Lucky numbers

I just buzzed up to the supermarket for a bottle of red, and pulled in next to a small car and noticed its number plate.

A personalized plate?

Six eights.

Forty-eight?

No, no, 8,8,8,8,8,8.

Chinese!

OBviously! But what was odd, no, I mean this was IRONIC, there were grazes and dents on the left rear.

Ha! So much for lucky numbers protecting you.

Yeah, that's what I said when I found I'd been burgled almost as soon as I had said 'White Rabbit' on the first of March.

Maybe... but you got past the ides OK?

I certainly HOPE so.
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