Superstitions

[Lady Anne]

Being what date today is, what are your superstitions? Any quirky ones?

Black cats - I go across the street from them.

Enjoy the day!

[Lagula Longarm]

In a former life, I used to follow a premier league football club.
I had one or two superstitions whilst
supporting them.
One year when we were having a good cup run, I refused to shave whilst the team kept winning (sad eh !!) My beard like my team never amounted too much.
But worse was still to come.....One season we had quite a good run of matches without losing, naturaly I assumed this was all down to the clothes I wore including my pants(underware)and socks :eek:
So needless to say I turned up at every game wearing the same items of clothing....
and at this point I would like to point out that after every game the said items were washed ;)
Alas my dedication to my attire didn't match my teams dedication to keeping up a winning streak :(

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[Lady Marie]

In late April, a young robin landed outside my livingroom window, and paced the ledge, pecking at the storm window frame. A huge water maple engulfs my yard and front section of the house, and shades the front window preventing any glare which might cause the bird to see its own reflection. I remember being told that birds coming into your house is a sign of an expired loved-one trying to make contact with the living. Despite the "chill" of the notion, I felt I should help the little creature. I walked out of the back door and around to the front window hoping to drop a dish towel over its head and carry it back to the tree. As I reached forward, the bird hopped onto my index finger like a pet parakeet! I walked to the tree with the robin perched on my finger, and was amazed. When I returned to my kitchen, I took the still-clean-towel to put it away in the drawer, and out of the drawer fell a picture of my Aunt Hazel who passed away in 1986. The day before she died, she told me that she would try to find a way back to tell me "how it was" after death. And she died in late April...wooo-hooooo! Hello to Aunt Hazel, and salutations to you all from the new-kid-on-the-block. ;)

[Nathan]

Holy cow, Lady Marie! That's one wild story. Very fitting for your first post I'd say! smile.gif

Welcome to the madness!

The only thing I'm superstitious about is the belief that your actions toward others directly affect the way you're treated, by people you know or otherwise...in other words, Karma. smile.gif

Although I do believe in stories like yours too. smile.gif That's totally Necroscopish!

[ShadoeWolfe]

Ok, this might be unrelated - but one of my superstitions is that computer programs 'know' when you want to use them. And when you really need them to work - they sense it and stop working.

I know - far fetched ideda, but it seems to happen a lot...so it has to be real. Maybe AI is here and they just don't want us to know...? hmmmmm.....

[Ema]

LOL! Oh, you betcha Shadoe! Computers are Evil... heh heh

I'm not one for superstitions though, cripes if I was I would probably be dead as many black cats I have had (have one total black & a Tuxedo right now), walking under ladders (rather than walking in the road to be smushed by a vehicle... common sense right there), breaking mirrors (numerous times), etc., etc. I can go on... my views are as the Master says in his books.. "What will be, will be.." as well as "If its meant to be, it will happen".

Being the more spiritual type of person I do believe that we are all here for a purpose, some never realize that while others are blessed with receiving glimpses and acting on them. Everything we do in life has a purpose and whether it is a mistake you learn from or something good that benefits you and/or someone else, there is nothing you can do to keep that from happening... I mean, how can you know in advance whether or not something is a mistake until you've tried it?

But too, whether I believe in it or not, the superstitions of others is something that I feel you should never judge about as it could be a family tradition passed down, or a 'security blanket' which helps another. Thats what makes us all unique.

Hmm... ok, it seems the Queen of Rambling has emerged... Run For Your Lives!!!

coffee....

Ahem.. carry on my fine friends... :-D

[SpOOkshow]

I know Exactly what Shadoe means....Computers have a devious, evil, and frankly, malicious mind of their own.
As soon as you Really Need to use them, they kick back, and crash on you. There's no reason - just 'one of those things'.

Its like the need to use them is proportional to the crash involved...

The gits smile.gif

[Dark Mark]

I always speak softly to my computer and try not to chide it too severely when it crashes.
Whilst all around me the machines of my colleagues who curse at them crash every five minutes.
This could also have something to do with their filling every bit of memory with useless rubbish and dodgy wares of course.

[The Bloody Lady]

i didn't see this post


i'm not........just got this habit of winking at magpies...

[Psykhopaf]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Scarlet oHorror:
winking at magpies...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Hehehe you are mad :D

Ok me lets see...

I always walk on the right side of people... left side is always free.

[Vavara the Hag]

Heheheh,winking at Magpies! Thats daft!! You
salute them!! :rolleyes: Except...just try doing that surreptitiously on a bus! :eek:


Jen

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[Goth Girl]

I have an odd superstition... well, more of an obsessive compulsion really... if I step in a puddle with just one shoe, I have to get the other shoe wet too, or it isn't balanced...

OK, stop laughing at me now! STOPPIT!!

I do have a worse one, but wild horses couldn't drag it out of me! Although half a bottle of Tequila probably could! ;)

[Exsanguinator]

Numbers... A while ago I wrote about seven's and multiples of, and how they keep cropping up - At the moment I'm staying at a house whose number is 49 (7x7)...

All my life I've lived somewhere where 7 was a part of the house number until last year when I moved into a flat whose number was 2 - and haven't been right since!

I ain't supersticious - just think its w bit weird... not as weird as keeping the balance of wet shoes ( tongue.gif ), but weird!

[ShadoeWolfe]

Not really superstitious as far as I know.... I could become that someday but as of now... *knock on wood* ...I'm not.

I don't walk under ladders because something could fall on me or I could accidentally grab the rungs and shake the guy standing on it off... we wouldn't want that...

Black cats...well - they're creepy..you can't see them at night! Nuff said right there... just those eery yellow eyes...

Broken mirror - 7 yesrs bad luck? C'mon... I avoid broken glass because I have this tendancy to not want to get cut...

So nah.... no superstitions here... now fate? Well, that I might believe in... :D