A young lady was waiting for her flight in the boarding room of a big airport. As she would need to wait for a long time, she decided to buy a book to read and a packet of cookies to snack on. She sat down in an armchair in the VIP room of the airport to relax and read in peace. A man sat down in the next seat, opened his magazine and started reading. When she took out the first cookie, the man took one also. She felt irritated but said nothing. She just thought: “What a nerve! If I wasn’t so nice, I would blacken his eye.” For each cookie she took, the man took one too. This was infuriating her but she didn’t want to cause a scene.

When only one cookie remained, she thought: “Aaah… What will this rude man do now?” Then the man, taking the last cookie, divided it into half, giving her one-half. That was too much! She was really angry now. In a huff, she took her book, the rest of her things and stormed off to the boarding place. For the next hours, she found it hard to forget what happened.