Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Glamour and Celebrity Swag

So, I've been planning a special section for this blog for some time. I decided I'd call the section "Fortune Cookie Wisdom" as I am always fascinated how often the my cookie fortunes come true. I'm sure this is a sort of cosmic, psychic, placebo effect, but I enjoy it nevertheless. So, ever since my ever lovin' got me a digital camera I have been taking pictures of the fortunes I get at Asian-inspired restaurants. (Naturally, I've procrastinated about the actual POSTING part.) So tonight, we went to Panda Inn. And at the end of the meal they brought us those white chocolate dipped fortune cookies. And naturally, mine had a wonderful, positive, upbeat fortune in it. And naturally, I took a picture of it.

Now, my camera is relatively new, and I really, really suck at taking pictures. So this process of taking a picture of a cookie at a restaurant is not nearly as covert as would be prudent. It generally involves a lot of cursing and "here let me look at thats" and "RTFM darlings". Anywho, a very bright general manager at the Panda Inn saw the proceedings and asked me, "Oh, do you Yelp?" No, she wasn't talking about making sort of squeaky, distressed noises. She was talking about Yelp--a wildly popular, online review site where ordinary people post reviews of restaurants and stores.

I couldn't tell a lie. I told her that I was preparing a section on my blog called "Fortune Cookie Wisdom" and that I frequently photograph fortune cookies in restaurants. "Oh," she said. "Well I thought you might be doing a review." I told her that I was doing a review of sorts, on my blog. "Cool," she said.

Now actually this manager was not only attentive about the whole picture taking thing, but had been attentive all night, in making sure that we had what we needed--full water glasses, hot food etc. And so overall, I'd say our experience was pretty positive.

But for the sake of honesty and total avoidance of flogging, I must disclose that she ultimately offered me a bribe. She ultimately came out with a bag of 12 of those chocolate dipped fortune cookies. "Now you can have a different one, every day for 12 days!" I was pretty impressed, I can tell you.

So how do you like them apples? This represents the very first celebrity SWAG for my little blog. I guess that's a sort of glamorous and luxurious. I mean it's not the Academy Award gift bag, but it's a start.

I'm telling you, those fortunes are simply uncanny.

The One ID Man