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Tuesday 21 September 2004
empty fortune
LAST NIGHT I opened a fortune cookie and it was empty.
Completely totally empty.
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Posted by: Molly | 04:27 | Comments (133)
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LAST NIGHT I opened a fortune cookie and it was empty.
Completely totally empty.
Filed under: humor
Posted by: Molly | 04:27 | Comments (133)
Actually, my friend Dominic was disappointed that I spit the cookie all over the text book we were trying to work with.
Today I received my first cookie without a fortune. I did not know what to make of it, other then the fact the Chinese are even screwing up the quality of cheap useless cookies too….
i got one today too
a cookie without a fortune that is
I was so scared coming home,thinking i was gonna die or something
i didn’t
obviously
but i’m starting to feel kind of sick
and my throat hurts
but I already contacted my friends and a statue will be made in my honor if i die :]
hello, Tomorrow I start a new job, things have been a little rocky lately money-wise and I’m hoping that will change. So tonight I had chinese with a friend, having been unable to find the menu for our favourite place we opted for another – having double checked that we would get a cookie with the meal. after eating my friend allowed me to choose my cookie which happened to be empty. so now I have arrived here in my search to see whether or not folklore was on my side.
My first comment after asking my friend if she knew what it meant was “maybe it means that my fortune is my own to create”, and this reminded me about “The Fateful Coin”
anyone who has played Baldur’s Gate will that know of which I speak, but for those who don’t I shall explain.
“History of the Fateful Coin
Old tales tell that luck plays a crucial role in each person’s life. When each newborn baby enters into the Realms, Tymora flips a coin formed from the remnants of the original goddess of luck, Tyche. Beshaba calls it in the air – the moon (heads) or the cloak (tails). If Beshaba is right, that person is cursed with misfortune for the rest of his or her days. If she’s wrong, Lady Luck smiles on that child for the rest of his or her life. For some rare beings, the coin lands edge on – and these luckless few can forge their own fates, for they have more freedom over their destinies than the powers themselves.”
It is this philosophy that I am choosing to believe applies to an empty fortune cookie.
okies little update for you…
my previous post was submitted at around 22:30 GMT last night
it is now 07:30 GMT I’ve had a crap night’s sleep because of the weather and finally woke up properly an hour ago to find my electricity meter had run out and I had to fill it up to get the power back, and I am starting my new job in 1 hour – I will be learning to drive a bus – in 85mph winds
If I’m spared I will report back tonight when I get home
so. here I am, still alive
today went surprisingly well so all in all I would say the empty fortune cookie was no bad thing
I think alot of the people freaking out on here (thinking that they are going to die or have REALLY bad luck) are forgetting the purpose of a fortune cookie. It’s a FORTUNE cookie! If fate (or whatever you believe in) was going to change your life for the worse, then you would have gotten a fortune telling you about bad things to happen in your future. DUH!!!!!
Conversely, if your life was going to change for the better, then you would have gotten a fortune telling you about the good things about to happen to you.
I think that the “your future is up to you to make it better or worse” idea floating around is probably the best answer.
I just got an empty fortune cookie. I didn’t know what it meant. so, naturally i googled it. and here i am. i see that i’m not the only one. i guess it is supposed to be bad luck. fortunately for me, i only believe in good luck, and only when it suits me. well, the cookie tasted fine anyhow.
I got my empty cookie this morning..all I did was open another one to find a fortune. I’ve come to realize that an empty cookie means to find a new place to eat.
I just got one without a fortune. I’ve had two before in the same cookie.
I was looking for meaning of it and found this. Am I going to die? Will bad things happen to me? what should I do?
I thought about it more and realized something. I do believe in luck, but as I got older I saw that luck was just luck, and not good or bad. It works in your favor sometimes and other times it works against you.
In this case, I think no fortune means a balance. Everything must be perfect.
I just received a empty cookie i have 5 boys and they all received one but mine didnt i was freaked out!!!lol…especially since i am 4 months pregnant…but then again maybe it is good luck…my whole life has been what i made it and it is good!!!! even though i feel freaked guess i won’t be sleeping tonight (sigh)
Greetings, All.
Here it is 2008 and this mysterious event is still happening!
Obviously just got my first empty cookie. This blog-site-thingy has been greatly amusing to peruse, thank you all. I especially like how nearly everyone is polite even if you happen to think other people are being whacky/overly dramatic/whathaveyou. Some comment-posting sites get so unecessarily nasty! So thanks for the enjoyable diversion.
