating how many thousands of viruses, let alone COVID could be taking refuge in that dirty mask. But before she could control her step and save herself from a foot fracture by stumbling down, the teenage girl finally could set the right kissing click without the mask and successfully uploaded the same.

The difficulty in kissing while the masks were on, or dangling from the neck or even crushed in one's dirty hands became quite evident to Mrs Panic Button. She for one thing had stayed away from her husband for months since the beginning of the Pandemic and had warned the office going husband that he cannot share the bed with her! Even once on her birthday, when he wanted to kiss her, she had put on a N95 mask quite tight on her nose, and her husband unfortnately could not even find the lips. So he left just a peck on the cheek. Mrs Panic Button had instantly explained why this Masked Kissing was far more important to keep the duo healthy, however the husband was really having his hormones worked up and wondered when he could get back his normal sex life.

Yet, he remembered how on such a birthday he had met Mrs Panic Button, who herself was a college girl then and how they got married early and how his wife explained the entire process of fertilisation on their first intercourse. Hence the husband was used to the scientific explanations of every emotion, though he understood only the sense of touch. Hence he is left wondering this New Year if Omicron will be a little kind to him so that Mrs Panic Button sheds her panic and allows him a Maskless Kiss!

Here's to a Maskless Kissing New Year, hope that day arrives soon!