I was walking down the street the other day and witnessed some quite strange chemistry between a couple.

They were in their mid 20s walking down the street. He was fairly well dressed and holding a bag in one hand and a cigarette in his half closed fist in the other hand. His girlfriend (?) was walking next to him, wearing white skinny jeans with black knickers that very clearly was shining through the fabric.

She was trying to hold his hand - the hand that he has closed around the cigarette. She keep holding her fingers over the back of his hand. At some moments letting go to another few second later almost trying to prise his fingers off the cigarette in order to entwine their fingers.

Really? He clearly "can't" hold your hand. 

The thing is - during the amount of time I was walking behind them on the pavement he would have had the time to smoke the cigarette, stubbed out the cigarette bud and grab hold of her hand. Clearly he was in no hurry to smoke it, so why doesn't he just put it in his pocket and hold his girlfriends hand?