[optacon-l] Re: Yet Another Neat Optacon Story

  • From: "Natalie" <nataliej@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:15:35 -0500

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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