the willingness to admit ones 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 fifteen 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.
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