Fortune Cookie Foibles
Fortune Cookie Foibles
I mentioned once before that I don't put any stock in Fortune Cookies, but that once in awhile I save one just for kicks and giggles. Over the years I've noticed quite a downward trend in the quality of the “fortunes”. As with most things, “They just don't make 'em like they used to.” The spelling and grammar mistakes bug me, and sometimes they're not “fortunes” at all - meaning they don't even hint at something that might come up in your future. I've even gotten one or two that purported to tell me about a fault in my character! Humph!
I picked up one off the floor of my car today, and I don't remember when I got it. On first glance it seems “exciting”, but looking at it a second time, you see how useless these things have become, or always were.
“There is a prospect of a thrilling time ahead for you.”
Ooohh! How exciting. I'll hold my breath.....
1-. “Ahead” = any day before you die. Yeah, thanks for being so specific.
2-. Nonspecific “thrilling time” = Theoretically, there has to be at least ONE “thrill” left in the expected 3 decades of my life. And depending on how hard someone is to please, a “thrill” could be finding out that the buffet dinner contained fresh strawberries. Big whoop.
3-. Here's the most useless and annoying part that negates anything the rest proffers.... “the PROSPECT of a thrill”. It doesn't even say there WILL be a thrill, of any kind, no matter how inconsequential, no matter if there is only one left in the next 30 years. This 2” strip of garbage paper just says there's a POSSIBILITY that there MIGHT be a nameless thrill, sometime.
Well, good thing I read that, eh? I might have gone blundering about my future without this all-important life-changing knowledge that there JUST MIGHT be a CHANCE that “SOMETHING” good or thrilling may happen to me SOMETIME.