True or false. I have always heard that walking under a ladder brings bad luck, but I have never thought so. I have walked under ladders many times, but I have never met anything bad before. It's the same with black cats. People say if a black cat crosses before you, it means bad luck. I have never thought that until this afternoon. But ever since I heard my student Sam's story, I have begun thinking about whether it was true.
This afternoon, Sam was walking down the street thinking about something, so he wasn't paying attention to where he was going; he walked right under a ladder standing against a building. A black cat ran out of a door just at that moment, and Sam fell over it. His head hit the ladder. A man washing the window was at the top of that ladder and the dirty water went down through the air. Poor Sam! He got wet all over.
