Good fortune
The Times today ran a delightful story on the front page about a sudden surge in successful lottery-number-picking that made the Power Ball authorities worry. It turned out, on investigation, that more than 100 people had played a number that they had read on a fortune cookie message. The cookie number turned out to be very very close to the winning number – close enough to entitle the cookie-readers to a cumulative payout of almost $19 million.
Investigators visited dozens of Chinese restaurants, takeouts and buffets. Then they called fortune cookie distributors and learned that many different brands of fortune cookies come from the same Long Island City factory, which is owned by Wonton Food and churns out four million a day.
“That's ours,” said Derrick Wong, of Wonton Food, when shown a picture of a winner's cookie slip. “That's very nice, 110 people won the lottery from the numbers.”
Last night I was the happy recipient of a remarkable fortune-cookie future-life prediction — undoubtedly from Wonton Food.
On the “A” side, it says: There is a prospect of a thrilling time ahead for you.
On the “B” side, it says: [try to] Speak Chinese: I am a lawyer.
See? Being a lawyer isn't so bad after all. It could even be thrilling.
[numbers to play: 40 41 13 2 22]
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