What is up with fortune cookies, Part II
This is a followup to my previous article, What is up with fortune cookies these days? which I wrote after friends and I received some very strange “fortunes” in our fortune cookies.
Well, it’s happened again. Different restaurant. Three of these are just weird. One of those three is just stupid. Then the fourth one is just made of 100% pure awesome, and it was, appropriately, the one in my cookie.
The first weird one...
What is up with fortune cookies these days?
When I was growing up, I seem to recall that fortune cookies contained things like “you will meet a tall, handsome stranger” or cute little “Confucius say…” type phrases. These days it seems like they’re…um…different?
We ordered Chinese delivered tonight and each of us got a cookie. Here is what our “fortunes” were:
“You have a sincere desire to improve”
This one actually works well with the “-in bed” suffix, so it gets my approval.“Lucky you....
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