Cookie Break?

 

Have you ever been robbed or cheated out of something that belongs to you?  One day a secretary in a large office building took a coffee break.  She stopped at a vending machine, selected a small bag of chocolate chip cookies, plopped them on a table and sat down to sip coffee while browsing the newspaper.  When she reached out and took a cookie from the package, to her astonishment, a man sitting across the table also reached out and took a one.  She was a little upset by this, but didn't say anything.  After all, it was only one cookie. 

A few minutes later she took another one.  Again, her table companion did the same.  Now she was getting bent out of shape.  Soon there was only one cookie left.  He broke it, took half for himself and left the other half for her.  Then he smiled, rose from the table and walked away. 

Now she was really mad!  How could he dare help himself to her cookies?  She had no problem sharing, but he wasn't polite enough to ask and he didn't even say, "Thank you."  His nerve and disrespect were insulting.  That's what really hurt.  She stood up, grabbed the newspaper and then saw her bag of cookies.  It had been hidden out of sight by the newspaper.  All this time, she had been helping herself to his small bag of cookies.  She had robbed, cheated and disrespected him!