Forbidding Omen or Teen Billionaire?

It’s an incredibly good thing I am not a superstitious person because yesterday, out of nowhere, an Olsen twin dressed in black crossed my path.

Based on the hair I’m pretty sure it was Mary-Kate. She made a dash from a parked, black SUV into a building lobby, beelining right past me. On second thought, and basing it again on the hair, it may have been Ashley. But one thing I know for sure is, an Olsen twin dressed in black crossed my path.

Now an Olsen twin in black means different things in different cultures. In Britain or Japan, an occurrence like this is considered good luck. In Scotland, an Olsen Twin dressed in black on your front porch brings prosperity. For Italians, if an Olsen Twin in black sneezes, it’s a good omen to all who hear it. But in the Netherlands, an Olsen Twin dressed this way is not allowed in rooms where private family discussions are underway, and the Irish believe that if you in some way harm an Olsen twin wearing black, you’re in for seventeen years of bad luck.

Here in the U.S. where this incident occurred, it’s considered bad luck for an Olsen twin in black to cross your path, just as it is for one dressed in white to cross your path at night.

Personally, I can’t believe that in this day and age we still believe in superstitions like this. Why does an Olsen twin in black have to mean bad luck? Can’t it just be an easy, elegant look? Sometimes a girl doesn't need anything more than the basics, or maybe she just hasn’t done the laundry in a while. I just wish that as a society we'd move beyond such Medieval ways of thinking about a put together Olsen twin.