Rabbi Leora Kaye tells the story of a young girl who visits her grandmother in the country. It’s the girl and her grandmother’s tradition to take a train ride together, but one day, there’s an unexpected hiccup in their plans. Listen to this episode of Stories We Tell to find out what do they do when things don’t go as usual, and what we can learn from it.

This episode was adapted from a story found in the “Beauty” section of A Complete Treasury of Stories for Public Speakers, compiled and edited by Morris Mandel and published by Jonathan David Co, 1974.