Fortune Cookie Missions: Modern Fantasy

Your mission for this year is to worship Odin. He stared at the fortune cookie in his hand, his eyebrows raised. Well, that was a new one to him. Usually they just told him his lucky numbers, or said he'd meet a handsome stranger (that one had turned out to be his boss). They weren't prone to delivering marching orders. Of course, a long time ago he'd started following or searching out the ways that fortune cookies told him. It started when he was maybe 22, just out of college, and a fortune cookie had told him that the sky would empty over his head. He'd happened to lookup at just the right time to see a window-washer spill his bucket fifteen stories above. A quick sprint into the doorway of the building had kept his new interview suit from being ruined.

Inspiration: cvalenti talking about worshiping Odin, myself looking at a cleaning mission, and remembering gunn being unhappy with a fortune that gave her a direct order.
Story Potential: High.
Notes: Neat. Super-neat. Nifty, maybe-a-novel-length good idea neat. My main concern with it is whether it would tread too close to territory owned by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaimon, and Tim Powers. Of course, I'm a firm believer that there are no "too old" ideas, just tired writers.