I found three pennies last week and kept expecting something good would happen to me but it hasn t. How long or how many pennies does it take to get lucky?
A. How do you know you haven t been lucky? Last week, you were not, after all, run over by a truck. Last week, an ultraviolet ray of light did not strike the nucleus of a cell in that funny-looking mole you ve had for years, producing an aggressive cancerous mutation, but shot harmlessly through the cytoplasm and out the other side. Last week, the guy who was going to bang his car door into yours picked a different parking space after all. In an evil and unjust world, the absence of misfortune is fortune. Q.
