Immediately the husband drove downtown to accost the druggist and demand an apology. Before he could say more than a word or two, the druggist told him, "Now, just a minute - listen to my side of it. This morning the alarm failed to go off, so I was late getting up.
I went without breakfast and hurried out to the car, but I'll be damned if I didn't lock the house with both house and car keys inside. I had to break a window to get my keys.
Driving a little too fast, I got a speeding ticket. Then, about three blocks from the store I had a flat tire.
When I finally got to the store there was a bunch of people waiting for me to open up. I got the store opened and started waiting on these people, and all the time the darn phone was ringing its head off.
Then I had to break a roll of nickels against the cash register drawer to make change, and they spilled all over the floor. I got down on my hands and knees to pick up the nickels - the phone is still ringing - when I came up I cracked my head on the open cash drawer, which made me stagger back against a showcase with a bunch of perfume bottles on it, and half of them hit the floor and broke.
The phone is still ringing with no let up, and I finally got back to answer it. It was your wife - she wanted to know how to use a rectal thermometer.
Well, Mister, I TOLD HER!"
From: MRSJokes@onelist.com
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
~ Francis Bacon ~
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
~ Josiah Bailey ~
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
~ Paul Boese ~
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
~ Sidney J. Harris ~
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
~ George Herbert ~
Random thoughts on forgiveness
He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
~ Lauter ~
Forgiveness is God's command.
~ Martin Luther ~
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
~ Josh Mcdowell ~
To err is human, to forgive is divine.
~ Alexander Pope ~
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the full value of time
and will not suffer it to pass away in
unnecessary pain.
~ Rambler ~
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is
the most refined and generous pitch of
virtue human nature can arrive at.
~ Laurence Sterne ~
God has a big eraser.
~ Billy Zeoli ~
Surely, making excuses for your action - just like what the druggist did - is not the way to ask for forgiveness. If you really mean it, then you own your guilt.
As to the woman in the story, here's what Dr. Wayne Dyer (Ph. D., Counseling Psychology) has to say: the freedom in a simple act of forgiveness saves the expense of anger and the high cost of hatred. Bearing a grudge is having a venom in your system that will ultimately destroy your peace of mind. The antidote is forgiveness. Forgiveness is joyful, easy, and most of all, exceedingly freeing. Forgiving is recognizing that deep injuries will not recover until you forgive. So make that choice and you will immediately feel freer than you ever felt.
Cheers.
Tsinoy
Mahathma Gandhi on Forgiveness:
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
