“Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;”

(James 1:19)

As the plane landed, a voice came over the intercom: “If you are not in a hurry could you please sit and wait and allow others to deplane first to make their flight connections?” This little old lady immediately stood up and asked someone near her, “could you please get my bag down from up top”?

After she received her bag, she opened it up and pulled out a stick which when unfolded turned into a cane. The lady began getting out of her seat and making her way down the aisle using her cane to guide her up to the front of the plane.  It didn’t take long to notice the old lady was blind and missed the announcement to wait.

When she got up to the front, she began to ask the flight attendant questions. “Do you have a wheel chair for me?  Do you know what gate we are in? Do you know what gate I should go to? etc…. she went on and on. The flight attendant was very gracious with her but didn’t know all of her answers. In the meantime the whole plane of people trying to get off were being held up, including those needing to catch connecting flights.  This lady, being blind of course, didn’t notice those waiting behind her and apparently was clueless to holding up many impatient passengers.    (more…)