# Help me find the true meaning of my fortune
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-true-meaning-of-my-fortune/94486
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 20, 2001, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-true-meaning-of-my-fortune/94486 "2001-11-20T23:15:22Z")
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### Author:  [@Jeffro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffro)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2001, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-true-meaning-of-my-fortune/94486/1 "2001-11-20T23:15:22Z")
So I go to the Bamboo Hut today for lunch (Kun Pao Chicken w/fried rice & large Coke $6.45).
I finish eating and I open my fortune cookie and…
There is a gradual improvement.
Feelings are sweet and tender.
Lucky Numbers 21,24,26,34,38,43
I’ve been thinking about what this might mean all afternoon and I think I finally came up with the answer, you guys love me don’t you??
Well I feel some kind of emotional tie for you too!!
On the other hand if you think it means something else please post.
Jeffro
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### Author:  [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2001, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-true-meaning-of-my-fortune/94486/2 "2001-11-20T23:21:56Z")
Well, a friend of mine once let me in on an Ancient Chinese Secret[sup]TM[/sup]:
All fortune cookies should be read with the words “in bed” appended.
Thus your fortune becomes:
“There is gradual improvement in bed.”
and
“Feelings are sweet and tender in bed.”
Do try this at home, folks.
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### Author:  [@Kathleen\_de\_Trelare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kathleen_de_Trelare)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2001, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-true-meaning-of-my-fortune/94486/3 "2001-11-20T23:47:03Z")
My brother once got one that said, “Help! I’m trapped in a Chinese bakery.” Or something like that. He carries it in his wallet to show people just in case they don’t believe him. I don’t know how that would work with “in bed” at the end.
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### Author:  [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2001, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-true-meaning-of-my-fortune/94486/4 "2001-11-20T23:54:50Z")
Well, obviously, that one doesn’t count, as it was made by someone trapped in a Chinese bakery, and so not in on the secret.
Don’t rain on my parade.