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According to the numbers, last Friday (08/08/08) was the day to buy a lottery ticket, take your Nan to Bingo and try a virgin tandem sky dive sans parachute, because, well, it was a lucky day.

Although sceptics would argue that reason trumps irrationality, it seems there are just as many who believe the unbelievable – including, for example, the 16,400 Chinese couples who registered to exchange their vows on what is believed to be a lucky date.

Although I initially struggled to comprehend how a wedding day that coincided with such a massive sporting event could possibly be symbolic of a prosperous future (Him: “Sorry babe, I’m gonna be a little late to the Church – I just want to check out the lighting of the Olympic Cauldron.” Her: “No prob hun. All the girls wanted to watch Eamon Sullivan working the blue trackies, so noone’s here yet, anyway”), it started making more sense when I put my own nonsense under the spotlight:

Some egs:

1- I forward email chain letters that calculate the names of my future offspring, to 142 friends in six minutes (so I avoid 13 consecutive years of bad love luck)
2- I wear a lucky item of clothing, in the hope of, um, getting lucky
3- I never put new shoes on the table (Kinda tough , considering I average a pair on a weekly basis)
4- I believe the confectionary gods are smiling down when I find a higher percentage of brown M&Ms in the pack (The more chocolate theory)

So spill (the salt over your left shoulder)… Do you actually worry about old wives’ tales or just believe that superstitions are a sack of self-fulfilling silliness?