Nice Côte d’Azur airport has an area called “Kiss and Fly”. It is, in fact, just a quick drop-off zone outside the terminal building, but the very name “Kiss and Fly” conjures up the image of a headscarfed Grace Kelly bidding adieu from the wheel of the drophead Sunbeam to a departing Cary Grant, about to board the evening Constellation for Idlewild.
Today we hear that Warrington Bank Quay railway station has established “kissing” and “no-kissing” zones, to avoid unreasonable delays to passengers. A spokesman for Virgin Trains said:
“It’s just a quirky thing; it’s nothing more than that. It’s a light-hearted way of getting the message across.
“We are trying to tell people not to wait too long in the drop-off, but we don’t mind people waiting there for a short time.”
I’ve been to both Nice Côte d’Azur and Warrington Bank Quay. I don’t think Grace Kelly would linger long in Warrington.
I Got told this when staying at the Village Warrington hotel and I thought it was a wind up until I got to the station. It is true and absurd.