Write-a-Fortune Cookie

[Aspergirl4hire]

Stolen, shamelessly, from the San Francisco Writer's Grotto Prompt:

"Write last year's fortune cookie. It got everything right."

I wrote:
"You will discover the loose screw in an engine that has backfired all of your life, while there is still gas in the tank."

 

[watersprite]

"Those who conjour mud into gold have large, hidden mouth."

 

[qwerty]

"A man who conjures gold into mud, truly understands wealth"

 

[tachyon]

Not original.

When confronted with a choice between two paths in life - choose the most difficult, because that's where you'll learn the most.

Don't ask me what to do if you're presented with more than two alternatives

 

[Aspergirl4hire]

Not original.

When confronted with a choice between two paths in life - choose the most difficult, because that's where you'll learn the most.

Don't ask me what to do if you're presented with more than two alternatives

The good invent, the great steal! Makes me want to ask about the road not taken, for you. But that's for another thread...

 

[qwerty]

"Your lost car keys are under the sofa"

 

[tachyon]

The good invent, the great steal! Makes me want to ask about the road not taken, for you. But that's for another thread...

Ha.. No, I have a history of doing things without giving much thought about the consequences such as leaving IT and becoming a commercial pilot
I contain a lot of fatal flaws but figure that I will be dead for a few billion years and should enjoy what I have now

 

[clg114]

"Your lost car keys are under the sofa"

No their not! I looked there.

 

[tree]

Stolen, shamelessly, from the San Francisco Writer's Grotto Prompt:

"Write last year's fortune cookie. It got everything right."

I wrote:
"You will discover the loose screw in an engine that has backfired all of your life, while there is still gas in the tank."

Is the idea to write a fortune cookie remark regarding the present, as if it were a prophecy made in the past,
but using the benefit of what has taken place since that point in time in the past?

 

[Vinca]

There will be light where you saw no light.

 

[tree]

The Hand of Logic will get its fingers
pinched when the Door of Opportunity
closes abruptly.

 

[Flinty]

We give you lucky numbers to sell our fortune cookies.

 

[clg114]

"That wasn't chicken".