unlucky alley

there are two alleys i can take to leave my apartment: one goes by a brothel and the other by a church. walking past the former is disgusting as there is often vomit, smashed beer bottles and 'tools of the trade' blowing around.

today i picked up a crazy chinese coin from the brothel alleyway and suddenly my luck changed: it started pouring down rain, the shop i wanted to go to closed early, the other shop was out of the sale item i wanted and i got a text from a friend who i had just stood up.

walking home, i returned the coin to the street and my luck immediately returned to normal.