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.
Send by Tim Cove
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