http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/dining/16fort.html
It was a great article (but then I'm a Japanophile, so I'm biased), but even more fun was the fact that they invited readers to share stories about the best fortunes they had received in their cookies. Over 500 people had left comments when I last checked and some of them were truly wonderful. I'm going to paste a few below, but here's the URL:
http://community.nytimes.com/article/comments/2008/01/16/dining/16fort.html?s=3
My boyfriend and I were finishing our dinner at our favorite Chinese restaurant with my parents. I opened my fortune cookie and smugly showed everyone that mine said, "You are destined for marital bliss".
My boyfriend read his silently and proceeded to laugh out loud. His fortune said, "Look before you leap".
We have now been married for 17 years.
— clinmroz, FH,MI
I was lamenting all day that I had said I would go out with this guy because he was really boring, unattractive (to me), and I just didn't like him "that way". He was so nice and such a thoughtful person that I didn't want to hurt his feelings, so I had said yes when he asked me out. We went for dinner at a Chinese restaurant, after which my fortune cookie said, "A forced kindness deserves no thanks." Serves me right.— Jackie, New York
The FBI & CIA are watching you. Eat this note.
— Dan, Florida
He Loves you as much as he can but he cannot love you very much.
— Katherine, Riverdale
About 5 years ago, I was secretly in love with a co-worker, who "liked me as a friend." I pursued her for years, but she never showed any serious interest.
We went out after work for chinese food and drinks.
The fortune cookie read "Have the courage to seek your desires."
That was all the excuse I needed. Right outside the chinese restaurant I pulled her close to me and kissed her. Rather than getting the knee in the groin that i was expecting, she return the gesture.
Getting married next april
— Senor fancy pants, western hemisphere
In Rochester MN at the Mayo Clinic, my brother Lynn received the tough news that he had perhaps a few weeks to live. He said to his daughter and me "Well, let's get some lunch. Chinese?" He cracked his cookie at meal's end, unfolded the paper, and silent tears flowed. The paper read "Your eyes will be opened to a new and beautiful world." It is in his coffin.
— Lynn's Brother, Ellensburg, WA
My all-time favorite is "Only the mediocre are always at their best."
— Barbara, Rochester, MN
"Live your life as if you had to sit next to yourself on an airplane."
— Erinaceous, NYC
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