A man in a restaurant
was overheard asking the waiter for black bottom pie and coffee.
"I'm sorry,
sir, but we're fresh out of black bottom pie," the waiter
replied.
"No black
bottom pie?" the customer shouted. "I've been coming
here for years, and I always order black bottom pie! It's the
reason I come here! I want to see the manager!"
Everyone in the
place was listening by this time, so the waiter excused himself
and told the man that he'd see what he could do.
Instead of bringing
the manager, though, he slipped out the back door and hurried
to a bakery down the street, returning with a single slice of
black-bottom pie.
"Compliments
of the house," he announced with a flourish as he delivered
the pie and coffee to the man's table.
The man looked
at him, then at the pie. After a long pause, he said, "No,
thanks! I'd rather be mad."
He was joking,
but sometimes when our expectations don't match up with reality,
we can be just as hard to please. When that happens to me, I
remind myself to start counting what I do have -- eyes, ears,
health, a job, and on and on.
How about you?
What have you got today?
If you don't
have a fork to eat your pie...use your fingers.