A hughty 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.
MORAL
Those who jump before looking end up on head first in the shallow end. When you
jump to conclusions you often skip over the truth & sometimes it is too late to
make amends…….