I used to be incredibly superstitious, part of my severe OCD in 2006-2010. I'd avoid certain numbers and times and such, like I thought that looking at a clock exactly on the hour (2:00, 7:00, etc.) was bad luck. I also tended to blame a lot of the shit in my life on a mysterious curse (mostly as a long running joke, but I did suffer from depression then).
Now I know it's all just probabilities, though My dad seems to often have really good luck at cards and such, though.
And no, 13 isn't bad luck, although the post number was intentional. Nor are black cats. I mean, come on. They're kitties! They're too cute to be bad luck!
For years I thought it was unlucky to go up or down a staircase and step on every step... (that is to say, you should skip a step or so, which I usually do anyway since I have long legs) I'm not sure where I got that superstition from, since I've never heard of it anywhere else, but there you go.
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I pick up heads-up pennies only. That and also some of my T-Shirts have good or bad luck based on prior experience and I'll wear the good luck ones for good things to happen.
They seem to randomly switch on me.
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I'm not particularly superstitious, but I recognise sometimes opportunity falls into your lap. You have to use it, though.
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Once I won about $200 CAD at a casino when my parents took me for my birthday. I was wearing a Boomkat shirt and thus it became lucky, so I'd wear it to casinos in the future sometimes
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I have bipolar luck, which swings violently from terrible luck to great. Often my luck involves dodging injury or death, or also escaping bad events. I also tend to win contests of luck, through my experience with rolling thousands of dice.
I also know luck does not exist due to how probability works. Therefore it's more for fun that I mention it--I don't really believe in it.
I have a weird luck with timing. Whenever I do something, it's right when something else is happening, or right when it's too late to act. Want to get a word in a conversation? We both start talking at the same time. Holding off to see if something happens? I give up waiting the moment it happens.
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