If you read my article 'Superstitions Can Kill You', available here on the UKbike blog, you'll have a fair idea about how I view such things.
So I have to admit that my confidence in my disbelief of a well-known saying took a serious knock yesterday.
'Bad things come in threes'
I'm sure you'll have heard it, but I've always said to people "But that's when you stop counting!".
On Thursday I logged into The Rev Counter forum, to read that a regular contributor - and from what I could tell from his posts, a thoroughly nice guy, had been killed in a collision.
The yesterday I eagerly opened the newly-delivered BMF Rider magazine, to read obituries of two old friends.
RIP George 'Foxy' Small, Bill Nicol, and Barry Pope.
Things happen in threes because you are looking for them.
ReplyDeleteIf one thing happens there is nothing odd - it just happens.
If two similar things happen close together then that is a coincidence.
The same thing rarely happens three times in close succession - but when it does, because you believe that bad things happen in threes, you remember it!