FORTUNE COOKIE WRITER TO RETIRE AFTER 30 YEARS

For 30 years, Donald Lau has been the “Chief Fortune Writer” at Wonton Foods, one of the world’s largest producers of fortune cookies. Mr. Lau is leaving his position following a long period of writer’s block. He says he used to write 100 a year, but over the past year has only written two or three a month. “When they eat their fortune cookie, I want the customers to open the fortune, read it, maybe laugh, and leave the restaurant happy so that they come back again next week,” Lau said. The Wonton Food company produces 4.5 million cookies each day.
* Does each cookie get a unique fortune?
* If it was me, at about year 20 I’d start reusing fortunes from the beginning of the list, but, hey, I’m kind of a slacker.
* It’s not the writing as much as it is stuffing each strip of paper inside the cookie by hand.
* “Hello, I’m Donald Lau. Maybe you remember me from “You will be successful in love,” and, “Wealth awaits you very soon.”
* He looked over his recent fortunes and found them wonton.
* Writer’s block? This explains the blank pieces of paper I’ve been getting in my fortune cookies.
* Or when I’d get a fortune, it would be really lame, like “Tomorrow will be an okay day,” and “Wash hands after using restroom.”
* Donald Lau, eh? Now I know who to sue because those lucky numbers didn’t pay off.
* Mr. Lau says he wants to start working in longer forms of literature, like Twitter.
* Chief Fortune Writer – sounds like one of those times where they give you a fancy title to make up for your pay.
* I’m not sure but I doubt he made a fortune writing fortunes.
* Hey, this guy could cheat the system and put an extra good fortune in his own cookie.
* “You will win the lottery and have sex with a movie star.”