Are you superstitious? – Not my favorite type of question from the daily writing prompt but I’ll do my best.

Simple questions usually deserve yes and no answers. I don’t consider myself a superstitious person by nature. But there have been more than a few times I’ve practiced something I thought was lucky. So, I guess the answer is yes.

After I got my first cancer I used to go to this little greasy spoon near the hospital before each test, after the initial surgery. It became a ritual, after that first test was clear. It worked out for 7 years and many a breakfast or lunch, till another cancer took my lucky spot away. I never adopted another lucky spot fighting the second bout because that one didn’t feel too lucky.

There was one other incident where some kind of bizarre luck fell in my lap. I was sitting in stopped traffic on Rt 95 north and some moron wasn’t paying attention and nailed me in the ass at 60mph. The force drove my car under the pickup truck ahead of me. The truck that hit me had come through my trunk and back seat. I could see the Honda emblem as I looked between the bucket seats.

I’ll skip the long extraction process they had to do but unbeknownst to me I had a lucky charm in the car.

The serious concussion that took over a year to start feeling somewhat normal again and the nerve pain and numbness are still ever-present reminders. But the superstitious part is the glass Christmas ornament that was in the trunk survived. Everything else including golf clubs, steel tool box and tools inside were destroyed. It ripped the lock off the toolbox. It bent Craftsman wrenches. But it didn’t break this glass ornament.

That ornament was one of my mother’s that I must have left in there by accident when I was moving her things from storage. I’ve always considered that a good luck charm and I have it hanging in my basement year-round.

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