Like a lot of other people stuck at home because of Covid, I have been going through boxes of stuff that I haven’t looked at in years. I am finding a lot of things that I didn’t know I owned. I found a bagful of rabbit foot keychains. Judging from the tarnish on the brass ferrules, I guess they are at least 20 years old and maybe much older. I have no idea where they came from. If you are under 40 years of age, you have probably never seen one of these, but at one time, they were sold everywhere. Millions of people attached their keys to these keychains and rubbed the fur for good luck. People thought that rubbing a rabbit’s foot brought good luck. I once saw a man at a blackjack table in Las Vegas rubbing a rabbit’s foot before asking the dealer for a hit. Sounds silly, doesn’t it? After all, lopping the feet off a rabbit wasn’t lucky for the rabbit. There was an episode of Star Trek in which Mr. Spock looked at a rabbit’s foot keychain and said: “I fail to see how carrying the severed foot of a dead rodent in one’s pocket will bring one good fortune.” I thought that was a great line. If anyone wants some rabbit foot keychains, let me know. They are free. They have to be. It is illegal in Berkeley to sell fur products, which probably includes rabbit feet. But it doesn’t matter. I am never going to carry a rabbit’s foot in my pocket.