SUPERSTITIOUS? YEAH, ME TOO

I'm superstitious about a lot of things, especially numbers.  I avoid the number 13 if at all possible.  Should a hotel clerk assign me a room with 13 in it, I'd reject it and ask for another.  I won't carry 13 dollars in my wallet, and I won't stop the gas pump at any dollar amount involving that number.  I don't like the number 9 either, but I feel good about 7. 

Do you carry a good luck item around with you?  Old time cowboy superstition says you should never carry a fifty cent piece in your pocket.  Don't wear yellow, and never put your hat on a bed.  I don't do those things, just in case they're right.  Do you avoid stepping on cracks in a sidewalk?  I'll have to admit to not worrying about cracks in sidewalks.  And then there's the thing about black cats.  I'm not superstitious about that, but I will admit to backing up and going around the block to keep from crossing a black cat's path that just ran across the street in front of me.  I love cats, though - even black ones.

There's some scientific evidence to show that some superstitions hold up, like the one about full moon nights being bad.  Ask a cop and see what he says about it, and you'll find that many of them dread full moon nights.  But most superstitions are bunk, just a bunch of nonsense.  Dan Moreno wore the number 13 when he played professional football, and he ended up being one of the most productive quarterbacks to ever play the game.  I could go on and on about how numbers mean nothing at all, but I can't help myself when it comes to 13.

2013 has been a crappy year for me.  It's been tough financially, demanding in terms of my work load as a writer, and difficult in other ways.  Two trips to the hospital due to health problems, one that damn near got me . . . that's been my year.  But . . . it's also been a lucky year.  I didn't die, or at least I've survived to date, and a few good things happened.  I won't be sorry to see it end.  Writing checks the first few months of each year is always hard for me 'cause I usually screw up the date . . . but that's not likely to happen this time around.  2014 can't come to soon for me.

By the way, Moreno never played on a team that won a Super Bowl.