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One of the qualities that most people admire in others is the willingness to admit one's mistakes. It is extremely hard sometimes to say a simple thing like "I was wrong about that." I had an experience recently with someone admitting to me that he had made a mistake 15 years ago. He told me he had been the manager of a certain grocery store in the neighborhood where I grew up, and he asked me if I remembered the egg boxes. Then he related an incident and I began to remember vaguely what happened. I was about eight years old then, and I had gone into the store with mother to do the weekly grocery shopping. There must have been a special sale on eggs that day because there was an impressive display of eggs in dozen and half dozen boxes. I must have stopped in front of a display to admire the eggs. Just then a woman came by pushing her grocery cart and knocked off some of the boxes. For some reason, I decided it was up to me to put the display back together, so I went to work. The manager came rushing over to see what had happened. When he appeared, I was on my knees inspecting some of the boxes to see if any of the eggs were broken. But to him it looked as though I was the wrong-doer. He yelled at me and wanted me to pay for any broken eggs. I protested my innocence and tried to explain, but it did no good. Even though I quickly forgot all about the incident, apparently the manager did not.
One of the qualities that most people admire in others is the willingness to admit one's mistakes. It is extremely hard sometimes to say a simple thing like "I was wrong about that." I had an experience recently with someone admitting to me that he had made a mistake 15 years ago. He told me he had been the manager of a certain grocery store in the neighborhood where I grew up, and he asked me if I remembered the egg boxes. Then he related an incident and I began to remember vaguely what happened. I was about eight years old then, and I had gone into the store with mother to do the weekly grocery shopping. There must have been a special sale on eggs that day because there was an impressive display of eggs in dozen and half dozen boxes. I must have stopped in front of a display to admire the eggs. Just then a woman came by pushing her grocery cart and knocked off some of the boxes. For some reason, I decided it was up to me to put the display back together, so I went to work. The manager came rushing over to see what had happened. When he appeared, I was on my knees inspecting some of the boxes to see if any of the eggs were broken. But to him it looked as though I was the wrong-doer. He yelled at me and wanted me to pay for any broken eggs. I protested my innocence and tried to explain, but it did no good. Even though I quickly forgot all about the incident, apparently the manager did not.