fortune cookie

yummy.. we had chinese take out tonight - fabulous sezchuan chicken, double pan fried noodles and pork fried rice for RJ.... topped off with fortune cookies which are my favorite!





So I open my fortune cookie awaiting the concise poignant direction that usually brings comfort or at a minimum humor and here is what it said.....

NOTHING

My fortune cookie was empty! I looked at RJ, "Is it bad luck"

RJ laughs, interrupts and says "no honey, its probably the down economy, they can't afford to put a fortune in every cookie"

I laugh and finish my question "to eat the fortune cookie with no fortune?"

Then as I ate the last morsel of my cookie I wondered.... is it a symbol of the economy....nothing is certain so how can a fortune be given?