Superstitions!
I am superstitious to the max.
Whenever I think of something bad [i.e. possibility of car accident, death, distruction] I have to tap wood three times.
If a black cat crosses my path when I'm driving I make three circles on the windshield with my fingertip.
I do not walk under ladders and I don't even own an umbrella.

Am I crazy? Yes. Do you have any superstitions?
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 19:21, 25 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Pfft!
I make a point of walking under ladders just to prove to the world what a load of cobblers it is.
( girlinthehole, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 19:51, Reply)

oh beautiful BGB, sometimes it's too much
do you often open umbrellas indoors?
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 19:59, Reply)

I certainly do.
I also put my shoes on the table which is supposed to be bad luck.
( girlinthehole, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 20:04, Reply)

Really? Wow.

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 20:07, Reply)

Because you walk where animals can piss, and you eat off that table.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 21:04, Reply)

Last time I walked under a ladder
I brushed up against a wall and got paint all over my coat. The reason the ladder was there in the first place was so they could paint the wall.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 20:01, Reply)

ha

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 20:18, Reply)

This happened in your stupid country
I blame you.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 20:31, Reply)

YOU'RE the one who walked under it, it's your stupid fault

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 20:56, Reply)

I ought to be rational
But I still get jumpy about the single magpie thing.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 20:10, Reply)

I'm going to have to look these up, which may good and informative or bad and habit forming

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 20:18, Reply)

OK, let me explain.
Magpies are a sort of black and white crow.

The superstition is that if you see one magpie it'll bring you sorrow, but if you see a pair you'll be happy.

Thing is, they're such antisocial birds that you generally only ever see them on their own.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 20:24, Reply)

how incredibly shit

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 20:27, Reply)

Yes, it may appear so.
And probably is.

But it's my very own shit and if I want to worry about it I will.

Thanks.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 20:37, Reply)

I'm not saying it's shit to worry about it
but I imagine if you see them often you're worried a lot
maybe thats the whole meaning of it anyway, get you depressed because you think there will be something bad happening
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 20:57, Reply)

Perhaps I ought to explain...
That it's not deep seated worry.

It's more a "Oops there's a Magpie. What's going to befall me, eh? Tee hee hee" sort of thing.

Magpies are a very common bird in this country. If I had a panic attack every time I saw one I'd be confined to bed by now.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 21:06, Reply)

correlation cannot imply cause and effect
silly old wives
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 20:44, Reply)

Sometimes, I pretend there's a zero-sum game going on
All good luck and bad luck eventually cancel eachother out. That belief was one of the underlying themes of my trip to the States.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 20:34, Reply)

why where you in the states?
business or pleasure?
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 20:48, Reply)

I can't kill moths or other small creatures, and get quite upset when other people do.
As [in a time where I was in trouble], I was at my mums, it was pouring down with rain outside, and we were in the conservartory and a butterfly came out of no-where (and I don't see where it could have come from), and I took that as a sign.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 20:58, Reply)

oh wow
they say butterflies bring good luck
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 21:08, Reply)

Butterflies can live,
but spiders must die. Sorry.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:32, Reply)

Speak your dreams and watch them die.
I've had it happen pretty much every damn time. If there's something I really want to have happen, I make no reference to it for this reason.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 8 Oct 2009, 21:01, Reply)

Would you care to elaborate?
In a circumspect way.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 21:28, Reply)

Sure.
Basically, it's ronseal- if you have something really good potentially coming to you and you say something about it along the lines of "Hey, guess what? I've got a line on the coolest job ever!" it will invariably not work out. If you talk about something you're really hopeful about, somehow it will go tits up. If you tell people that you plan on your life going in a particular direction and you're formulating plans based on that, inevitably something will change to make it not come to be.

"Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh."
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 8 Oct 2009, 22:30, Reply)