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Thu 22 Mar, 2007 07:55 pm
The Cookies
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,
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....ooh, brother!
This guy had some nerve and he's also rude,
why he didn't even show any gratitude!
She had never known when she 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 have we absolutely known that something was a certain way, only to discover later that what we believed to be true...was not?
Always keep an open mind and an open heart, because You Just never know you might be eating someone else's cookies.
This odd little story has been passed around for years. The first time I heard it I was in a bar in Amsterdam and the guy who told it to me acted like it happened to him. I believed him at the time, so I was surprised when on the plane ride back to the USA a man sitting next to me started to make conversation and within 5 minutes he was telling me this same story. He also played it as if he was the person to whom it had happened to. Since then
I 've had heard it from two other people, always people who I had just met and who seemed to want to make conversation. I've never heard the little moral ending before, but the story is basically the same. Urban legend gone legit?
I've heard the story before, too, but not in verses...
Pretty cool and very true...
Another version of The Cookies on Snopes
Another version of The Cookies on Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/safety/cookies.asp