Family Sues Fortune Cookie Manufacturer After Finding Filthy Fortunes
Â A fun family trip quickly turned into a nasty nightmare for the Bryant family of upstate Carmel, New York, after several lewd ânoveltyâ fortune cookies were mistakenly placed on their table.Joy and Matt Bryant planned a day of fun for Joyâs parents, Eloise and Earl, and for their 6-year-old daughter, Angela.âIt was Mum and Dadâs anniversary.Â  They really wanted to visit the Guggenheim [Museum].Â  Mom studied art way back when, and said she practically used to live there.ââSo this man was handing out restaurant coupons,â said Earl.Â  âIt was for a Chinese place, and you really canât get halfway decent Chinese up by us, so I took one. Â We goÂ down the street and the place looked nice, so in we went!ââThe food and the service were good,â he added.âI had the orange chicken!â said Angela.Â  âAnd then I needed another fortune cookie because I dropped my fortune cookie on the floor.Â  It said âYou will have a surprise very soon.ââThe fortune proved to be chillingly accurate.Waiter Eddie Tan explained what happened next.âThe girl was upset because she dropped her cookie, so I go back and grab a handful and put them on her plate, and she was very happy.Â  I go back to the kitchen and the mother screams and the father yells âWhereâs the boss?Â  Whereâs the boss?ââTan had mistakenly taken a handful of âadultâ novelty fortunes meant only for the staff to see.Â  The smutty fortunes were brought in earlier as a âgagâ gift to celebrate a co-workerâs birthday.Joy explained, âMy 6-year-old turns to me and asks, âMommy, whatâs a râjob?Â  It says âTonight you will get a râjob.âÂ  Well, I screamed out loud and my husband told my daughter never to say that word again.Â  Then we read the rest of them.ââThe next one said, âYou will eat some pâ- tonight,ââ she continued.Â  âAnd the one after that saidÂ âYou need to get a rusty trombone.â I was horrified! Â At church we got a pamphlet with every dirty word you can think ofÂ to teach your children not to say â thatâs how I knew what every word meant,â she quickly explained.Joyâs fatherÂ didnât understand what all the fuss was about.âMatt was getting the manager,â said Earl, âso I took a look at the other ones and they sounded okay to me.Â  I donât know what an âAngry Dragonâ is, but I figuredÂ it was something about the Chinese New Year. Â I know what a âpiledriverâ is because I used to do that all the time with my guys.âÂ  Earl is a retired telephone company foreman.âAnother one said âDo you like hobknocking?â Maybe I do. Â Beats me.Â  The last one I read said âGive me a blumpkin!â That sounded like a fancy dessert, and since we only got the orange slices and fortune cookies, I really wanted to get a blumpkin!Â  Then the waiter took them away.ââI raised Holy Hell!â Said Matt. âThe waiter explained what happened and said they wouldnât charge us for lunch, like that was going to make everything all right! Â I told him I was going to sue them and the fortune cookie company for emotional distress.Â  Joy still cries about how they ruined her parentsâ anniversary.Â  She was crying and we never even made it to the museum!Â  We were so upset, we let Angela go stay with her grandparents for a few days. We both just stayed at homeâ¦In bed. Er, reading our Bibles. Yeah, our Bibles. Thatâs it.âThe case of Bryant v. HungâsÂ is expected to be settled out of court.