A Fortunate Proposal

(My boyfriend and I are having dinner with his siblings and some other friends. We’re having Chinese takeout, and afterward, there are fortune cookies. My boyfriend passes them out.)

Brother #1: “Mine says ‘Your future will be happy and productive.’ I hope so!”

Me: “Mine is ‘Believe in yourself, and others will, too.’ I like that.”

Boyfriend: “Wait, what? Let me see yours.”

(He takes my fortune and reads it, then looks in the takeout bag, looking confused.)

Brother #2: “Guys, my fortune says ‘Will you marry me?’ What?”

Boyfriend: “Oh, f***!”

(He leans across the table, snatches the fortune out of [Brother #2’s] hands and gives it to me.)

Boyfriend: “Well, no one can say I didn’t try.”

(I said yes.)

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