On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:57:16 -0800, Mark Thorson wrote:

> Goomba wrote:
>>
>> We order Chinese food delivery at work at pretty routinely. One of my
>> friend's got a fortune cookie paper that actually had to *nerve* to say
>> "Why lie about your age when it is obvious" LOL LOL LOL
>>
>> We tease her about it often
>
> Just another reason to do what I do.
>
> When eating at a Chinese restaurant with others,
> if fortune cookies are served at the end, I refuse
> to eat mine or even pick it up. Drives some people
> nuts, who want to see the fortune.
>
> "You can have it."
>
> "No, it's your fortune. You opened it."

i thought the doctrine there was that it's *your* fortune, but you don't
have to eat the cookie. i open mine and give the cookie to my girlfriend.

your pal,
blake