Setting: A sunny afternoon in a cozy café in Seville, Spain. Two friends, Lucía and Carmen, are sipping cortados and nibbling on churros.
Lucía: (gasping) ¡Carmen! ¡Levanta tu bolso del suelo ahora mismo!
Carmen: (glancing under the table) What? Why?
Lucía: (pulling it up dramatically) You put your purse on the floor! Don’t you know that means you’ll lose all your money?
Carmen: (laughing) Ay, Lucía, not this again. You seriously believe the floor is cursed or something?
Lucía: Not cursed—just… unlucky! It’s an old tradition. My abuela used to scold me for it all the time. She’d say, “El dinero se va por el suelo.”
Carmen: Your abuela also believed garlic kept away bad vibes and slept with a cactus next to her bed. Come on, Lucía, it’s just a floor.
Lucía: Just a floor? That’s where all the dirt, dust, and energy gathers! You’re basically grounding your wallet in misfortune.
Carmen: Grounding it in misfortune? Sounds like you’re trying to charge your bank account with negative ions.
Lucía: I’m serious, Carmen. Ever since I started keeping my purse off the floor, my finances improved. I got that surprise bonus last year, remember?
Carmen: Lucía… you got that bonus because you worked overtime for three straight months and didn’t take a single day off. Not because you hung your bag on a chair.
Lucía: Still, I’m not taking any chances. Remember Marisa?
Carmen: Your cousin who invested all her savings in crypto and bought that weird llama NFT?
Lucía: Exactly. Always threw her bag on the ground like it was a gym towel. Now she’s broke.
Carmen: That has nothing to do with the floor! If financial ruin came from floor contact, toddlers would be bankrupt.
Lucía: (snorting) Toddlers are always broke. Coincidence?
Carmen: Oh please. Look, I get it—superstitions are comforting. They give us a sense of control. But there’s no scientific evidence that the floor is a money magnet—or a money vacuum.
Lucía: So you’re saying it’s all in my head?
Carmen: Not exactly. I think habits like yours can be good if they make you more mindful. If keeping your bag elevated reminds you to respect your money, great. Just don’t confuse cause with effect.
Lucía: Hmm. That makes… a bit of sense. But what about energy flow? Feng shui says—
Carmen: Oh, not feng shui! Next you’ll be rearranging my chairs because Mercury’s in retrograde.
Lucía: Well, Mercury is in retrograde, and your living room could use a little flow…
Carmen: (laughing) You’re impossible. Tell you what—I’ll stop putting my purse on the floor if you agree to read one article on cognitive bias and logical fallacies.
Lucía: Only if it has pictures.
Carmen: Deal. And maybe you can teach me how to align my furniture with the universe while you’re at it.
Lucía: Careful—mock the universe and it might mock your bank balance. (winks)
Carmen: Then I guess I’d better start hanging my purse from the ceiling.
[They both burst into laughter as Carmen mockingly lifts her purse onto her lap like it’s a sacred relic.]
Lucía: Admit it—you’re coming around.
Carmen: I’m humoring you. But for the record, if I win the lottery next week, I’m crediting gravity.
[Fade out with churros being dunked and playful banter continuing as the Spanish sun casts long shadows across the café floor.]
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