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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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.
This is an excellent poem…Wonderfully written and I love it so much…
Wow lol i think this is such a cool story
lol
Do not let the chain of love end with you. Learn to share joyfully.
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.
Cool story
Love it…we sometimes misjudge others and fail to examine ourselves first..it’s embarrassing but it’s true..
This is an awesome story……. I really liked it a lot.
Good story
Wonderful!
Really good
Very, very good poem. I love it. Hats off.
Lesson Learnt! XD
Very good poem with a HUGE lesson on misjudging people!!!!
Kudos to the Author!
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
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.
No words really good story.
Nice one.. i like it.. Sharing is best thing one can do..
Nice story! It’s a nice story about sharing and how nice a person can be
Yes, it is really a very good poem.
Wonderful work. Intelligent writer.
Brilliant, best story. I was finding a story for five hours for my holidays. I wish to meet the author once in my life!
nice
It is nice .. great.
Wow it was very weird for the lady she was eating the guys cookies
Speechless…
I laughed so hard at the end when she realized she was eating the man cookies. Too funny.
It’s really a cool story… It taught us to examine ourselves before judging others… !!!
Cool :p
Only thing I can say is Owesome story. Really appreciable and a fantastic lesson to learn from the man in the story. Thanx
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’
The man must be thinking… what a rude lady thief.
That was so funny, she was the thief. Ha, I wonder if she told that story to her family
Totally awsome
That was confusing in the end, but she almost went crazy on that gut til the plane.
Good
Very, very good…
Oh really nice!!! I am so thankful to the poet who write this. I want to meet him
Lol, what a funny story.
I really loved this poem <3
I love it! It’s the best story I have ever read!!! Literally!
Yah! so inspiring, you’ll learn something out of it!
It’s the most irritating truth of our lives.
Touching story, patience conquers everything and beside that sharing is caring.
Great work… it can really inspire others!
That’s right! Examine ourselves before judging others.
It was funny, and heart touching when thought seriously…. I am reading this piece of creation with my sister…we both enjoyed it…it is fabulous..
I like this because something of this kind happened to me sometime in the past…
Interesting, all of us should learn from this….
So funny…
Awesome story in moral stories which I liked.
Very helpful story.
It’s a really nice story…
Nice story. It’s a kind of story that wakes you up only to realize the wrongs things you have done.
Nice story
I can use this as my springboard for my next lesson..thanks to the author….
Thanks so much for the story :3 I’ll be using it in my oral test next week.. thank you!!!
Cool one
Pretty cool!!! I just shared to my officemates and then suddenly I realized it was a wonderful poem! Great==)))
Good. It is quiet cool, enriching. Thanks.
It’s sooooo nice.
Mmmmh so nice
Cool story.. I love it….
This is the very nice story which teaches us that we shoud share our things and not to be rude to anyone. Everyone is not bad and also teaches us not to be absent minded too!!!
lol ☺☺☺
Nice Story………
Thanks for the moral stories
Love it!