The Cookie Thief. Author unknown.

[Cliff Rogers]

A woman was waiting at an airport one night,
With several long hours before her flight.
She hunted for a book in the 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... 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??

[ernknot]

She's in front.

[Grunt]

This was a story told by Douglas Adams of Hitchhikers Guide fame. Apparently it happened to him at a railway station. Of course he could have stole it.

[Cliff Rogers]

This was NOT a joke.

Why is it in here now?

[Christopha]

Everything you post Cliff is either laughable or somewhat suspect isn't it???

[Cliff Rogers]

Only if I'm refering to you mate.

[sea dragon]

With my usuak luck, even though I was letting her share MY cookies, I reckon she would not hold back and I would cop a black eye or worse.
You know, "Experience is the name I give to my mistakes".

[Cliff Rogers]

...."Experience is the name I give to my mistakes".

Not here again. :eek:

( not the one for the job interview, the one on the broom )