Superstitions

[omniwhore]

I was out, walking around with the boyfriend last night and a bird shit on his head. Mhmm you read me correctly xD Anyway, after i stopped laughing hysterically, I managed to get off my knees and offered this: "Well, some people consider that good luck". Of course, this lead to a heated debate on whether it was good luck or bad, leading to

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[state_fair]

It's funny - normally I'm a skeptic, but I'm addicted to superstitions. The two big ones I do are 1) Saying "rabbit, rabbit" at the beginning of every month and 2) Holding my breath while going through a tunnel. I also totally believe in the deaths / bad events come in 3s thing.

[bralesslut]

i've never heard of this rabbit rabbit thing...do tell :)

[state_fair]

There are different versions, but the one I follow is this: When you wake up on the first day of a new month, say "Rabbit, rabbit" before anything else and you will have good luck for that month. It's kind of silly, but I try to do it every month. After all, it can't hurt.

[risktobloom]

When I wake up I don't even know what day of the week it is, let alone what day of the month. I would fail miserably at rabbit rabbit.

[psychoknot]

I always hold my breath when I go past cemeteries. It's really silly and I always feel silly doing so, but it's just habit by now I suppose.

[intertribal]

I do too. My best friend in middle school said one of her friends did it, and ever since I always feel like I should... just in case.

[winslow_arizona]

Me too. I once heard that with the cemetery thing, you should keep holding your breath until you pass a white building.

Of course, that could just be something my cousin made up for the hell of it.

[princess122206]

Nope, that's how I used to do it too. Then when there was no white building for a while....we got a little freaked out haha

[plushabilities]

It's not really a long-standing superstition, but I always leave the quarter in the supermarket rent-a-carts ( I make sure they can't roll into cars, though). It's like an offering to the randomness of the universe, and I like to think that a free quarter might brighten someone's day.

[ginny_toxic]

at the college bookstore we have those quarter lockers for people to put their backpacks in while they shop. Sometimes people leave quarters in there for convenience and to be nice to others.

My friend was telling me about this, and then proceeded to check each locker and STEAL the quarter in them. And didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with that. I mean, it'd be one thing if she just found one while she was intending to use the locker, and kept it afterwards. Or if she was trying to get enough quarters together to buy food. But neither were the case.

As the type of person who's quarter she would have stolen, would you view that as crappy, or do you not really care once you walk away?

[emylicious]

I would think it was horrible and it would put me off ever doing it again

[plushabilities]

An offering to universal chaos is an offering to universal chaos. I've had days where the people who took the cart needed it, days where parents took the cart and gave their kid the quarter they were gonna use to get a gumball. It doesn't make a difference, the quarter goes where it wants to go XD

[janenx01]

If I spill salt, I throw a pinch over my left shoulder. My kids have learned to do the same thing and it makes my husband crazy. "YOU'RE WASTING SALT!!"

[invalidcharactr]

... like you were going to use the stuff that you spilled, right?

Just offer to reimburse him once you've used a box worth of pinches... in thirty years, when all of those pinches add up.

[ibeliveinfaes]

I do that too.

[alldayprayer]

I do that but I can never remember which shoulder it is so I just do both lol

[anasyrma]

Also on new years day we don't do laundry, because you'll wash all your good luck away.

That's so cute, aww. My family wears polka dots on new years and keeps a buncha coins in our pockets for good luck on New Years.

[monkeyswife]

I had a friend that didn't want anything larger than us to come between us while we walked (like a soda machine or a pole.) When it happened, he didn't say anything, but would just back-track and go on which ever side I had walked.

I thought it was pretty funny (because I had never heard of that before) and would purposely dart on the opposite side of something large.

I'm evil, bwa ha ha.

[ibeliveinfaes]

My family doesn't wash laundry on new year's day because we're too damn lazy :-P