I’m ashamed to admit it, but since I’m not alone – I of course thought “holy crap am I going to die?!” for the first 2.3 shocked seconds (we are in the midst of tornado season here, after all, and there’s a mighty storm a-brewing as I type — actually what I SHOULD prob’ly do is unplug my computer, but anyway…). Then I thought “or wait, I can’t remember – is it actually GOOD?” So anyway, of course here I am to look it up.
At first I liked Daniel’s point about if you were to have particularly good luck or bad luck, it would have said so, and based on that I figured an empty cookie perhaps just indicates that I can count on status quo for a bit (at least until our next take-out meal…). Now, though, I think I’ve decided the cookie’s fortune was really on invisible paper, with invisible ink that reads “You will proceed straight to your computer and Google ‘empty fortune cookie.’” LOL.
Anyway, I feel a tad silly for taking it so seriously in those first few seconds, but cookies and me, we have a bit of a history: back in the days of honest-to-goodness FORTUNES inside cookies (like 10 years ago), my husband and I made some fairly radical life-changing decisions based on a couple of cookies. Seems awfully foolish now, really, but we were on the fence about jobs and moving and stuff and just needed a “push” one way or the other. One particularly agonizing afternoon, we got only one cookie, so we shared it. It said, “You will take a bold step: it is time to pick up your roots and begin a new journey.” We were shocked, since usually we have to stretch things a bit to make the fortunes REALLY apply to our lives, and so we decided to go with it and quit our jobs and move. Right then and there. (our lease was up, anyway, so that helped) We were 3 states away by the end of the week! All has since turned out quite well so far; we even have a brand new daughter named Molly — which is actually why I chose to peruse THIS site out of all the choices Google offered.
Oh, and we framed that little fortune – it’s still on the wall in our TV room.
Anyway, thanks for the lovely time and thanks for letting me babble on WAY too long, even if no one ever reads it since the original post is 3.5 years old and nobody’s added anything else for weeks.
And if I DO die, I’ll post again to let you know.
Good Luck to all (even those with wheat or gluten allergies who have to forgo fortune cookies altogether)!
P.S. Molly, I enjoyed reading the rest of your site, too – my dear little sister and her programmer ex-husband just started their own web-and-graphics design business a few years ago; I’m very proud of her!
I got a fortune cookie today with good news and the girls at work told me that Friday the 13th voids out the fortune cookie, so I went looking for answers and found your post. I still don’t see if there’s anything out there that says “all good fortunes found in fortune cookies will not come true because you got it on Friday the 13th.” I say boo on those girls!
So the other night me and a friend samantha opened 2 fortune cookies, mine had no fortune inside and hers had 2. anyone know the odds
Loretta you obviously read yours wrong, expecting with 5 boys, the wise knew you wouldn’t have time to READ so why bother. Brave women
good sitee
good blogger
very nice
hi i just had one of those blank cookies and you know what? YOU CONTROL WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU ,SO BE POSITIVE THAT IS THE KEY TO LIFE!Trust me it works.What ever crap you go through something positive will come through, only if you see it through the shades that every one wears!
I’ve gotten a few in my lifetime– and one a few minutes ago left over from last night’s noodle takeout hubby and I jus noticed on the counter. A CHOCOLATE fortune cookie, sans fortune. We’vve giggled about them for yers, finally decided to look ‘em up and stumbled here—-
I think the reactions above ARE the fortunes. For each individual. Everyone looks for signs. It’s how the signs make you REACT (your own interpretation of those signs), that determines your fortune….
Besides, haven’t you ever had something happen that seemed “bad” at the time, that later turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened because of what new path you were on because of it?
Chin up y’all. You’re happy when you decide to be. No one’s living in a dirt field with flies and open sores all over them. (Help those that are, btw.) You’ve got choices, be who you want, and live the life you want. Including taking an occasional *sign* from a fortune cookie….
Cheers!
Just went to local Chinese hangout and received 2 (TWO) fortune cookies with no fortune. Received 1 (one) opened the pkg. no fortune, asked for another one, open pkg. no fortune again. What does 2 fortune cookies with no fortunes mean?? I’ve had a good laugh but i’m going to sleep with one eye open.
Just received my first ever fortuneless fortune cookie. I quite prefer the taste without the bland fortune inside. I always thought it was a stupid filling for a cookie.
