Since my childhood, I’ve always heard the little rhyme :
Find a Penny
Pick it up
And all the day
You’ll have good luck.
But then I’m about to do it the other day since I need all the luck I can get when my daughter says “Better look at it first. If it’s tails, you’ll have bad luck.”
Now, I had never heard anything about this; nothing in the original poem says anything about there being any cessation of luck depending on whether the penny has landed on either heads or tails. It merely says
Find a Penny
Pick it up
And all the day
You’ll have good luck.
Did I miss a memo somewhere?