Sunbunny31

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Fortune Cookie Fortunes - 14, 15, 16

Tapping into the wisdom of cookies from the local hole-in-the-wall (craving hot & sour soup earlier in the week), so this batch has a different feel as well as one...well, you'll see:

At the end of each day, think "what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?"

Never a bad idea to review your day critically.

A distant relative will phone you soon.

Awesome if that relative works at an account you're trying to penetrate. Note to self - doublecheck LI for matching last names and use that in outbounding.

And...the total wild card WTF fortune:

A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.

Yeah...in sales, this just means make sure you do a quick mirror check before meeting your customer.

😂 Sales Humor

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lowhangersalesbanger

Executive

Account Executive

I love that this is something you do every week. I have yet another fortune cookie SNAFU to contribute this week. On Sunday, I took the family to our favorite Vietnamese restaurant, which for what I can only assume is for the Americans that don't know the difference between Chinese and Vietnamese food, serves fortune cookies. There is five of us so we had 5 cookies. I don't remember what any of them said, but here is the order of events.Oldest son opens his cookie and has one fortune. Is delighted. Middle son opens his cookie. 2 fortunes, is delighted, oldest starts crying.youngest opens his, 0 fortunes and too young to give a shit. Oldest is feeling better. Wife opens her cookie. 0 fortunes. We are all laughing becuse what are the odds. I open my cookie. I start laughing hysterically. 5 fortunes. Oldest is now wailing about the unfairness of the universe, middle is laughing at the oldest, youngest is talking to the air, wife is trying to console the oldest but she can't stop laughing so he thinks she is laughing at him which triggers a meltdown.
Moral of the story is, sometimes you can't please ANYONE

oldcloser

Arsonist

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ded.

jefe

Arsonist

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I can't tell whether this was very fortunate, or very unfortunate. I guess it depends who you're talking to.

Love it

lowhangersalesbanger

Executive

Account Executive

I enjoyed it.

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Vietnamese fortune cookies just hit different.

😂

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

I’m dying - this is awesome. Your oldest is now scarred for life, though.

lowhangersalesbanger

Executive

Account Executive

He'll be alright. Opened the door for a "life isn't always fair and that is ok" talk

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

….there’s the real fortune.

Also, you and your wife sound like awesome parents.

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

By “scarred for life” I mean he’ll possibly never forget it, and it may become a core memory after the rest of you have long forgotten it.

Just ask my little brother about the fruit cocktail cherry distribution. Decades later…dude still remembers. 😂

Gasty

Notable Contributor

War Room Community Manager

It’s weird how while reading this, I was imagining you(faceless of course) and the family at the restaurant and what that scene looked like. 😂

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Me too! I could totally visualize the scene. Laughing the whole time, as it brought back similar memories.

jefe

Arsonist

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FinanceEngineer

Politicker

Sr Director, sales and partnerships

I love this part of the episode, just like the t-shirt and vacuum part. Why Simpsons is a classic.

oldcloser

Arsonist

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The first one is a case study. Modern fortune cookie rep says:

Our cookies are backed by a 10 billion record consumer database and have a ChatGPT API, and a geolocation tool that personalizes fortunes to the consumer, web behavior, time zone, and time of day.

Instead of asking “what has this day brought to me,” for a breakfast cookie eater,it asks “what will you bring to this day.”

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