Ban the Buss!

When the morning traffic began to pile up at the train station in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, the village elders decided that too many commuters were slowing things down by tarrying to kiss their wives goodbye. To curb such dalliance, the officials designated the area where cars pulled up as a "no kissing zone." They even devised what they deemed to be an appropriate sign: a diagonal red slash superimposed upon the image of a woman in curlers pecking her hatted husband. In the parking lot, away from traffic, the same sign minus the slash marked the "kissing zone" for the impetuous and the civil libertarians.

Banning the buss has made parting a sweeter sorrow. "Kissing is up 100%," says Assistant Village Manager Marjorie Emery. Reports Commuter Lawrence Rosskin: "I take a later train so my wife and I can linger under the sign a while." So popular are the signs that they must be taken down on Fridays and erected again on Mondays to keep them from being ripped off. The town has even taken out a copyright and plans to mass-produce the emblems on poster board at $15 a pair. Deerfield has just one more problem to solve. The congestion around the station these days is terrible.

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