I had Chinese food for dinner tonight. After the meal, I broke open the fortune cookie but I couldn’t get the fortune out of the center of the broken cookie. Whoever made the fortune cookies had somehow gotten the small wise slip of paper stuck to the cookie walls. Most people would have shrugged and just thrown the cookie away. No big deal. No, not me. By golly, I wanted my fortune and wasn’t about to get gypped. I tried breaking apart the cookie halves into smaller pieces in hopes of unsticking the paper fortune – but no luck. I ended up with a bunch of small cookie fragments and a fortune torn into three pieces. I was then able to hold onto the fortune pieces with my fingers and I could nibble at each cookie piece until the sugary confection completely crumbled away from the paper. Whew – almost there!
I layed out the three small torn fragments of my fortune on the table in front of me and arranged them in the right order.
“Patience is a virtue.”
Sigh.