Fortunes for Snacking

fortune cookie

A wierd looking, but somehow tasty, snack u get at a chinese resturaunt after ur meal, that whatever it says on there, you should add "in bed" at the very end of it

I recently took a trip to California. To be exact we went to Sacramento, Yosemite, Davis and San Francisco. While in San Francisco we visited China Town! (Yes, I know, it's pretty amazing) While there we read up on a FORTUNE COOKIE FACTORY! (This is me expressing my love for fortune cookies and their wisdom)

So our little touristy guide book told us where to go, and away we went.

Contrary to popular belief, the fortune cookie factory is actually two little Asian women and a tiny old man crammed into a tiny little room on the backside (which is actually the front in China) of an alley.

CREEPY!

But away we went on our adventure to eat a "fortuneless fortune cookie" (I know, it's a crime). Once there were were greeted by previously said tiny little Asian man. There were tons of people in a waaaay too small space, but lots of fortune cookie goodness. Posters on the wall read, "$1 For Pictures" (What?), but like the tourist we are, we got pictures. (see above, that is me....with one of the said Asian women)

Pretty cool, I know.

Anyways, after our picture purchase we also got some FREE samples of the "fortuneless fortune cookies". The flavor was great, but the experience was lacking. I missed my life lesson on a tiny rectangle sheet of paper, with random numbers on the back.

To me, the actual fortune is the most important part, otherwise wouldn't it just be a cookie?

I now turn to my bag of fortune cookies, purchased in said creepy alley of China Town, not to eat them, but to get some wisdom.

I am also the nerd (if you didn't already know I was one, you do now) that carries around my favorite fortune.....in my wallet. (I know...LOSER)

Of course, it is a conversation starter for when I have to show my ID. (they probably think I'm a LOSER)

But who cares....life goes on.

Back to the fortune in my wallet.

I believe I opened this fortune at the Pei Wei restaurant of West Knoxville, and I instantly loved it, because of it's Dave Matthews reference.

If you don't know the song I am talking about, you can listen to it here....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M5fDlJd9Ys

Would you not like to be 

Sitting on top of the world with 

Your legs hanging free

- Dave Matthews