OT - Bad luck at the Asian restaurant

There is a new Asian restaurant in town that is quite good. We've been there several times and decided to go on Saturday night. We had the usual good egg roll and Chinese dishes (they have all sorts of Asian, not just Chinese). The server dropped off the bill with chocolate fortune cookies, love those over the standard ones. The wife cracked hers open and let me read her fortune. I open mine, cracked it open... uh, oh, no fortune in it. I quipped to her, "must be bad luck". Let me say I don't put any stock in that sort of thing or astrology or palm reading or such nonsense, until now, at least a little. I ate my cookie, put the money in the folder and look up and being lead to a table is this hateful women that we used to be friends with, her "boyfriend" and her brother and a women we assume is the girlfriend or wife of the brother (last we heard he divorced his first wife). The host seated her and the party right next to our table. Thank the Lord we were done and ready to leave. I did look up and said "Hi" as they walked by, just out of habit, but with no acknowledgement of our existence from them. We used to work with her and her deceased husband on showing livestock for many years and even traded breedings to our studs.

So, talk about bad luck, having to run into someone we've avoided for many years and hope to never see again. I might want to start paying more attention to the nonsense.

Well at age 69, I do not go out of my way to
avoid anyone. Trouble, yes; people no:
unless it certain politicians.

Friends come and go-----Enemies accumulate.

But, I have now reached that wonderful stage in my life where I dont give a damn what anyone else thinks of me and can do a real good job of just wiping people out of my brain. Not gonna give em the priviledge of living "rent free" in my brain. Forget em. They dont exist. Dont need em.

And when I forget about those hateful, pissy kinda people, I am much happier.

Happy, happy, happy!!

gene

Read the title and was think you were going to say your dog was missing from the truck when you finished eating.

If you avoided them for many years why even bother to make eye contact let alone say hello.

I was thinking cat!

Next time ask for another fortune cookie.

There is a Chinese cook book out now. The title is, 100 ways to wok your dog. Stan

When working in my township I wave at pretty
much every car that comes my way, or at
least notices my existence. I have been out
there long enough to know pretty much every
car and driver and where they live, and
whether they will wave or not. One person I
have never met, never done wrong will NEVER
wave to me, whether I fixed the trench I
front of his mailbox or scraped his road. I
still wave out of habit, but it still ticks
you off when they think they are so much
better than you that they won't wave. Saw
him today, and mistook him not pulling out
of his driveway in front of me while
scraping as a nice gesture, so I waved as
usual and he looked right at me and shook
his head. At least there's only a very few
like that, but I feel bad if someone waves
to me or says hi and I didn't see them or
hear them.

Should have greeted them like it was Old Home Week,get them to wondering what was going on.Personally I've never been able to hold a grudge very long just ain't worth the bother.

Maybe you forgot to pet the fortune cat on your way in.
Fortune cats

(quoted from post at 19:19:11 07/11/16) When working in my township I wave at pretty
much every car that comes my way, or at
least notices my existence. I have been out
there long enough to know pretty much every
car and driver and where they live, and
whether they will wave or not. One person I
have never met, never done wrong will NEVER
wave to me, whether I fixed the trench I
front of his mailbox or scraped his road. I
still wave out of habit, but it still ticks
you off when they think they are so much
better than you that they won't wave. Saw
him today, and mistook him not pulling out
of his driveway in front of me while
scraping as a nice gesture, so I waved as
usual and he looked right at me and shook
his head. At least there's only a very few
like that, but I feel bad if someone waves
to me or says hi and I didn't see them or
hear them.

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Don't be too hard on him. He may have been raised that you only wave to people you know. I wave to everybody and feel really bad if someone raises an index finger just as we pass because I didn't wave. Lot's of out of state oil workers here now, nice guys, but don't understand waving to people you don't know.