An everyday bizarre example of this is people considering themselves 'lucky' if they get h

An everyday bizarre example of this is people considering themselves "lucky" if they get hit by a car and live. They never say they were "unlucky" to get hit by a car! ------------------ Hakeeb A. Nandalal nanco@trinidad.net ------------------ My wife and I were hit by a truck on October 12th. I can testify that many people exclaimed over our good luck in surviving. Others said we must have a guardian angel. As these generally have been friends and relatives, who are trying, in their own way, to express their joy that we are still alive, we have generally tried to use humor in response, saying things like, "I wish the damned angel had done a better job, cna we get a different one?" or "Lucky? If we were lucky the truck would have missed!" Other people advised us to get lottery tickets, as our luck was "bound" to change. As we buy tickets anyway, I am sure that if we had won something anytime after the accident, this would have been cited as general support for somebody's new age ideas on luck. -- Reality is that which, godfree@magi.com when you stop believing http://infoweb.magi.com/~godfree/ in it, doesn't go away. Internet Infidel http://www.magi.com/~hac/hac/html Philip K. Dick http://www.infidels.org Humanist Association of Canada