A woman was waiting at an airport one night, with several
long hours before her flight. She hunted for a book in the airport shops,
bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop.
She was engrossed in her book but happened to see, that the
man sitting beside her, as bold as could be. . .grabbed a cookie or two from
the bag in between, which she tried to ignore to avoid a scene.
So she munched the cookies and watched the clock, as the
gutsy cookie thief diminished her stock. She was getting more irritated as the
minutes ticked by, thinking, “If I wasn’t so nice, I would blacken his eye.”
With each cookie she took, he took one too, when only one
was left, she wondered what he would do. With a smile on his face, and a
nervous laugh, he took the last cookie and broke it in half.
He offered her half, as he ate the other, she snatched it
from him and thought… oooh, brother. This guy has some nerve and he’s also
rude, why he didn’t even show any gratitude!
She had never known when she had been so galled, and sighed
with relief when her flight was called. She gathered her belongings and headed
to the gate, refusing to look back at the thieving ingrate.
She boarded the plane, and sank in her seat, then she sought
her book, which was almost complete. As she reached in her baggage, she gasped
with surprise, there was her bag of cookies, in front of her eyes.
If mine are here, she moaned in despair, the others were
his, and he tried to share. Too late to apologize, she realized with grief,
that she was the rude one, the ingrate, the thief.
By Valerie Cox in “A Matter of Perspective”
Submitted by Tom “The Colonel” Parker
No comments:
Post a Comment