A woman needs a ticket for a train It's in the olden days, when traveling across the country meant getting a berth on a sleeper car of a train. She arrives at the station, but finds the train is sold out; there are no empty cars. She is desperate to get a ride, so the ticket seller tells her there is one empty bed, but it is in a double with a man already there. Nonetheless, she buys the ticket and gets on the train. When she gets to the car, and explains it all to the man there, he is a bit surprised, but understanding. In fact, he volunteers to take the top bunk, to be a gentleman about it all. After a while, they both go to bed. The man in the top bunk starts to feel cold, so he says to the woman, ""say, it's colder than I thought. Could you hand me one of the spare blankets from down there?"" She thinks for a moment, then she says ""you know, we're here together in this car, and no one else knows it. We are traveling by chance together, but after tonight, we'll never see each other again. Why not, for just this one night, we spend it together as man and wife?"" The man is taken aback by this bold suggestion, but as the woman is quite attractive, and she has made a logical point, he agrees. Then the woman says, ""great, then get your own damn blanket"", as she rolls over and goes to sleep. (Heard it from Larry King on NPR)