My Bad Luck with 4 Leaf Clovers

Today is St. Patrick’s Day. That means you’ll see imagery of clovers everywhere, especially four leaf clovers. They say that finding one is good luck, and only one in ten thousand clovers have four leaves. But I never found one…and it must be because of bad luck…or maybe the clovers are bad luck for me specifically.

When I was a kid, we had a patch of clovers in our yard. Everyday, I’d go out and I’d look for a four leaf clover. No matter how hard I tried, I never could find one. Then one day my friend Allison came over to play. She was the most popular girl in school. She literally had a box of love letters in her room from boys professing their undying love for her, begging her to be their girlfriend. This was elementary school for gosh sakes! I didn’t have one love letter. Oh well. Anyway…back to the story! So Allison came over and we decided to go look for four leaf clovers. Back in those days we didn’t have smart phones so we actually had to go out and do stuff. Almost immediately after we started looking, she found one! A four leaf clover! Day after day I had tried, and immediately my perfect and prettiest friend found one the first time she looked. Well of course she did! That was her luck.

She ran into the house beaming at how she had found a four leaf clover, her brown eyes sparkling. My mother congratulated her and told her she should put it in a book to…