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Warmed-up Chinese fare.

2007-03-12

Good evening Boys and Girls,

...and now for something completely different:

Seems there was a guy walking along a busy two-lane road one day - obviously looking for something. There was a sidewalk, but he chose to walk along the side of the road itself, perhaps looking for something that had come out of his hand while driving this same route.

Cars flew by and some honked their horns, and a truck nearly mowed him down, it being wider than the cars and not being able to move across the double yellow even a little since oncoming traffic was busy too. The man didn't even look up when the truck's driver honked and then yelled at the man as he did his best to avoid making the pedestrian so much tire goo.

The truck driver was upset enough at the episode that he pulled off the road a couple of hundred yards ahead into the parking lot of a small machine shop, set the brakes and purposefully walked back toward the man, who still seemed oblivious to his surroundings, so intent was his search for whatever it was he was looking for.

"Hey buddy. What the hell do you think you're doing? I almost killed you a few seconds ago."

"Oh," said the man, briefly glancing up. "I'm sorry. I'm looking for my fortune."

"Your fortune? What are you talking about? You looking for change?" The truck driver reached into his pocket to see if he had any coins he could give the man.

"No, no," said the man, now with his eyes back along the ground. "It flew out of my car a little while ago and I HAVE to find it."

Now the truck driver scratched his head and knew he'd found himself a loony-toons. "Your fortune flew out of your car window?"

"Oh well. I suppose it doesn't matter said the man. I know it by heart anyway, but it changed my life, and I was really hoping to find it."

"What the hell are you talking about?" asked the truck driver as they both walked, on the sidewalk now, back toward the lot where the truck, and as it turned out, the other man's car was parked as well.

"Well, I went our for lunch with a friend of mine a few months ago to one of those all-you-can-eat Chinese buffets and when she brought the check, the waitress had placed two fortune cookies on the little tray with the bill."

"Yeah, they always do that." said the truck driver.

"Right, and I always pick one up and then trade with whoever I'm with... supposed to be a good luck thing. So we did that, but this time, my fortune was so profound that it immediately changed my life, and has made the last few months the best time I've ever had, and I'd been keeping it in the ashtray of my car since I don't smoke. I'll bet I've picked it up and read it a hundred times or more, but I had to charge my cell phone, and the lighter's in part of the ashtray assembly - and my passenger window was open and when I went to plug in the charger, the wind caught the little fortune, it flew right out... just back there. Sure wish I'd found it.

"Well, for goodness sake; what was the fortune?" asked the truck driver.

The man smiled, embarrassed. "You'll think it's stupid... but I swear, it hit me."

"Well Jeez.. tell me already."

"It read... 'When you judge people, you don't have time to love them.'"

The truck driver stared at the other man for a few seconds, then furrowed his brow and turned away. "You're right. It's stupid." said the truck driver as he headed over to his truck.

"Maybe. But for me, it was exactly what I needed to read, and... well, like I said, it changed my life." The man said, now talking to the back of the departing truck driver.

"Good for you." said the truck driver, shaking his head and opening the door, and climbing up into his rig. "Friggen' idiot." he mumbled, and released the brake.



Be good to everyone.

(This was a post form 7-12-05 I kind of liked. Most of the folks who would have read it are long departed from tBlog, so what the hey.)

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Spirited Minikin (2007-03-12)
Wow, this was awesome. Thanks for sharing it here.

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