The Eye

All that Bill Doyle knew about jinxes which was plenty he had learned from his grandfather. Eyes fourteen! the old man would shout at Doyles retreating back whenever he went out. The full Greek expression was You must have fourteen eyes for danger and Pappou a refugee knew that even fourteen eyes werent enough because if God wanted to hed give you a whack from your blind side and the fifteenth or the eighteenth or the twenty-third would knock you senseless. The moral was do what you can but dont expect much. And so Doyle was sure that something would go wrong today no matter how many precautions he took.