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.

How many times in our lives,
have we absolutely known
that something was a certain way,
only to discover later that
what we believed to be true ... was not?

There are 4 things you cannot recover

The Stone....After the throw
The Word.....After it is said
The occasion...After it's lost
The Time.....after its gone.

Fabulous!

Thanks for sharing!

PGA

Thanks for the thought provoking story!

Talk about jumping to conclusions. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> Wow!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

L.

Wow, I hadn't read that one yet. I was totally surprised by the ending. Kept thinking it was going to turn out to be Jesus she was begrudgingly sharing the cookies with. LOL

It is a good reminder. It reminds me I need to work on my words, as in DJ's.

Thanks!

My first post. Thank you for that.

Sorry you are here.

I want to be that person one day. The guy by the way not the girl.

I would have probably made a total babboon's [censored] out of myself and demanded the man stop eating my dang cookies. I still have a lot to learn.

LMFAO.........wouldn't most of us.

Great story...great message...thanks so much for posting it.

Lori

I thought it was an absolutely fabulous message that is why I posted it.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> I would have ASSumed that he thought that I didn't need the extra calories and was trying to tell me in a passive/aggressive sorta way!!! And you think you have a lot to learn! HA! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Mrs. W<~~~TOO SENSITIVE!!!

I love the story. I gotta be honest though he would have been missing a finger if it was me.

Do not mess with my cookies.

Mrs. Wondering, I could stand to pass on the cookies, meself. However, I am with Frog on the messing with my cookies, hence the babboon's [censored] I WOULD make of myself. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Wonderful lesson.

Jeez, but I soooo woulda made a scene!

MAZ in airport..."Excuse me, who do you think you are? Obviously your mother didn't teach you any manners! Were you raised in a barn!"

Then I find my cookies...all of them, and pray to God to make me invisible....

Yep, I'll never learn!