June 13- Friday the 13th-Back with a Vengeance!

When I set out to write this blog, I glanced at the calendar and realized that it is, once again, a “Friday the 13th!” This is the day that, according to legend, is a day of bad luck. I’m sure I’ve written a blog on a previous Friday the 13th, stating how, in the past most Friday the 13th days have actually been GOOD luck for me. Believe me- I am not normally a good luck guy. I’m the guy who, of all the people on the block, is the one whose paper is not delivered. I’m the one who, while keeping up with traffic going over the speed limit, will get stopped by the police. I’m the guy who gets in the shortest check-out line- only to have the cashier have to call for help handling some problem with the one person in line ahead of me. Most recent example- though I’m supposed to get an economic stimulus check, and my last two Social Security digits are low- like, “first round of checks, supposedly should have received one” low- I still have not received the check. And- how do you let the government know that you haven’t gotten it yet? Nothing I see listed anywhere has a contact for that specific problem- no doubt, because less intelligent people who haven’t gotten theirs yet- and, aren’t due to get theirs yet-would be clogging up the phone lines or Internet.
Will today be good or bad luck? Do you even believe in the superstition? If so- what do you do to avoid bad luck? I know people who carry around some “lucky” object…and others who actually try to avoid doing anything out of the unusual, just to be safe. Here are some handy hints to avoid bad luck:
-do not travel on tollways. You will invariably end up in a cash only line if you have an I-Pass, or, in an I-Pass lane if you don’t. Make sure you smile for the camera as you pass through the toll gate, branded as a scofflaw.
-do not go grocery shopping. You will inevitably end up with the shopping cart that has one wobbly wheel. (That would be ALL of them…)
-do not buy a lottery ticket. You will lose. Just like you do every single day. Every. Single. Day.
-do not eat any leftovers in your fridge-seriously. How long has that chicken leg been sitting in there? When exactly did you first have that meatloaf as a meal? Do you think it’s just coincidence that those French fries are now fossilized?
-do not take advice from anyone’s blog.
Hopefully, these handy hints will make YOUR Friday the 13th
a big bowl o’ Lucky Charms-just don’t pour the milk on it, it might be spoiled…