Superstitions

How-doFolks · October 24, 2011, 09:04:35 PM

Anybody have any? My wife has alot, but mine have more to do with racing. And some are just from personal experience. Tell me the ones you believe in, not just the ones you've heard. Believe me folks, we're not the type of people to live in fear either.

We live out in the country & have lots of cats around, 2 are pure black, she will on purposely turn around if they cross her path.

666? We just dont do it.

Dont ever step under a ladder.

Racing superstitions. No green, no peanuts or sunflower seeds, no eating chicken on race day, no saying rain on race day. We dont even say rain when we are at SDC.

I know this all seems silly, but as another superstitious person told me once -- " i dont believe in them, i just dont take the chance. " He is the same guy that will not hotlap his racecar unless he talks to me first.

I just thought this would make a interesting topic.

rubedugans · October 24, 2011, 10:00:08 PM

The only Superstition I have is on an LP from 1972!!!

eagle1 · October 24, 2011, 10:27:10 PM

Per my post on the HomeStay thread. I guess the only one I fear is when you break a mirror? If so, I'm not gonna live till 125 like I planned.

rubedugans · October 25, 2011, 08:05:37 AM

I would love to teach a unit (and I just might now!) about superstitions and their origins. I own a black cat, go to church most Sundays, try to pray daily, have no problem with number combinations unless they are on a bill, Worry alot, but who doesn't these days?

In high school and college while competing in sports I would be in a routine of sorts, eat the same pre competition foods, sleep at the same times etc...but I have gotten past that.

I do know that mirrors at one time were an expensive, and important item for the wealthy. In order to assure their safety, the help would be warned that if a mirror was broken, bad luck would ensue. Needless to say, a stigma was placed on the breaking of a mirror.

As a manager one day, I was working a cash register, a total came to $6.66 and the patron refused to pay that exact amount, they paid $6.67 instead!

sanddunerider · October 25, 2011, 03:02:24 PM

superstitios? Maybe?

But the biggest one is if I cant get to the city at least once a month while open something BADwilll happen!! LOL!!

Avalanche04 · October 25, 2011, 05:42:17 PM

well how do folks, great thread!! and i believe barney fife also said I'm not superstitious just cautious lol, anyway i have a few. don't everyone laugh at once but i try not too step on cracks, i once threw a perfectly good T shirt away because everytime i wore that shirt i relief at work would call off and i would have too work 16hrs. the money is good but when you would have too work midnights too days that stinks man i would come home dog tired get a 4 hour nap and go right back in too work. i will not pick a penny up tails up and if i look at it and its heads down my guard goes up. black cats i try my hardest too stay clear of. that's all i can think of right now but when i think of more i will post.

eagle1 · October 25, 2011, 06:54:56 PM

Well Rube good news to hear on the mirrors, there are so many "tales" on that one, so maybe I'll still have a chance to live till 125??? (was told as a child everytime you break a mirror you take 7 years off your life)

Black cats I think actually bring luck so all of you who may stear clear of them may want to rethink? Funny though Avalanche I do find myself not wanting to step on cracks.....not sure why that is but I do avoid or extra long step over them so can see that I guess I may be superstitious there....mmmm.

rubedugans · October 25, 2011, 07:15:04 PM

I have heard that if you turn over a heads down peny, it will be good luck for you, AND the person who ultimately gets it.

MissinTheGreenTrams · October 25, 2011, 07:26:25 PM

I have to agree with sandune-maybe thats why physics is kickin my you know what......darn bad luck cloud...

tiffanylynnt · October 25, 2011, 08:03:47 PM

Everytime I find a penny (heads up), I put it in my left shoe for good luck. My grandma taught me that when I was real little and it has stayed with me ever since. I was cheering with some friends at a marathon in St. Louis this past Saturday and while we were waiting for the runners to pass where we were standing, we walked to a gas station for coffee. On the way back to our spot, I noticed a penny heads up on the sidewalk and I immediately stopped and put it in my shoe. Everybody thought I was crazy. But I told them, "Watch! Good things will happen to me today!"
I can't prove that good things happened, but nothing too terribly bad happened!

How-doFolks · October 25, 2011, 09:19:09 PM

My wife wont lay her purse on the ground or floor cuz her mother said not to cuz she'll never have any $$$$.

rubedugans · October 25, 2011, 09:35:30 PM

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Wouldn't your shoe get awfully full if in fact the penny did work?

I guess I am asking when is it okay to a.)take the penny out, and b.)spend same said penny? I have a got of lucky pennies, and don't know if I spend them or not!

tiffanylynnt · October 25, 2011, 10:53:43 PM

I toss the penny in my change jar when I get home. I don't leave it in my shoe!

DollarCityBoy · October 26, 2011, 05:30:19 PM

Everytime my grandmother would see Hay (example: in a field near a barn) she would lick her index finger on her right hand and press it to the palm of her left hand, then make a fist with her right hand and stamp her left (while doing this, she would make a wish). BUT, she could not look back at the Hay, that would be bad luck.

Also, anytime we were walking together, and something came between us, such as a column or tree, she would say "bread & butter."

Anyone else heard of these 2 things, or was that just her?

thelarsonsix · October 26, 2011, 08:32:09 PM

Quote from: tiffanylynnt on October 25, 2011, 08:03:47 PM
Everytime I find a penny (heads up), I put it in my left shoe for good luck. My grandma taught me that when I was real little and it has stayed with me ever since. I was cheering with some friends at a marathon in St. Louis this past Saturday and while we were waiting for the runners to pass where we were standing, we walked to a gas station for coffee. On the way back to our spot, I noticed a penny heads up on the sidewalk and I immediately stopped and put it in my shoe. Everybody thought I was crazy. But I told them, "Watch! Good things will happen to me today!"
I can't prove that good things happened, but nothing too terribly bad happened!

This is the way I've always heard the penny story told to me also. To this day I will never pick one up if it's face down. I don't usually put them in my shoe anymore, but I will pick them up if they're face up.