20.05.12

You finish your meal at a restaurant. The check comes, accompanied with a fortune cookie. You crack it open, expecting the expected — some trite proverb or canned note about new opportunities, success, new love, blah blah, lucky numbers.

Instead, you open it to: “You’re an embarrassment to your family,” “You will throw up on yourself tonight” or “Welcome to Failureville. Population: You.”

The joke’s on you, which is exactly what David Fenton, founder of iLLfortune , wants.

“I like to push the envelope and shock people,” Fenton, 44, said. “The goal is for people to have fun and prank one another.”

A self-proclaimed prankster with a background in stand-up comedy, acting and magazine publishing, Fenton launched iLLfortune in October. Though the company is based in San Rafael, the not-so-sweet cookies are warehoused in Union City, where they’re packaged and shipped by Silicon Valley Direct .

Source: Patch.com