God tested my kindness. I was extremely hungry by the time I arrived work. I bought a
slice of rice cake for my brunch. At the pantry, everybody was doing
their personal stuff before the class, I sat on the corner. I took
out my fork and said, “kain”. I know that you know this simply
means, “I'm gonna have my meal now, excuse me.”
I am very sensitive when it comes to my
utensils. My husband and I seldom eat on the same plate and he seldom
takes whatever I am eating. I like the way he respects me. My
officemates are not like my husband.
I asked one of them, “Gusto
mo? May tinidor ka?” (Wanna try? Do you have fork?). Then
she grabbed MY fork and tried once, then again, and again, and
again. She even asked others to try. I went out of the room
pretending that I don't mind. When I came back, one of them told me
that she was sorry that MY fork fell on the floor.
I
don't know but somehow I felt disrespected. Suddenly I remembered I
had offended one of my officemates few months ago. She was having her
lunch and I interrupted her. I said, “You told me before that you
don't usually eat here at the pantry? But you're here.” I said it
in a nice tone. It was actually my way of saying “hi”. But she
exploded. She began to say a lot of words I wish to forget. Our 'used
to be good' relationship was never the same again after that day.
After some time, she confessed that she was just in a bad mood and my
comment appeared to be a wrong timing. Lesson learned, never
interrupt a person while he/she is eating because hunger drives
everyone crazy, literally.
Anyway,
getting back to my story, what was left for me was a small slice of
my rice cake and my fork with strangers' saliva. Since it's already
time to go to our respective stations, no one was left at the pantry.
Alone, I said to my self, attitude check? - failed.
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