The Cookie Thief 38 comments
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
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38 Responses to: The Cookie Thief
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James Rayburn -- 27 May 09 at 2:04 am
I’m an engineering and controls guy. I’m learning to have more appreciation for the arts as I get older, and this is certainly a beautiful work of art. This just made my day better than it should already be.
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Jay -- 4 Aug 09 at 7:10 am
This is an excellent poem…Wonderfully written and I love it so much…
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Clo..x -- 16 Oct 09 at 11:56 am
Wow lol i think this is such a cool story
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ndoumah -- 21 Oct 09 at 5:56 am
Do not let the chain of love end with you. Learn to share joyfully and
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arfaoui abdelhak -- 25 Jan 10 at 8:01 pm
This is the best poem i have ever read about misjudging people. We should not judge people for being bad or worse till we outweigh our judgement.Most of time we have the impression that we are right when wre are totally in the wrong.We should,therefore,not harry up in passing our judgement on people;we should not accuse them because they may be good people.
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sathya -- 4 Feb 10 at 10:06 am
cool story
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dodong -- 18 Jun 10 at 9:44 am
love it…we sometimes misjudge others and fail to examine ourselves first..it’s embarrassing but it’s true..
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kanika -- 3 Jul 10 at 9:23 am
This is an awesome story……. I really liked it a lot
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jas -- 12 Jul 10 at 7:12 pm
good story
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Dennis Tan -- 20 Jul 10 at 7:19 am
Wonderful!
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tas -- 20 Jul 10 at 12:02 pm
Really good
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ishika -- 6 Aug 10 at 1:01 pm
very very good poem i love it hats off
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Yean Thoong -- 7 Aug 10 at 7:16 am
Lesson Learnt! XD
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Angie Lollar -- 15 Nov 10 at 9:53 pm
Very good poem with a HUGE lesson on misjudging people!!!!
Kudos to the Author!
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Tyler H. -- 17 Dec 10 at 2:06 pm
That was pleasantly clever and brilliantly written. That tale will give me chuckles for the rest of the day! Oh the irony; well played, well played. X8D
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Fayaz -- 12 Feb 11 at 11:51 am
first I read it and I have to read it again when I realized that it was a poem. One has to look at it from different perspective. Good ending.
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Seshu -- 16 Mar 11 at 4:06 am
No words really good story.
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stallone -- 11 Apr 11 at 4:11 am
Nice one.. i like it.. Sharing is best thing one can do..
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miley -- 24 May 11 at 11:14 am
Nice story! It’s a nice story about sharing and how nice a person can be
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JONITA -- 18 Jun 11 at 1:53 pm
Yes, it is really a very good poem.
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Akhila -- 22 Jun 11 at 1:58 am
Wonderful work. Intelligent writer.
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Pranav Kapoor -- 22 Jun 11 at 7:02 am
Brilliant, best story. I was finding a story for five hours for my holidays. I wish to meet the author once in my life!
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isha sudan -- 9 Jul 11 at 11:29 pm
nice
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Joyce Padilla -- 15 Jul 11 at 6:13 am
It is nice .. great.
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Nathan Tan -- 21 Jul 11 at 1:01 am
Wow it was very weird for the lady she was eating the guys cookies
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TruColorz -- 5 Aug 11 at 6:43 am
Speechless…
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Mimi -- 11 Aug 11 at 1:53 pm
I laughed so hard at the end when she realized she was eating the man cookies. Too funny.
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Jeya -- 23 Aug 11 at 12:07 am
It’s really a cool story… It taught us to examine ourselves before judging others… !!!
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Maine -- 26 Aug 11 at 6:55 pm
Cool :p
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UMESH -- 1 Sep 11 at 10:39 pm
Only thing I can say is Owesome story. Really appreciable and a fantastic lesson to learn from the man in the story. Thanx
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Rajiv.singh -- 2 Sep 11 at 5:08 pm
Really great story…….. a very good example of the following saying ‘don’t come to a conclusion until you have proper knowledge of the situation’
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Timbukku -- 9 Sep 11 at 6:25 am
The man must be thinking… what a rude lady thief.
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Brandon Roberts -- 14 Sep 11 at 12:43 pm
That was so funny, she was the thief. Ha, I wonder if she told that story to her family
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Harrison Moore -- 14 Sep 11 at 12:44 pm
Totally awsome
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Lorenzo -- 14 Sep 11 at 3:40 pm
That was confusing in the end, but she almost went crazy on that gut til the plane.
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Balu -- 8 Oct 11 at 11:54 pm
Good
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Padmaja -- 16 Nov 11 at 9:26 am
Very, very good…
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Shasha -- 28 Jan 12 at 9:48 am
Oh really nice!!! I am so thankful to the poet who write this. I want to meet him