"Earthquake, earthquake!"

Whilst in the Asian aisle at the grocery store about a week ago, shopping for some Sweet Thai Chilli sauce to go with the coconut shrimp I was making for dinner that night, I spotted this lovely gem of a package:



Since they were only like a dollar something, I bought them, thinking, "what the heck, they'll be fun and go well with dinner."  And fun they were indeed. From the moment I got home and more closely examined the packaging on these bad boys, I realized these were going to be legit:

  

You heard it straight from the Chinese: fortune cookies are not only great for camping, parties, and picnics, they're good for anytime.

I wish I had been saving my fortunes from these cookies all week and could post a picture collage of all of them, because they truly were like nothing you could ever imagine you'd find in an oriental dessert. But, alas, I threw most of them away.  So I can only share with you my favorite one; one that I loved so much, in fact, that is taped to a notecard and hanging on my wall as we speak you read:

An alien of some sort will be appearing to you shortly!

Now, I don't know if maybe there was some kind of deeper, metaphorical meaning that was lost in translation or something, but....that's almost as good as those little fortunes kids come up with when they make these things:

I'm sad to report that I have yet to have any extra terrestrial appearances thus far, but....I'll keep you posted. 

P.S. ten points if you can figure out how the title of this post is relevant. (I know it probably seems like they're sometimes random, but I assure you, this one isn't!)