The Cookies

You must have seen it in ads but have you learnt the lesson it taught. Go through
it…..
A woman was waiting at an airport one night, with several long hours before her
flight. She hunted for a book in an 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 sitting beside her, as bold as could be.
He 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, and 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?