readings for english 2

This read was not as bad as the last one. The one about the mechanic was ok. I’m not a car junky I guess. She was interesting the way she spent her time fixing a car that is not even made anymore. These cars were hard to fix as so mentioned in the text. She takes it upon herself to learn how to fix it because she would not give up the car and someone needed to fix the car. It’s kind of creepy the way she describes the relationship with cars. I know she loves the cars. She has named every car she owns. She talks to them like they are human beings. She also talks about how she thinks every car has a heart. That she tells them goodnight before she herself turns in for the night. This a little strange to me. These cars are old not made anymore. I don’t see how she pays the bills. It must be hard to find customers. The cars are like 50 years old so soon she will eventually run out of cars to fix. Then she will run out of money lose the shop and the cars that she loves.
The fortune cookie guy was a cool read. He is vice president of Wonton Foods, inc. he also is the guy that writes fortune cookies. He never thought in a million years he would use his engineering-business degree to write fortune cookies. He was presented this job because everyone else could barely speak English. Well he sees that writing these fortunes is not so bad he gets his inspiration by letting it come to him. He does this by just observing his surroundings. He would see a quote and write it down in his little journal that he kept on him at all times just in case he might think of one or see one. I think it was funny how the numbers on the fortune cookie matched that of the lottery numbers and how so many people had won the lottery. He then explains how he only makes the fortune. The numbers come from a computer made to be random. He wishes that the computer could do the fortunes for him also. He then gets what he calls writers block and cannot come up with anymore. He then passes this on to another person to do the job.
The Johnny Depp one interested me the most. I have seen some of his movies so it was easy for me to read and understand it. I did not know that he was angry person but I also never looked into it much. It talks about how he started out as a musician and opened for Iggy Pop. That must have been cool to have been a part of. He also does not like the fame. This is weird because most of the people in Hollywood do. He likes being himself without all of that drama. So after running from being a teen idol, He does films that are not very big so he can keep his peace. Well after awhile he finds out he still is angry. One day he meets the love of his life. He then has kids with the girl he starts to settle down and starts to watch Disney movies with his daughter. He then goes to Disney to see he could possibly do a voice-over for one of the new moves. This is when he finds out about the new pirate movie that they were doing. He said that he would happily do it for his kids and now he lives a happy life with his family