Don't believe in bad luck, per say. But if I'm not downstairs having breakfast well before the clock ticks 7 I usually have a bad day. Though that's probably because I end up being late, catching the bad 7:30+ traffic and arriving to work late and in a bad mood.

The thing with where I commute to is that if I drive there when it isn't very crowded, I can get there in 15 to 20 minutes. But in rush hour it can be somewhere between 30 and 40 minutes.