Tuesday 13 March 2007
In Spanish-speaking countries, Argentina included, Friday the Thirteenth is not unlucky the in slightest. As it turns out, Tuesday the Thirteenth is. So, today was the scary bad-luck day here in Buenos Aires. (As it was last month, as well, but I forgot to write about it then.)
I took this picture today because it is of a rather unusual good-luck talisman, and I figured a superstition would be fitting today. This is my student Maggie, at the cafe where we have class. Around her wrist is a US Marine Corps tie, given to her by a group called, for unclear reasons, the "Ghostbusters." Evidently, this trick was tried by some unemployed guy who soon afterward got a job and made millions of dollars. Now, there is a little group of women in this apartment building who believe that US Marine Corps ties worn around the wrist will bring economic prosperity.
I took this picture today because it is of a rather unusual good-luck talisman, and I figured a superstition would be fitting today. This is my student Maggie, at the cafe where we have class. Around her wrist is a US Marine Corps tie, given to her by a group called, for unclear reasons, the "Ghostbusters." Evidently, this trick was tried by some unemployed guy who soon afterward got a job and made millions of dollars. Now, there is a little group of women in this apartment building who believe that US Marine Corps ties worn around the wrist will bring economic prosperity.
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