If you judge others unfavorably, you are likely to speak ill of them as well. If so, why don't you...

Sell U Phone

I was speaking on the phone when someone called me from his cellular phone. I asked him to please to wait a minute so that I could say good-bye to the person I had been speaking to on the other line. He said, "Call me back. I'm hanging up." And he did.

I thought, "How miserly can he be, asking me to call him back instead of waiting for one minute?" But when I called him back, I understood why he had been in such a hurry. "I have to speak very fast," he said. "My phone battery is about to go dead." And it did.

(Submitted by SG from Jerusalem)

The Other Side of the Story Archives

Based on "The Other Side of the Story" by Mrs. Yehudis Samet, ArtScroll Series

Do you have a story to share?

Were you in a situation where there was the potential to misjudge a person, but there really was a valid explanation? Has a friend or a relative ever told you how they were in such a situation?

Share you stories with us for inclusion in future columns of The Other Side of the Story.

To submit your story, send it to info@ohr.edu. (To insure proper handling, put "Other Side" in the subject line of your message).

Subscribe to The Other Side of the Story via PointCast

The Ohr Somayach Home Page is hosted by TeamGenesis