What you see sometimes is not what you think

~ Author unknown

A woman was at the airport for a “red-eye” flight. She was tired, but also hungry so she bought a box of cookies. She sat down near the gate to read.

After a few minutes, she decided to eat some of the cookies she had purchased, and reached down to get them. As she opened the package, she noticed the man beside her watching with great interest. She took the first cookie and began to eat when, to her great surprise, the man reached over, smiling, and took the second cookie.

This upset the woman but she did not want to create scene. Besides, she thought, “Well, he is only eating one.” The woman ate her cookie in stunned silence, astonished at the audacity of the man. After a moment she determinedly reached for the 3rd cookie, but no sooner had she taken it out of the package than he, again smiling and without a word, reached over and took the 4th. Her indignation rose as back and forth they went in total silence, she taking a cookie, he taking a cookie, until they reached the bottom of the package where the final cookie remained.

The man picked up the final cookie and said to the woman, “Would you like to split it with me?” She was so furious that she grabbed it out of his hand, took her bag and stormed away.

Only a few moments later, already in the plane, she was still fuming. Before she sat down, as she reached into her purse to retrieve her glasses, she stopped short. She was stunned. There in the bag was her unopened package of cookies.

The man she was angry with turned out to be the generous one.