Again?

There are some women out there who just don't like men. You can try to be nice to them, but it doesn't really matter because their minds are already made up ... like all guys are the same. Anyway, this woman is going to throw away her fortune cookie, and I say, "That would be a waste, I'll eat it if you don't want to. Who knows, maybe there will be some winning lottery numbers in there." So she gives me the cookie, and I start eating it and looking at the fortune. And she says "What does it say?" And I say "34 15 39 ..." And she says "No, not that; what does the fortune say?" And I turn it over and I'm almost afraid to read it out loud, but now I have to. "Behind an able man there are other able men." She glowers and says "You're making that up. Let me see that", and snatches it out of my hand. She reads it, tosses it back on the table, and walks away. Maybe she had been expecting "Behind every successful man there is a woman"; but she never said a word.

Have you ever gotten a repeat fortune in your fortune cookie? I've had that particular fortune once before. It seems like there is some sort of cosmic force that guides the cookies to the right recipients; but we all know that can't be true. Still, I wonder why she didn't open that cookie herself ... or just throw it away.