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**anjali2005** · 27th April 2005, 03:51 PM

A PACK OF BISCUITS

One night there was a woman at the airport who had to wait for
several hours before catching her next flight. While she waited she
bought a book and a pack of biscuits to spend the time. She looked
for a place to sit and waited. She was deep into her book, when
suddenly she realized that there was a young man sitting next to her
who was stretching his hand, with no concern whatsoever, and grabbing
the pack of cookies lying between them. He started to eat them one by
one. Not wanting to make a fuss about it she decided to ignore him.
The woman, slightly bothered, ate the cookies and watched the clock,
while the young and shameless thief of biscuits was also finishing
them. The woman started to get really angry at this point and
thought "If I wasn't such a good and educated person, I would have
given this daring man a black eye by now."

Every time she ate a biscuit, he had one too. The dialogue between
their eyes continued and when only one biscuit was left, she wondered
what was he going to do. Softly and with a nervous smile, the young
man grabbed the last biscuit and broke it in two. He offered one
half to the woman while he ate the other half. Briskly she took the
biscuit and thought, "What an insolent man! How uneducated! He
didn't even thank me!" She had never met anybody so fresh and sighed
relieved to hear her flight announced. She grabbed her bags and went
towards the boarding gate refusing to look back to where that
insolent thief was seated.

After boarding the plane and nicely seated, she looked for her book
which was nearly finished by now. While looking into her bag she was
totally surprised to find her pack of biscuits nearly intact. If my
biscuits are here, she thought feeling terribly, those others were
his and he tried to share them with me. Too late to apologize to the
young man, she realized with pain, that it was her who had been
insolent, uneducated and a thief, and not him.

How many times in our lives, had we known with certainty that
something happened in a certain way, only to discover later that it
wasn't true? How many times has our lack of trust within us made us
judge other people unfairly with our conceited ideas, often far away
from reality. That is why we have to think twice before we judge
others. Let's always give others the benefit of the doubt before we
think badly of them.

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**nirosha sen** · 27th April 2005, 07:31 PM

What a dash of cold water, this entire story was!! A reality check, Pa!! Yes, conceit can be such a disease when not held in check, Pa!!

Thank you for sharing that wonderful tale with us, Anjali

NM · 29th April 2005, 06:43 AM

Anjali....thanks for this one, too... it's beautiful and it makes us think, doesn't it??

**pavalamani pragasam** · 29th April 2005, 07:59 AM

This story was shown in the TV as an ad for a biscuit company(I forget which!)!

**Surya** · 29th April 2005, 08:10 AM

R u the anjali from IF? Because I swear I remember reading the exact same thing there too!

**anjali2005** · 29th April 2005, 10:12 AM

Originally Posted by Surya

R u the anjali from IF? Because I swear I remember reading the exact same thing there too!

Hi surya,

I am not the one from IF,i received this in email...just thought i could share with u all.

**LastMoor** · 2nd May 2005, 08:36 AM

This story is now available as a beautiful short film by some Turk director. Those of u who got broadband, can see it at www.atomfilms.com, or videos.msn.com, search for "Cookie Thief"

**Shakthiprabha.** · 5th November 2005, 04:32 PM

I thought the story is gonna come to a dramatic end, saying 'he is blind'.

Makes sense in a very deeper way.

Before we think again, alas these lessons would be happily forgotten.