There is a classic tale of the gentleman who purchased a plane ticket from New York to Los Angeles. The man was quite finicky about traveling, and asked the agent for a window seat. Somehow, he was not placed by the window, rather in the aisle.
During the entire trip, he fidgeted and squirmed. Immediately after the long journey the man went straight to complain.
“I specifically asked for a window seat,” he exclaimed. “Your agent in New York assured me that I would be getting a window seat. Look at this stub. It placed me right in the aisle!”
The customer relations agent in Los Angeles was not fazed. Unfazed she asked the man, “Did you ask the person in the window seat to trade places?”
This time the man was irate. “I was not able to!”
“And why not?”
“There was no one in the seat.”
People often blame the ramifications of their doings on everyone else but themselves.
Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetzky
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