Friday morning, Joann is making her marvelous fluffy, cloud-like scrambled eggs. Lo, she cracks an egg that turns out to have two yolks. "Great," I say, "that portends good luck for you!"
A few seconds later she makes a sound. "What?" I ask.
"Another one."
"Another double yolk?!"
"Yeah."
Hmm. My wheels begin to turn. Does this mean Jo gets double the good luck? Or since half of the eggs are meant for me, should I get half (that is, one double-yolk egg's worth) of the luck?
Or, perhaps (best case scenario) it works like rolling doubles in backgammon. That would mean quadruple the initial quantity of luck, which I believe in any reasonable ethical system would be considered excessive and therefore it would be only right and good to distribute the 4x luck evenly between everyone in the immediate vicinity; i.e., Jo and me getting 2x the luck each. Even though I didn't actually handle the eggs until it was time to eat them.
But I did make the coffee. That should count for something, right?
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