I work in a Chinese restaurant where we make our own fortune cookies.

We have microphones underneath the restaurant’s tables, thus we are able to listen in on the customers’ conversations.

We wait until we hear something of particular importance in the customer’s life, then make a fortune cookies whose fortunes are specific for that customer and the people they are eating with. Our customers are often shocked at how accurate their fortunes are.

If only they knew we were listening in on their conversations, they wouldn’t be so suprised. Last week, I was listening to two women who were discussing an affair they were having behind their husbands’ backs. The fortune I wrote for them was, “Stop cheating on your husband or an ugly divorce will soon cloud your days.” When she opened the cookie, she was noticeably shaken.

We haven’t seen her at the restaurant since she broke open that cookie.