ha ha I know this all too well
I take a leaf out of Neil Bohr's book:

An American scientist once visited the Copenhagen office of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Neils Bohr, and was amazed to find a horseshoe was nailed to the wall over his desk.

The American said with a nervous laugh, "Surely you don't believe that horseshoe will bring you good luck, do you, Professor Bohr?"

Bohr chuckled. "The clever thing is... I am told that it works whether you believe in it or not."
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