How superstitious are you?

[Micca]

the beans alone aren't tasty, but the broth my dad used to make for them was amazing!!

I figured someone was going to say they liked them I suppose there are recipes that make a big difference, sounds like you dad had one.

I have yet to have black-eyed peas let alone luckily on New Year's Day but because I host a huge dinner for the entire family on that day, in your Mom's honor maybe I'll try them next year

Better see if you can get the recipe from Cindy's Mom In my experience they're sorta like lima beans.

 

[willowsnn3]

Not particulary superstitious. Have heard most of those mentioned but don't go out of the way to follow them.
Except for the one about giving knives/scissors/sharp objects as a gift(cuts the ties that bind). I won't gift those things but will let you borrow them.

 

[Squirlz]

Not really superstitious except for one thing. When we visit Robert the Doll at the East Martello Museum in Key West, I always ask permission to take his picture. All those letter on the wall are from people who failed to and wrote asking his forgiveness after misfortune befell them. The curse is real!

 

[DLgal]

Not at all superstitious. I haven't even heard of most of these things people do.

 

[DLgal]

When entering someone's house (even mine) I always leave through the door I entered.

Do many people have houses with more than one door that a guest would actually use, though?

 

[Hook326]

I still say ALL the time "knock on wood".

The only odd one I do because my oldest DS always does it....is I tap the ceiling of my car if I pass a car with a headlight out. I don't know where he got that from but in his behalf I always do it.

At work, we do the knock on wood all the time. Someone will make the mistake of saying something like “Crisis calls have decreased” and then there’s five of us knocking on wood to stop that statement from jinxing us

I tap the ceiling of a car when I’m in a car that’s gone through a yellow light. When I see a car with a headlight out, I say “padiddle” (first time spelling that out in my life lol!). Both those superstitions were common amongst my high school friends when we started driving 20 plus years ago.

 

[tvguy]

Not at all.
I think my destiny was set before I was born.

 

[kimblebee]

I knock on wood when talking about potential bad news/luck

I throw salt over my shoulder

I always say rabbits on the first day of the month when I first wake up. It’s supposed to bring you luck for the month.

I don't think I'm very superstitious, but my cousin is. I go to hockey games with her.

-- We always have to enter through the same door, even if the line is longer at that one.
-- She always wears the same outfit. (I don't, but if they lose, then I'm "not allowed" to wear the same thing to the next game.)
-- We walk around the concourse at the intermissions. If they're tied or in the lead, we walk one direction to "keep the momentum going." If they're playing poorly, we walk the opposite direction to "reverse the bad luck."
-- If one period goes particuarly poorly, she's been known to make me switch seats immediately to "change things up".
-- If they've won, we have to leave through the same door we entered. If they lose, we have to leave through any OTHER door.

I think it's kind of funny, but they're her season tickets, so I go along with it.

Can’t talk about a potential shutout. It’s such a jinx to do it.

Not really superstitious except for one thing. When we visit Robert the Doll at the East Martello Museum in Key West, I always ask permission to take his picture. All those letter on the wall are from people who failed to and wrote asking his forgiveness after misfortune befell them. The curse is real!

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What in the fresh hell is that?!?

 

[Kitty 34]

Not at all.
I think my destiny was set before I was born.

Whoa, whoa TV Guy...... let's keep this light; anything I do "superstitiously" or probably anyone else who's participating on this thread is not doing it for destiny situations!!

 

[low-key]

I am not but would like to add, my mom lived 82 years and never had a broken back, and I never stepped on a crack

 

[ronandannette]

I knock on wood when talking about potential bad news/luck

I throw salt over my shoulder

I always say rabbits on the first day of the month when I first wake up. It’s supposed to bring you luck for the month.



Can’t talk about a potential shutout. It’s such a jinx to do it.



What in the fresh hell is that?!?

How's it working for you?

 

[Katie Dawn]

At work, we do the knock on wood all the time.

I always say "knock on particle board" because there's not much actual wood around the office anymore!

I'm soooooooo not superstitious that I even delivered one of my babies on a Friday the 13th and didn't give it a second thought. So far, it has been my luckiest Friday the 13th ever. My doctor was supposed to be off duty at 8 am and I managed to arrive at the hospital around 7 am, so she stuck around the few extra minutes and caught him at 8:05.

I got married on a Friday the 13th so can't even blame a baby - we knowingly picked that date!
Been married almost 20 years so I guess that's pretty lucky!

 

[kimblebee]

How's it working for you?

Depends on the definition of good luck.

I still have my husband (good luck), but he spent three months in the hospital (bad luck). The good outweighs the bad lately

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Yes I am, either superstition or OCD. I was talking about this with a girl at work yesterday in fact. I have to lock the filing cabinets in a certain order. It came up because I was at one end of the room and went all the way across and started over on the other side. I said that I know it looks weird that I walked all the way over here to start, but I have to lock these in a certain order. She was like "I get it, I do that too".

I remember the episode of FRIENDS when somebody said "I have to turn the light switch on and off seventeen times before leaving a room or my family will die". I get that kind feeling about things too, and I didn't even realize others did too.

 

[Kitty 34]

At work, we do the knock on wood all the time. Someone will make the mistake of saying something like “Crisis calls have decreased” and then there’s five of us knocking on wood to stop that statement from jinxing us

I tap the ceiling of a car when I’m in a car that’s gone through a yellow light. When I see a car with a headlight out, I say “padiddle” (first time spelling that out in my life lol!). Both those superstitions were common amongst my high school friends when we started driving 20 plus years ago.

That explains my oldest son tapping the ceiling then as it was 20 some years ago when he and his friends started driving.

 

[Cindy's Mom]

I figured someone was going to say they liked them I suppose there are recipes that make a big difference, sounds like you dad had one.

Better see if you can get the recipe from Cindy's Mom In my experience they're sorta like lima beans.

I feel that they're just like lima beans too, unfortunately, my dad took the black eyed peas recipe along with the lentil soup recipe with him to heaven. He always made it when he was home alone and bored, so there are no witnesses. LOL

Do many people have houses with more than one door that a guest would actually use, though?

Well, yes. I guess it depends on the house. I have a front door, and side door and a back door. my garage is detached from the home, so all doors are in play. My whole neighborhood is like that.

 

[DLgal]

Well, yes. I guess it depends on the house. I have a front door, and side door and a back door. my garage is detached from the home, so all doors are in play. My whole neighborhood is like that.

Well, yeah, me too, but I hardly ever even use those doors. My guests never would. That's what I mean. How often would GUESTS actually use those other doors?

 

[Cindy's Mom]

Well, yeah, me too, but I hardly ever even use those doors. My guests never would. That's what I mean. How often would GUESTS actually use those other doors?

All the time. Strangers use the front doors, good friends use the side door and if we're sitting in the yard, people will go in the back door. We don't have a fence to get into our back yard.....everyone always walks up my 125 foot driveway to access the side and back doors. We have a very familiar and unique neighborhood in the city - its an island of Mayberry. If you haven't lived there over 50 years, you're the new kid on the block.

 

[RangerPooh]

Not really. I will occasionally "knock on wood", but don't really expect it to ward off anything. And ladders, well I try to avoid walking under them so that I don;t bump into it or have something fall on me form above. Common sense.

 

[Alsobrook]

Not at all. Superstitions are bunk.