[optacon-l] Re: Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
- From: "Natalie" <nataliej@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:59:23 -0500
Thank you.
----- Original Message -----
From: "don bishop" <w6smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 4:19 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
> Maybe it varies from one cookie brand to another, but the ones we get
> around here sometimes have chinese characters on the reverse side, and
> others have had a series of numbers, apparently your lucky number. But
> whatever it is,there always seems to be something.
>
> It helps to read them on a textured surface of some sort as they tend to
> want to slide around on a smooth table. It's even more fun if they're
> slightly wrinkled. <smile>
>
> Don
>
>
>
> On 12/19/2009 1:15 PM, Natalie wrote:
>> What's on the back? I have never tried to read one but thought it was
>> just
>> a fortune.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "don bishop"<w6smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To:<optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 1:18 PM
>> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
>>
>>
>>> Yes,
>>>
>>> I've been reading fortune cookies for years. It's also interesting to
>>> turn them over and read what's on the back.
>>>
>>> Don
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/19/2009 9:46 AM, Dan and Bonnie Tonge wrote:
>>>> That is a neat story, and I have also had times when I didn't think
>>>> there
>>>> was anything I could read on a box or something and then picked it up
>>>> again later and found that there was, even on just an electrical
>>>> adaptor.
>>>> Has anyone ever read their fortune from a fortune cookie with the
>>>> Optacon? I didn't think it would work, but hey, it did. I thought
>>>> that
>>>> was pretty neat reading my fortune with the Optacon. I thought the
>>>> writing would be too small, but there it was.
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Linda Gehres"<ljgehres@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: "Optacon List"<optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 8:31 AM
>>>> Subject: [optacon-l] Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yesterday I received a package which didn't contain any labels that
>>>> could
>>>> be felt. I scanned the
>>>> package on both sides perhaps too quickly with my Optacon, finding
>>>> primarily information about sending
>>>> packages via priority mail for a flat shipping rate but nothing as to
>>>> the
>>>> package's sender or
>>>> recipient. Too curious to leave it at that, I opened the box, thinking
>>>> that if there were a note inside,
>>>> it would be typed if the package was for me. Alas, the note appeared
>>>> handwritten, but I was too tired
>>>> and frustrated to try to discern whether the note was printed or in
>>>> cursive writing. A friend happened
>>>> to call last night, and I was filling him in on this whole story,
>>>> griping
>>>> that the post office had
>>>> probably, as usual, misdelivered a Christmas package to my address.
>>>> I decided this morning when I got up to re-examine the box, and
>>>> finally,
>>>> I found a zip code which I
>>>> recognized as being that of my brother and his family near Washington,
>>>> D.C. And the note turned out
>>>> to be in print and in all caps! So, the wonderful and beloved Optacon
>>>> does it again! All it takes
>>>> is a lot of patience sometimes!
>>>>
>>>> Linda Gehres
>>>>
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