We had gone to that restaurant for our first date, two years previously. When I'd opened the fortune cookie at the end of the date, it read "You are the star of his existence." Which, when you think about, is kind of an embarrassing fortune to get on a first date. "So what does your fortune say?" he asked me brightly.
"Nothing, really," I mumbled, and shoved it under my plate.
"But what does it say?" he asked, puzzled.
"Um . . .they don't really mean anything."
He grabbed the fortune and read it and laughed. And it was sort of a joke between us for two years.
I'd happened to note the date in my journal, so we decided to go back to the same restaurant on our two year anniversary. I had suspected that he might propose to me then, but he didn't say anything during the dinner.
Then I opened the fortune cookie, and it read "You are the star of my existence. Will you marry me?" His cookie said the same thing, of course, so no matter which one I chose, I would get the proposal.
I gasped and said yes after thinking about it for about three seconds. I guess there are places that will put a fortune into a fortune cookie for you. I don't know if he did that or if he pre-bought a cookie, fished the fortune out, and substituted the proposal himself. And then he had to pre-arrange things with the waiter. I think he did that during the dinner himself; there was one point when I saw a friend in the restaurant and went over to talk to her, and he might have seized that chance to talk to the waiter.
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We had gone to that restaurant for our first date, two years previously. When I'd opened the fortune cookie at the end of the date, it read "You are the star of his existence." Which, when you think about, is kind of an embarrassing fortune to get on a first date. "So what does your fortune say?" he asked me brightly.
"Nothing, really," I mumbled, and shoved it under my plate.
"But what does it say?" he asked, puzzled.
"Um . . .they don't really mean anything."
He grabbed the fortune and read it and laughed. And it was sort of a joke between us for two years.
I'd happened to note the date in my journal, so we decided to go back to the same restaurant on our two year anniversary. I had suspected that he might propose to me then, but he didn't say anything during the dinner.
Then I opened the fortune cookie, and it read "You are the star of my existence. Will you marry me?" His cookie said the same thing, of course, so no matter which one I chose, I would get the proposal.
I gasped and said yes after thinking about it for about three seconds. I guess there are places that will put a fortune into a fortune cookie for you. I don't know if he did that or if he pre-bought a cookie, fished the fortune out, and substituted the proposal himself. And then he had to pre-arrange things with the waiter. I think he did that during the dinner himself; there was one point when I saw a friend in the restaurant and went over to talk to her, and he might have seized that chance to talk to the waiter.
Sneaky. And yes, very romantic.