There are some kisses that you never forget. Not that they were necessarily so great, but sometimes unexpected and the surprise factor makes them even more memorable. This is a story of two such kisses.

When I was in my early 20s, I was working for a company on Long Island. It was a small company, and a few people liked to go out for a drink after work, or sometimes even spend the whole evening out at a bar or restaurant. I was working for a woman named Barbara at the time, who was only a year or so older than me. We didn't get along at first but then the VP of the group I was in cleared things up and we got along great after that. This girl was in the group of people that liked to go out, and she would always invite me to go out with them.

One of our main hangouts was a bar, now gone, called "North Landing". At the end of the evening, we would usually leave the bar together and get in our own cars and leave. Of course, the proper etiquette is to give the females a goodbye kiss. So there I was, giving my female boss a long embrace and goodnight kiss outside the bar. It seemed a bit strange to have that level of intimacy with my boss, but that was her personality. That situation made those goodnight kisses with Barbara even more memorable.

A second memorable kiss was outside the same bar one night. There was a group of people out that night, and I ended up sitting in someone's car next to a woman named Christine from the company who I didn't know and had not spoken to that evening. We were leaving and saying our goodbyes, and suprise, this woman who I didn't know, leans over to my and kisses me goodnight. It was a total surprise and a very welcome one. Getting a kiss from a stranger was a delight, and I think of it still today.

I think of those kisses sometimes when I drive by the location of that bar, and I took a picture of it today. These kisses happened on the corner of this intersection, where the old bar was then located.