in bed
July 3, 2003
a fun game that makes any chinese dining experience turn into a pre-teen slumber party jamboree:
The In Bed Game.
to play, everyone cracks open their fortune cookies and toss the cookie pieces into the leftover sweet and sour sauce (because the cookies are more plastic than sugar) but keeps their fortune.
going around the table, each person reads their fortune aloud and (heres the critical part) adds "in bed" to the end. this makes dinner great fun and the fortunes more interesting.
You will be fortunate in the opportunities presented to you in bed.
i cannot recall where i first learned of this game, but i have been playing for years. i even introduced the game to b's parents and sisters when they were visiting a few summers ago.
You have natural grace and great consideration of others in bed.
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Oddly, I don't think that'd work for me. I collect vaguely hostile or threatening fortunes. Things like "Your luck will be hanged today" (ok, maybe that one) but if I don't get an adequately dark fortune, I'll make one up on the spot.
"Monkeys will dance upon your grave."
"With any luck, your death will be televised"
"On the road of life, you are a speedbump."
It's fun watching the reactions from the waitresses.
Last time I ate Thai I was really upset that I couldn't read the fortune because it was in Siamese. Then someone pointed out that the English version is on the other side. Stupid fortune cookies.
you get fortune cookies at thai restaurants? in fairbanks we get nasty poop-colored hard candies that taste like dirt covered roots.
last time we had chinese i got a fortune that said "in time you will get what you long for". it works for both "in bed" and "on the toilet". chris and i found this one particularly good, so we kept it. i taped it to his monitor.