Luck

It was a warm September morning, Burt Thompson woke up and started getting ready for work. He kissed his wife, hopped in the shower and started making coffee just like he had every morning for the past 10 years. Then Burt smelt something he looked around and realized that something in the garage had sparked. He called the fire department and got it all taken care of. He thought that the fire was very out of the ordinary, stuff like that never happened to him. Burt was late to work he got in his car and rushed over to the bank. His boss yelled at him for a bit, but Bert was fine he went and sat at his desk and started putting in numbers. Work was super slow. Burt wanted to go home and see his wife. Every day was the exact same to him. The best thing that had happened to him for a while was the fire. It was something different and even though most people would consider it bad, Burt just thought it was lucky. Most people don’t have that kind of thing happen to them. While he was lost in thought a man ran into the bank demanding for money. The police were called and everyone panicked. The man was holding hostages, Burt was terrified. He wanted to run, he has more life to live. The man saw him trying to escape and he fired. Burt felt a blow to his left shoulder. The police came and shut down the criminal. Burt was taken to the hospital and got some medical attention. While sitting in his hospital room he started thinking about how out of the ordinary today was. Then his wife walked in “hey hun” she handed him some balloons and a note she wrote. “How are you?”

“I’m okay I have just been thinking about how strange today has been”

“oh how so?” She asked.

“Well we had the garage fire and then the stuff at work. I just keep on thinking about how today was so different”

“but it was a bad thing”

“no I don’t think so, if you think about it, the things that happened today almost never happens to anyone. I feel like it was kind of lucky.”

“Honey you got shot today”

“Oh I know, but when was the last time you got shot? Exactly. Statistically I am lucky.”

“Okay, I’m glad you got to have you lucky day today.”

“Thank you”

They both sat there in silence questioning what luck really is. They knew today was out of the ordinary but was it lucky? Tomorrow would be the same as all the other days, but today was Burt’s lucky day.