Jill Smokler, AKA Scary Mommy
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Is there really any other way to interpret this?
Thanks. P.F. Changs. Thanks a bunch.
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I truly believe that life is a destination, not a journey…..but this is just ominous. Can you take the train instead?
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That’s why I only travel from my kitchen to my couch. Sometimes, I make a round trip.
LOL you just gave me the best laugh of the day! Thank you!
P.F. Chang’s just screwed you…
I know. And since when is “5″ a lucky number?
I think it is speaking figuratively??? (I hope I used the right word there). But either way the hell if I’d fly after that one.
oh man, that’s harsh for something you find mixed in with your food! I say counterbalance it by having your tarot cards read. ;-)
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oh hell no. i wouldn’t leave my house. heck, i wouldn’t leave my bathroom.
You forget to add “in bed” to the end.
“It is sometimes better to travel hopefully than arrive… in bed.”
Hmm… still not that funny. At least you didn’t get the Lost numbers.
HA! That’s almost worse. Well, maybe not worse, but it’s certainly not much of an improvement.
I agree with Raquel. Surely it means that sometimes the anticipation of winning a lottery, spending all that money that you don’t have, is fun and therefore it doesn’t matter if you win or not? I know a similar saying: It’s not just the thrill of winning, it’s having the courage to try. But as I couldn’t find anywhere that I could read about this sign I’m just clutching at straws here. I’m a fatalist… If you’ve gotta go you could go from a heartattack when you win the lottery with those lucky numbers….
No amount of lettuce cups can compensate for that crap fortune.
Seriously, right? And the waiter totally judged how many soda refills I asked for. Prick.
……….than to arrive home to see scary wife.
isn’t so?
Oh no. Oh freaking no!
Don’t worry. You will be fine. Just fine! : )
Wishing you the most wonderful of weekends Jill!
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Maybe it has nothing to do with the flight, but the destination. Meaning sometimes its the travel is more worth more then the final destination. There is a saying, which I can’t remember about learning more from the journey, then the final goal, it is the journey that we all learn more from. So maybe this isn’t negative at all.
this is why I am glad Chinese restaurants don’t give fortune cookies in Belgium…
well, it’s a little funnier if you add “in the back of a volkswagon” as we must do to all our fortune cookies.
Because it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive in the back of a volkswagon.
My worst fortune cookie ever was “you need to make some changes to your exercise program”
Which I thought was a pretty bogus fortune.
I once had a fortune cookie that said to get another cookie!
NEW JOB IDEA: Fortune cookie editors. Hey Obama, we could squeeze, like 50 jobs out of that!
Why do they even put crap fortunes like that in a cookie? It’s supposed to be a happy little FORTUNE cookie!…not a damn DOOM cookie! Blah! I’d be tempted to give that thing back and tell them I want another!
LOL, OK for someone with a fear of flying that one is pretty cruel. Even for someone who doesn’t have that fear it still makes you think of horrible accidents, but I think the message (although fuzzy) is true. When you are a kid, you imagine that being a “grown-up” is so cool and so much fun. The journey to get to adulthood was full of hopeful dreams of everything you’d do or be. Now that I think I’ve arrived here, I wish I was still that naive kid because the reality is not as much fun as the hope.
Yeah, that is kinda crappy… who writes these things????
You need more Chinese before you have to fly. That fortune will counteract this fortune. It is all logic, see?
That does make a great deal of sense.
Ohhhh, wow. That’s just freaky. I would be hiding in my house for a very, very long time. O.O
Are you flying somewhere this weekend? For your sake, I hope not. I do like the idea of ordering more Chinese food and getting a new fortune cookie to counter balance this one.
Jeff was trying to get me to fly somewhere with him next weekend. SO not gonna happen.
Okay. Thats just creeped me out. Thanks Jill. Glad hubby arrived last night!
I thought fortunes were supposed to be uplifting, NOT cryptic!
I’ve never had such a creepy fortune, maybe optimistically vague (which is annoying) but I’ll take that over the one you got.
hahaha, should it maybe say arrive late? I love chopped english in fortune cookies. Look it what fun it has created!
You have to remember that all those stupid fortunes are just pumped out from some random machine… so ask yourself this… have you ever had a fortune from a cookie come true before?
That said, I’m glad I don’t like chinese food.
Yeah, to whatever zen-type wrote that fortune: I reserve the right to be mightily pissed if my airline does not get me to my destination.
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Fortune cookies are the best, aren’t they? But you forgot to play by the golden rule and add “in bed.” Which then perhaps makes it about orgasms?
Did you pick the cookie? Because you are supposed to pick your own…..
I am with you. My fear of flying is so ridiculous that I abide strictly by the “right foot first” rule… (http://navigatingtheasteroidfield.blogspot.com/2010/04/volume-iv-ladies-and-gentlemen-this-is.html)
Ooohh!! YIKES. That is NOT a good fortune.
That. is. just. wrong.
Wow. Seriously, what the hell??? What asshole put that phrase in a fortune cookie? Does the word FORTUNE not mean anything to this douche canoe??
Did you know that the passengers on Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 all went to Chinese restaurants and they all got the same fortune exactly like this one you are holding?! It is true: when they got to the island, they all got quite hungry at about 3 pm.
love it!
My favorite fortune of all time was one I received a few years back that said, “You will buy some new pants.”
??????
I totally disagree with that fortune. It is better to arrive and end the misery, than to stay in it and hope it will end.
hoooo boy. That’s a doozy. Have a little mai tai and get on the plane.
That is just not right!
Okay I have a huge fear of flying so I definitely would not have appreciated that so called fortune. But, I always get at least 5 fortune cookies and then decide that the best one is the one that will be true for me! ;-)
Is it a whole, “It’s the journey, not the destination” kind of thing? Because if it ism they should have just said that.
Oh, I would not be happy to get that. Can’t they hire someone to write appropriate fortunes?
Pshh, their fortunes are always a waste of excitement.
It is a sign.
Never take a fortune nestled in a cookie too literally.
More like, sometimes the wrapping paper is nicer than the present.
I say go forth, unafraid.