# Well, this is an Ominous Omen **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 23, 2020, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-an-ominous-omen/918789 "2020-08-23T01:34:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-an-ominous-omen/918789/1 "2020-08-23T01:34:29Z")
I ordered from Panda Express, and it came with a fortune cookie in a little baggie. I tore open the baggie, took out the cookie, cracked it open… …and there was NO FORTUNE INSIDE. Am I doomed now? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-an-ominous-omen/918789/2 "2020-08-23T02:18:06Z")
No, this is a good omen! When one is empty, you get to write your own… ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-an-ominous-omen/918789/3 "2020-08-23T03:55:56Z")
Oh, dude! I’m so sorry. Maybe this will help: @discobot fortune ---
**Author:** ![discobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/discobot/32/570_2.png) [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-an-ominous-omen/918789/4 "2020-08-23T03:55:57Z")
> 🔮 As I see it, yes ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-an-ominous-omen/918789/5 "2020-08-23T03:56:37Z")
There ya go. Perfect fortune. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-an-ominous-omen/918789/6 "2020-08-23T04:00:29Z")
Aw, man! We just switched over to this new set up like a month ago, and the boards are _already_ malfunctioning. I mean, it’s been _years_ since we had one of those weird threads without an OP. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-an-ominous-omen/918789/7 "2020-08-23T04:25:35Z")
I should have read, " Intestinal discomfortment is on the horizion" ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-an-ominous-omen/918789/8 "2020-08-23T04:50:46Z")
Ha. I read this as you cracked it open… …and it said NO FORTUNE INSIDE. But I like you getting a naked cookie. I agree, you get to write your own future (literally, if you get a skinny marker and write on a slip of paper). … I used to print out my own fortunes before we went to a Chinese restaurant. Then I’d grab my sister’s cookie and break it. When she yelled, I’d hand her the pieces and “her” fortune.They always said things like: **EVERYONE AT THE NEXT TABLE IS JUDGING YOU**. ::::::: Lucky Numbers: 34, 21, 13, 8, 5, 3, 2, 1, 1 :::::::::: ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-an-ominous-omen/918789/9 "2020-08-23T04:59:03Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](#): > > I ordered from Panda Express, and it came with a fortune cookie in a little baggie. > > I tore open the baggie, took out the cookie, cracked it open… > > …and there was NO FORTUNE INSIDE. > > Am I doomed now? This exact same thing happened to me. I told my wife that I was either about to die or I had to make my own luck. That was a couple years ago, and I’m not dead yet. ---
**Author:** ![Ynnad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4491bb/32.png) [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-an-ominous-omen/918789/10 "2020-08-23T06:23:47Z")
It’s still better than the one I saw a long time ago that said, “This fortune intentionally left blank.” ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-an-ominous-omen/918789/11 "2020-08-23T07:42:13Z")
I still have a fortune slip from a long ago Chinese restaurant we stopped at. On the way to a Dance audition. I got the call and went there for 2months dancing to the Nutcracker. I didn’t open the cookie til it was all over. Performances were well received. The fortune ‘this will not be a happy experience’ They lied. It was fun, hard work. I loved every minute of it. It was the last big ballet I was in. Oh …wait…it was sad, come to think of it. My dance career veered off into left field. Dang, how prophetic. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-an-ominous-omen/918789/12 "2020-08-23T12:42:55Z")
I got an empty fortune cookie once. It came true. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-an-ominous-omen/918789/13 "2020-08-23T13:25:25Z")
Happened to my wife once. Our favorite Chinese buffet hands you a fortune cookie on your way out the door. We get to the car–no fortune in hers. Next time we’re there, I ask the manager about it, expecting something inscrutable/ominous. Without missing a beat, he fires back **No news is good news?** Big laffs. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-an-ominous-omen/918789/14 "2020-08-23T19:50:10Z")
Remember Alan King? “Help! I’m being held prisoner in a Chinese fortune-cookie factory!” ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-an-ominous-omen/918789/15 "2020-08-24T22:38:26Z")
Twice I’ve gotten a fortune cookie with two fortunes inside. I’m pretty sure they included the ones that should have gone to **Two\_Many\_Cats2** and **Siam\_Sam** , but I couldn’t tell which ones were extra and, after all this time, I couldn’t remember them anyway. If it makes you feel better, they weren’t frightening, or I’d have remembered at least that.