who's eating your cookies?
writer douglas adams, author of the book, "the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy", tells a great story about jumping to conclusions about people.
adams was sitting in the waiting area of a railroad station and had placed a package of cookies and a newspaper on the table in front of him.
a stranger sitting next to him suddenly reached across, opened the bag of cookies and started to eat them.
adams, annoyed, said nothing, but calmly took a cookie from the bag as well. soon the bag was empty as the men both ate from it.
when the stranger left for his train, adams picked up his newspaper - and found his bag of cookies underneath it. rather than a stranger eating his cookies, he'd been eating someone else's.
teachable moment: look to yourself first before you assume anything of another person. "otherwise", as adams quipped, "you'll wonder why it seems that someone else is eating your cookies."
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