The sad demise of the fortune cookie

Does anyone know how or why fortune cookies have lost their oomph? This has nothing to do with taste...well, in this post, it does. A little.

I had a hankering for wonton soup tonight. If I were a better person, I would have made it but alas I was not in a cooking mood and so we ordered in. Good food. Bravo, Jumbo Seafood, a local eatery that belongs to a delivery service.

Comes then the crushing disappointment. Cracking open the cookie. Back in the day, I remember fortunes like: "Cross the great water and meet your great love." "An unexpected meeting will change your career." You know. All of us has a friend who keeps these little slips of providence in his (in my experience, two men I know do this) wallet.

But in the last few years, I've consistently gotten proverbs not prognostication. Really useless. True, but useless. Tonight's case in point: "Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness." I agree but what about tomorrow? What's happening then? Come on, fortune cookie makers. Let's get back to divination.