Secondly, could all of the people who died or were horribly maligned at some point after receiving a fortuneless fortune cookie please post again to let us know? That will certainly clear up a lot. Thanks!
Gotta love Google! Never thought I would come here to meet so many other people who ate fortune-less fortune cookies. I had one tonight, my first ever. I was once told that in order for your fortune to mean anything, you have to first take a bite of the cookie, then pull the fortune out. At first tonight, after taking the initial bite, I thought I ate my fortune. I quickly realized there was simply no fortune inside. Amazing… and I thought it must mean something… I will stick with the good luck theory. Hey I’ll take all I can get! Definitely enjoyed reading everyone else’s theories and their stories as well
wow! excellent molly!
Well im here for obvious reasons lol.
I was a bit distraught after finding my fortune-less cookie specially because of the previous post fortunes exposed around me.
Let me explain…
It was my friends bday today er yesterday, so instead of getting a cake we decided to opt out for take out, after the meal we decided to pick out a fortune cookie each 1 left over. My friend, bday guy, went first, his read “you will soon witness something unexpected” we prattled it off saying its just bs. Then i went next, lo and behold it was empty. My first thought of course like every1 else was that i was going to die, but i still thought nothing much of it just dumb “luck” or not. Then my second friend opened his as well, shockingly his was empty. i was a little bit more weary having pondered the odds of such a thing happening. Having no fortune we decided to open the third and share whatever fortune that was. Luckily that wasn’t empty, however, it said “try to enjoy the little things in life.” This one really bothered me, i figured “try to enjoy them while you can?… for death is upon you…” or something of the sort. So i guess if fortuneless cookies are bad omens, then that probably means im going to die cuz of/ or with my other fortuneless buddy, we do tend to hang out a lot. sigh… I just hope it means something good like, we’re both going to be driving our own routes and that an undetermined fate lies ahead. In which case the final cookie means, while you’re doing that stop and smell the roses once in a while.
Anywho, thx to every1, i really enjoyed your stories… gave me hope =)
Like today my rents and I had Panda Express and there were two cookies on the counter and the one I picked up had no fortune. I mean, YO! What up with that ? My mum says it’s all because Im too fortunate already:) Suh-weet. Although if I do think so myself, Im not that fortunate. Im pretty FRESH:D but not fortunate. Is it a sign of bad luck though ?
Well, anyways, it was “wicked awesome” . Fosho
damn i just got a fortuneless fortune cookie…. had it laying around the house decided to open it today and this is what i get wtf…..
My boyfriend and I ate at Panda Express this evening and he got a fortuneless cookie! He looked a bit panicked and I had to look up empty fortunes on my blackberry before I would get in the car with him driving! I read him the stories all the way home and we are doing just fine! We even rearranged our living room tonight without incident (knock on wood!)!
What does it mean when your forturn is blank? The piece of paper was blank.Does that mean I get to write my own fortune?
I got my 2nd EMPTY fortune cookie today. That’s 2 in a row. The first time I freaked out. This time I felt the need to find out what is going on in the universe …so I googled “what does it mean when you get an empty fortune.”
I’m feeling better now that I’ve read everyone’s responses. It’s amazing that people have been responding since 2004 over an empty fortune cookie. Guess the world isn’t going to end just yet.
Tomorrow I’m going to a chinese restaurant for lunch just to get a fortune cookie. I’ll let ya’ll know how it goes. wish me luck.
My buisness partner took the tab and spun it on the tabel with 2 cookies on it and we took the cookie closest to it. Then we opened his was funny and mine was not there no fortune so I asked the owner what that ment him being from Bejing he told me YOU GET TWO MORE!! made a big deal of it. Then I took those two and opened on in the car on the way back to work and there were THREE FORTUNES IN IT?? what the heck so Im going to ask him this weekend what that meens. He said it only happens 1 cookie out of every box also he recomended that I buy a lotto ticket lol. So I take this as someone on the otherside is trying to get my attention….
today I recieved a BLANK fortune cookie. I take that as a sign that I will have no future, eerrrr death is near OR I can create my own future.
it’s soo good to know i’m not the only “superstitious-silly,” as i’ve been called, for wondering if death or bad luck was near after my sister and i both got empty fortune cookies today, haha. we made it home on the highway safely, so i’m gonna go with the “create your own fortune” theory too