What You Get Is What You Got

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.


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