We had Chinese food for lunch today. Of course, you can’t have Chinese food without fortune cookies. So I open mine up, and my fortune is “The job is well done.”
Whatever. So a few hours later I grab another cookie from the pile of leftovers, and my fortune is exactly the same as my previous one. WTF? Maybe this is a sign I should play the lotto numbers on the back.
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