Monday, January 01, 2007

pricelessnesses of my mother: volume 37, entry 8



When my mother-in-law arrived from Australia for Christmas, we all celebrated with Chinese food and some German Riesling*. My mom hadn't had a drink of any sort in a long, long time. She got a little sauced and ate her fortune cookie whole, fortune and all. She tries to deny this. She insists that there was no fortune in the cookie. But I saw her at the sink struggling with that cookie in her mouth. She ate that fortune.

*That reminds me of a joke I heard on the Dick Cavett Show once. What do you get an hour after you eat Chinese/German food? Hungry for power. My favorite part of that joke is that I got it from Dick Cavett.





2 comments:

girlysmack said...

Oh my God! I cannot stop laughing! At your mother, though Dick Cavett is pretty funny, too...

Christopher said...

Hopefully, the fortune wasn't along the lines of, "Something may upset you today."