Another Round of Fortunes

I just can't help it. I love it when we go out to dinner and get the fortune cookies. It's sometimes better than dealing with the chaos at being out to dinner with fidgety kids. And for some reason, the table seems to get silent when those cookies come. This time around, I forgot to bring Josh's with us. See if you can guess which one belonged to Bea, Olivia or me.

1. You will be coming into a fortune.

2. An unexpected event will bring you fortune.

3. You will soon be receiving sound spoken advice. Listen!

It's nice to see the words "fortune" in two out of the three of these...And because I can't draw things out, here's the results:

1. Well, I wish this one were mine, but it wasn't. But, I would definitely say that the person likely to get this one out of the three of us is Bea. And, yes, she did get it. She asked what a fortune was because maybe that word means the same thing as candy. It was a big disappointment for her. Josh and I said we should play the lotto numbers on the back of her fortune, but we ended up not. Instead, we just said to each other that that would be nice if she did and then maybe she would decide to take care of us in our old age.

2. That would be me. I don't like the unexpected, unless it is unexpected in a good way. Sounds like it is. And an "event" could be defined as almost anything. Nothing has happened yet.

3. So, is it any wonder that the child who is currently most defiant gets the fortune that actually has an exclamation point with the word "listen"? No surprise, really. After I read it to myself first, I had a little chuckle. Then, in my "reading fortune cookie" voice I read it to the table. When it came to the "Listen!" part, I said it quite sternly and loud and had a few people look my way.

I have long known fortune cookies to be an entertaining piece at the end of an asian dinner with my family. It has always been fun reading them, and I'm glad that our family is carrying on that little tradition.