The Cookie Thief
A woman was waiting at the airport one night,
with several long hours before her flight. She
hunted for a book in the airport shop, bought a
bag of cookies and found a place to drop.
She was engrossed in her book, but happened to
see, that the man beside her, as bold as could
be, grabbed a cookie or two from the bag between, which she tried to ignore, to avoid a
scene.
She read, munched 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 "Oh,
brother", this guy has some nerve, and he is also rude, why he didn't even show his gratitude!"
She has never know when she has been so galled,
and sighed with relief when her flight was
called. She gathered her belongings and headed
for the gate, refusing to look back at the
"thieving ingrate."
She boarded the plane and sank in her seat, then
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 with despair,
"Then 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!
~ BE HUMBLE OR YOU STUMBLE ~
INDEX
WELCOME
LINKS