Yesterday was my 52nd birthday and to make things easy we decided to order take-away Chinese food. For a bit of fun I threw some Fortune Cookies into the online basket when I ordered – at 20p each and with four of us eating it was hardly the most extravagant act of my life.
Once we had devoured the main food, and boy did I devour far too much of it, we broke open the Fortune Cookies. I picked the one that had a green wrapper. I always pick green things when there is a choice out of allegiance to my football team, Plymouth Argyle. Anyway, the message in my Fortune Cookie was “Many successes will accompany you this year” which certainly seemed appropriate wording on my birthday. It should be noted here that the other three Fortune Cookie messages, delivered to my wife, daughter and her boyfriend were definitely NOT as appropriate. So I am now looking forward to the promised ‘many successes’. Notably, the slip of paper in the cookie also listed a set of six ‘Lucky Numbers’. I am not going to write these numbers down here but I AM going to buy a ticket for the National Lottery draw this evening. Wouldn’t it just be incredibly spooky if I end up winning the jackpot!
Tim O'Hare 
… needless to say, not one of the six so-called Lucky Numbers on my Fortune Cookie slip matched one of the six lottery numbers drawn last night.