A woman was waiting at the 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 beside her, as bold as could be,
Grabbed a cookie or two from the bag
between,
Which she tried to ignore to avoid a scene
She read, munched cookies, and watched the
clock,
As the gustly “cookie thief” diminished her
stock
She was getting more irritated as the minutes
ticked by,
Thinking, “If I wasn’t so nice, I’d blacken his
eye!”
With each cookie she took, he took one too.
When only one was left, she wondered what
he’d 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, and he ate the other.
She snatched it from him and thought, “Oh
brother,
This guy has some nerve, and he’s also so
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 for
the gate,
Refusing to look at the “thieving ingrate”.
She boarded the plane and sank in her seat,
Then sought her book, which was almost
complete.
As she reached in her baggage, she gasped
with surprise.
There were her bag of cookies in front of her
eyes!
“If mine are here,” she moaned with despair.
“Then 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!!!!
By: Valerie Cox