There was a brief time in the 1980s in which some Chinese restaurants gave out fortune cookies that ended “in bed”. Since there was no World Wide Web or social media at the time I have no idea how I heard about it — perhaps socially, from real people; perhaps on the news…

Anyway I remember hoping that we’d get a fortune that ended ‘in bed”, but we didn’t go out to restaurants much when we were in our 20s. Fortunately for us, we hit the “in bed” jackpot at an inexpensive Chinese restaurant in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. I don’t know if we both got one, or if it was just one of us, but here’s the one we got.

I tried to search the Web just now, but I cannot find a reference to this brief trend.