My mother and I had Chinese for lunch this afternoon, and of course we received the traditional fortune cookie after the meal. I had a lot of fun trying to peek into the two cookies to read the fortunes before I chose one. Alas, I only deciphered "The" on one of them, which told me a lot, so of course I picked that one.

Mama had something rather ridiculous along the lines of "Abandon business and try to nurture your love life." Mine was (more or less): "The biggest lies you tell are those you tell to yourself."

Yeah, I can totally see where my life is going now.

Anyway, the laughable part of all of this was the other side of the cookie, which contained the lucky numbers and a "Learn Chinese!" Word of the Day (which is absolutely worthless because they don't really tell you where the emphases and such go in a word and that is essential to Chinese).

My word?

Boyfriend.

I read it aloud, and I seriously thought Mama was joking when she followed up with her word (phrase...):

Already married.

1 Comment

1. Anonymous on November 6, 2007 at 1:50 PM

   *laughs*
   
   Oh, my.... I never had much patience for fortune cookies.