There are some superstitions that are deadly: not washing your socks or jock or under-jersey while you’re on a hitting streak, eating the same meal at every meal when you’re on a hitting streak, carrying your bat into Harlem when you’re on a hitting streak, and so on . . .
My family was at the Mariners game on Weds. - a perfect game. My brother-in-law didn’t want to jinx it by getting out of his seat to go get lunch. Diabetic, he almost fainted twice on the walk back to the car. I asked my wife “Why couldn’t someone else have got his lunch for him?”
“Oh..”