Fortune Cookies: Are They Really Fortunes?

After a particularly long day at the radio station, I texted my husband simply this: "Chinese?" His reply, "Sounds good luv".

Awesome, no cooking tonight! I called our local Chinese restaurant, ordered the usual and picked it up ten minutes later. The gentleman at the Chinese restaurant loaded me up with fortune cookies. Maybe he thinks I need a fortune or I looked like someone who needed words of wisdom. OK, cool! I'll take it. I drove home and put it on the table.

After dinner, my husband went into the living room to curse at, I mean to watch the Yankee game. Neither of us are big on sweets so he didn't take a fortune cookie. My son was working, so there they were, about 8 fortune cookies staring at me.

So I stared back at them. They kept taunting me. But I don't really like fortune cookies. OK OK, I'll open one. The fortune said, "You will be on the list of The Excellent People this year". Is that a thing? It must be. The Excellent People was capitalized! Wow! Wait! I'm not on that list? OK then, I'm glad I chose that one.

My friend, Nicol, told me a long time ago that you're supposed to choose the fortune cookie that is furthest from you. I'm glad I knew that because the other choices weren't so great and, to me, not fortunes. "You like competitive sports" is not a fortune. "You will marry Jon Bon Jovi" is. See the difference? First one, no I don't and second one HELL YES!

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