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Eating The Wrong Cookies - Assumptions
Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Sep 30, 2019 (message contributor)
A traveller, between flights at an airport, went to a lounge and bought a small package of cookies. Then she sat down and began reading a newspaper. Gradually, she became aware of a rustling noise. From behind her paper, she was flabbergasted to see a neatly dressed man helping himself to her cookies. Not wanting to make a scene, she leaned over and took a cookie herself.
A minute or two passed, and then came more rustling. He was helping himself to another cookie! By this time, they had come to the end of the package, but she was so angry she didn’t dare allow herself to say anything. Then, as if to add insult to injury, the man broke the remaining cookie in two, pushed half across to her, and ate the other half and left.
Still fuming sometime later when her flight was announced, the woman opened her handbag to get her ticket. To her shock and embarrassment, there she found her pack of unopened cookies!
How amazing it is to discover how wrong our assumptions can be!
(Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer. Chapter 4, Regal Press. 2000) originally Quoted from Craig Brian Larson, Illustrations for Preaching and Teaching, (Grandrapids Press, MI: Baker Book House, 1997) pg 9
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