#36: Fortune Favors
Numerous societies all over the world accord a positive connotation to the appearance of a clover with four leaves. Both the biblical Adam and Eve and the Celtic societies of the middle ages have been associated with it at various times. You probably believe that four-leaf clovers bring good luck, regardless of whether you subscribe to the classic or the contemporary account of their genesis.
To cheer up her boyfriend and give him more self-assurance when he was feeling blue, she fabricated a four-leaf clover for him and pretended that he had found it by accident. His outlook brightened, and he began to experience feelings of extreme good fortune. Because his girlfriend is so wonderful and always knows how to make him laugh, he can count himself among the luckiest guys in the neighborhood.
