[00:00.00]A woman was waiting at an airport one night,
[00:03.20]with several long hours before her flight.
[00:06.42]She hunted for a book in the airport shops,
[00:09.72]bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop.
[00:13.42]She was engrossed in her book but happened to see that the man sitting beside her,
[00:18.87]as bold as could be,
[00:20.41]grabbed a cookie or two from the bag in between,
[00:23.90]which she tried to ignore to avoid a scene.
[00:26.95]So she munched the cookies and watched the clock,
[00:30.46]as the gutsy cookie thief diminished her stock.
[00:34.51]She was getting more irritated as the minutes ticked by,
[00:38.99]thinking, ¡°If I wasn¡¯t so nice,
[00:41.48]I would blacken his eye.¡±
[00:43.37]With each cookie she took,
[00:45.56]he took one too.
[00:47.09]When only one was left,
[00:49.40]she wondered what he would do.
[00:51.57]With a smile on his face,
[00:53.40]and a nervous laugh,
[00:55.00]he took the last cookie and broke it in half.
[00:58.47]He offered her half,
[01:00.05]and he ate the other.
[01:02.00]She snatched it from him and thought... oooh, brother.
[01:05.47]This guy has some nerve and he¡¯s also rude.
[01:09.07]Why he didn¡¯t even show any gratitude!
[01:12.12]She had never known when she had been so galled
[01:15.75]and sighed with relief when her flight was called.
[01:19.12]She gathered her belongings and headed to the gate,
[01:22.95]refusing to look back at the ingrate thief.
[01:26.00]She boarded the plane,
[01:28.19]and sank in her seat.
[01:29.83]Then she sought her book,
[01:31.93]which was almost complete.
[01:33.89]As she reached in her baggage,
[01:35.55]she gasped with surprise.
[01:37.83]There was her bag of cookies,
[01:39.90]in front of her eyes.
[01:41.55]If mine are here,
[01:43.39]she moaned in despair,
[01:45.27]the others were his,
[01:46.76]and he tried to share.
[01:48.44]Too late to apologize,
[01:50.64]she realized with grief,
[01:52.60]that she was the rude one, the ingrate, the thief.
[01:56.65]How many times in our lives have we absolutely known
[02:00.91]that something was a certain way,
[02:03.00]only to discover later that what we believed to be true...was not?