It’s going to be an awesome day. Either that, or I used up all my good luck early. I was out the door before seven-thirty, walking into a beautiful morning. I was looking at the cover of the newspaper I’d just bought on the way to my coffee shop ritual, when past the edge of the harrowing headline I watched my foot step directly into the middle of a wide pattern of scattered dog shit. My foot landed as my eyes watched, my brain powerless to stop my stride. And miraculously, dog shit everywhere, my foot stepped in that one safe, shoe-shaped platform of naked sidewalk in the center of the scattered, brown piles. Luck is with me… or is it all used up? If only a bird would shit on my head, as I’ve heard it said that this is truly wonderful luck, then I’d know for sure that the duffel bag I am bound to find later today will unzip to bundles of hundred dollar bills and not to some joker’s captured hornet’s nest.
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Where: M Shanghai Den in Brooklyn,New York
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I once witnessed bird poop land on someone’s head; it was another resident in my program, and we were walking from Elmhurst Hospital to a local Thai restaurant, and plop, in her long black silky hair that probably had been washed recently. She was one of those tough female surgical residents, and she just wiped it off with her hand and kept walking, and got pissed off if any of the rest of us showed sympathy or tried to help. Someone with us said it means good luck (the first time I’d ever heard that superstition), and we just left it at that, and we had lunch with crap in her hair the whole time. The very next day, she won the lottery. Not.