fortune cookies talk back, number whatever

Posted on October 21st, 2009 by Scraps.
Categories: Music, Words, Comedy, Oracles.

Yesterday a got a fortune cookie that said, "Come back later. I am sleeping. (Yes, fortune cookies need their sleep, too.)"

I love the first part. The second, parenthetical part, not so much. It's trying too hard, over-selling the joke.

But it's trying. It's fortune cookies like that that keep me reading them; one out of thirty, seems like these days.

5 comments.

ethan

Comment on October 21st, 2009.

I don't think I've ever gotten one that interesting. The closest I've ever seen is the sadly ubiquitous "You will be invited to a karaoke party."

Unofficial Holy Man™ (in training)

Comment on October 21st, 2009.

What would be even spookier is if you put the fortune back in, reseal the cookie, then open it again in 5 hours......

Madeleine Robins

Comment on October 22nd, 2009.

When I was a kid my father had his assistant painstakingly tweeze the original fortunes out of a bag of fortune cookies, and as painstakingly put custom fortunes she had typed out back into the cookies. When you're a kid, you still believe the universe contains pockets of magic, so the first cookie or two, which said things like "A Clean Room is a Happy Room, Madeleine" had a high impact. After that, we knew we had been elaborately conned. But that first rush, believing that the fortune cookie universe was talking back, was pretty cool.

Susan de Guardiola

Comment on October 22nd, 2009.

I got one like that once. It ticked me off. Fortune cookies should do their jobs of providing fortunes, not excuses.

Scraps

Comment on October 22nd, 2009.

Mad, I hope he substituted half moral lessons and half messages of love.

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