My friend Katie and I were at a Chinese New Year party. They had some traditional foods and had also provided fortune cookies. I hadn’t gotten a cookie yet but Katie had pulled one from the glass dish and was telling me of her dislike for advice cookies—the cookies that tell you good things to do vs. cookies that have a fortune in them. I saw her put pressure on both ends of the cookie and then heard the familiar popping sound accompanied by the twisting of the paper out of its edible tomb. She read her fortune and then walked over to me, folding the thin fortune in half and putting it in my pocket.
“I want you,” she said in a serious tone, “to think about this very carefully”. I nodded, intrigued, and promised I would read it later in solemnity.
On the way home I felt for my pocket and pulled out the folded fortune. I moved towards the light and read the fortune:
VERY SOON A FRIEND WILL SURPRISE YOU WITH A GIFT
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