Do You Want a Cigar?

The first day in Florida while I was running, I saw a young man smoking a cigar.He said to me, "Do you want to have a cigar?"
 
I waved my hand and said, "No, thank you."
 
The man ran after me and said, "You thank me and you are not taking one."
 
This time I just ignored him, so he stopped bothering me.
 
-29 November 1981  
   
 
 
[Source: "Do You Want a Cigar?" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 8, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1982.]