While I’m not an overly superstitious person I have a thing for horseshoes. I’m not sure where this came from as I can’t recall being surrounded by them as a child or anything. They’ve just always symbolised luck and opportunity and I’ve always thought that having one, or even better finding one, would be especially fortuitous. So when something caught my eye on the black asphalt of the Woolies carpark a few weeks ago I got excited.

There behind my back tyre was a pretty ordinary looking horseshoe (snapped off a pair of earrings I think). I was so happy to find it that I put it in my pocket and forgot all about it til yesterday. I must have showed it to my sister several weeks ago and left it in her car. As we were driving home from the hospital after visiting our Nanna (who had a heart attack two weeks ago) Mandy noticed the horseshoe and told me to get it out of  her (insert expletive here) car. She’s had some bad luck recently and it appears that she blames it on the horseshoe. So sure was she that her bad run of luck was the fault of this innocuous piece of metal, that she wound down her window and flung it dramatically from the car.

What happened next was so freaking awesome that I wish you were all there to witness it.

So, window open, she flings the horseshoe out. A blink of an eye later, it shoots back inside the car and LANDS ON MY SHOULDER!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m in the passenger seat, mouth agape, laughing hysterically that the horseshoe came back to me! It landed on my freaking shoulder for goodness sake! Mandy, although laughing, was obviously quite perturbed by this. After all wouldn’t you be a little insulted if a lucky horseshoe chose someone else to bestow its luck upon? I know I would.

I took the horseshoe up to the newsagents this morning while I checked our lotto ticket for the $20 million draw. We didn’t win but I think this might be due to the fact that this particular newsagency has a lot of other ‘good luck’ symbology on the counter (like buddhas and ceramic four leaf clovers) which I believe canceled out the luck of my horseshoe. Next time I’ll choose a newsagent that is not so into the hocus pocus. Winner!

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