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bird shit .. again

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2013.08.21

For the thirteenth wonderful time in my life, I've been shit on by a bird.

As I was writing up this latest entry in my long-running story of bird-crappings, something odd occurred to me. A pattern, if you will, and it goes like this:

1. I was shit on now and then over the course of the years.

2. Then it stopped when I became a father. Stopped cold for four and a half years.

3. Then I had a second child, and in the next sixteen months was nailed three times.

So having an odd number of kids shields me from shit? But doesn't bird crap bring good luck?

rand()m quote

There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.

—Norman Douglas