After the greasy Chinese food I had at lunch, I needed the palate-cleansing nothingness of the included fortune cookie. Here is what it said:
You are good-natured, practical and firm in your point of view.
Ok, it's not a fortune, but it's nice. I even thought it was pretty on-the-money. I'm an easy-going person, yet I believe I have my feet firmly rooted in reality. So, hey, my fortune cookie got it right?
And then I realized, who the heck doesn't that fortune apply to, at least in their own minds? I mean, who says, "well actually, I'm ill-tempered, impractical and wishy-washy?"
So instead of a real fortune, I got a sham platitude. I feel cheated.
Now I think I need a real cookie.
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I do think your 'fortune' does ring true to you!
I love how fortune cookies are no longer written with fortunes (I have yet to see the future tense in a cookie recently...)
Maybe the fortune cookie industry got sued the same way the hot coffee cup people did? (I mean, couldn't you just picture someone suing a fortune cookie company because their fortune was wrong -- this is America, after all...)
We demand honesty in fortune cookies! Mine should read, "you are loud, insecure, and constantly dissatisfied with the state of your hair."
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