Guys And Luck

There’s a pretty good chance over the next couple of weeks you’ll hear the expression, “the luck of the Irish” which is sort of ironic because historically the Irish have been a rather unlucky group. Anyway this month’s “The Average Guy” feature in Men’s Health magazine is all about guys and luck.
Some of the results:

• 42% of men consider themselves lucky.
• 80% think luck is largely self-made.
• 1 in 20 will not fly on Friday the 13th and 14% of men avoid crossing paths with a black cat.
• 14% of us have played the lottery using the so-called lucky numbers from a fortune cookie.
• 45% of men wear lucky clothing to help their love life.
• 32% of men who are sports fans claim to have superstitious rituals
to help their favorite team win.
• 1 in 8 athletes won’t wash their socks as long as their team is
winning.
• Nearly half of the men surveyed said they have escaped death and
consider themselves lucky to be alive.
• 1 in 9 men carry a lucky charm with them at all times and its most
commonly a chain of some kind.
• 5% have tried to improve their luck by removing a coin from a
fountain.
• 1 in 6 men have visited a psychic.
• 1 in 149 believe in the jinx of breaking a chain letter while 1 in 5 think that’s hogwash but pass them on just in case.
• Lastly…..the man we think is the luckiest is Brad Pitt.

By the way as to the origin of “the luck of the Irish.” There is little agreement but some say it came from the gold rush days in California where a high number of Irish got lucky.