Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Fortune-ately

I had a great Chinese dinner on Sunday night with a couple of good friends at a local restaurant, and at the end we all got our traditional fortune cookies. "You will receive good news tomorrow." "A surprise visitor will bring good fortune." 

I was telling them that many years ago, I was at a large business dinner. When I read my fortune cookie aloud, ("You have a yearning for perfection"), everyone started laughing. I thought they were all telling me that I was not very organized.  Turns out everyone thought I said, "You have a urine infection."

So we started thinking Sunday night what a great idea it would be to slip some "misfortunes" into the batch of fortune cookies . . . maybe one in ten.

"Your husband secretly wears your underwear."
"You will lose your left foot in a tragic car accident."
"This meal will give you food poisoning tonight."
"Everyone hates your blog.  They just don't tell you."

So many options.  So much fun.  Ah so.

4 comments:

Geraldo Maia said...

A friendly hello from Brazil:
Geraldo

Anonymous said...

More "misfortunes" ...
... start smoking again -- give cancer a chance!
... Invest your life savings now ... don't worry!
... athletes foot will attack you -- athlete or not!
... poultry sushi ... don't worry about salmonella!
... you'll have two flat tires on the way home!
... your recent cut will become infected.

Susan C said...

More mis-forturnes:

- You will choke on a fortune cookie.
- You are allergic to nuts. (Too bad about that kung pao chicken.)
- Beware of wandering chopsticks.
- You will be rejected by sum yung guy.


This was fun.

Loved the "urinary infection" misunderstanding.

Anonymous said...

Billie bud seems off the chart
We be wonderin' where tho art
Hoping to see another post soon
perhaps by the next full moon!