Name them.


my mom was wicked superstitious when I was growing up and I always felt it was kinda batshit insane, but she's my mom and I love her

she'd always lift her feet from the car floor while driving over railroad tracks, not sure why?


sometimes i realize some of this crap rubbed off on me and I caught myself avoiding being the 13th poster in a thread


what ones do you do or do you know of?

6/12/2010 1:33:13 PM

if we don't have sex my balls is gonna hurt so bad baby

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6/12/2010 1:34:23 PM

I'm very superstitious

the writing is on the wall

6/12/2010 1:35:49 PM

when you belieeeeeeeeeeeve in things that you don't understand

6/12/2010 1:35:56 PM

I will play little games with myself like if a certain activity happens then I will do something.

Like if I'm trying to decide if I should do something I will hit shuffle on my iTunes and I'll say if the 5th song that comes up is a song that I know all the words to then I'll do it.

6/12/2010 1:36:32 PM

she'd also X the windshield when a black cat crossed the path of her car

6/12/2010 1:37:14 PM

only when gambling

dumb huh?

6/12/2010 1:38:12 PM

Boogie on reggaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaae womaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

6/12/2010 1:38:49 PM

I thought they didn't label the 13th floor in buildings.. most of the time they'd call it 14

but the Progress Energy building, in downtown Raleigh, has a 13th floor

6/12/2010 1:40:15 PM

you find that in hotels and shit

rarely anymore

used to be more prevalent, but buildings built in the last like, oh 40 years its very rare

6/12/2010 1:41:16 PM

i'm not superstitious i guess

i just think if you're a horrible person eventually its gonna come back around to you.

but other than a quasi karma esque belief that i have. nope. not superstitious. i will walk under 100 ladders. and i own a black cat!

6/12/2010 1:41:19 PM

QUIT JACKIN' MY POSTIN' PROSE

6/12/2010 1:41:52 PM

When i played baseball I was superstitious, but not now so much. I am a firm believer in Karma though, if that counts.

6/12/2010 1:42:34 PM

It's bad luck to be superstitious.

6/12/2010 1:46:48 PM

oh yeah, i've broken mirrors before, too

still own on actually, (corner just broke off)

6/12/2010 1:52:24 PM

I've stepped on my share of cracks before

my mom's back is just fine

6/12/2010 7:19:10 PM

it won't be once I get finished with her



HEYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

6/12/2010 7:38:26 PM

6/12/2010 7:53:44 PM

i need to do this daily or the ghosts will get me

6/12/2010 7:57:54 PM

I am







very superstitious

6/12/2010 8:55:30 PM

I got kinda creeped out when I moved into my new room today and found this scratched into the window frame

6/12/2010 9:03:06 PM

BMEL CAME TO SURPRISE YOU

6/12/2010 9:03:47 PM

I believe the fuck out of karma. Almost to the point where I fear saying some mean shit about someone because it could come round on me even if the bitch pissed me off!

Karma really kicked my ass a few years back and I'm still rubbing the wound.

6/12/2010 9:04:10 PM

I'm not superstitious; while I do believe in a karma kind of system, it's just plain simple that shit happens and tends to happy to good people more often then not. So I stopped caring and just roll with it.

6/12/2010 9:10:42 PM

i feel like my life is going in the opposite direction

i never did anything bad and tons of shit happened to me

soooo now i get a free pass to be a horrible person, right?

6/12/2010 9:23:09 PM

i wouldn't bet on it

6/14/2010 2:35:19 PM

gotta watch out for that karma!!

just was noting that my x-boss got a terrible case of shingles. darn karma.

6/14/2010 2:40:46 PM

bttt

12/10/2010 2:05:57 PM

[Edited on December 10, 2010 at 2:07 PM. Reason : ^bah]

12/10/2010 2:07:12 PM

haha hey Gus. Thanks y'all.

My left eye has something in it and is itching like crazy. This reminded me of a childhood superstition in my family fostered by my grandmother. When she said "my right eye itches" I had to always say "thank you." I have no idea where that came from, but it was apparently bad luck if I didn't. But you didn't say that if her left eye itched. That was also bad.

I was wondering if anyone else had random ones like that that nobody else has ever heard of.

In looking it up I found a site with this question. WTF. "Did you ever hear the superstion that a woman could tell who her future husband would be by standing at the side of the road, waiting until she counted 10 red cars, then saw a red-haired girl in a purple dress, then a man in a green tie, and THEN the next young man she saw would be her husband?" - Jason Mojica

[Edited on December 10, 2010 at 2:16 PM. Reason : I am full of fail lately]

12/10/2010 2:10:51 PM

Quote :

"When she said "my right eye itches" I had to always say "thank you.""

Quote :

"But you didn't say that if her right eye itched. That was also bad."

wait wat?

12/10/2010 2:15:34 PM

I have no idea what you're talking about.

12/10/2010 2:16:48 PM

Its a vicious cycle really

12/10/2010 2:17:40 PM

you people are nuckin futs

12/10/2010 2:25:30 PM

The Russian girl in my program is full of great ones... One day I was telling her how I saw a lady with NF1 and she was covered with neurofibromas - but when I said she was covered I motioned my hands in an upward/downward way, emphasizing the body thing. She FLIPPED and was like "DON'T DO THAT!!!!!!!!!!!" I was all, "....... do what?!" She said if you use your body as an example or something, it will happen to you

She also said if the clasp on your necklace comes down to the bottom (near the charm), someone is thinking about you.. a bunch of other ones, I just can't remember

12/10/2010 2:42:08 PM

I once stepped over my old roommate's textbooks on the floor and she got mad at me. Apparently that's disrespectful and you never step over anything you revere (which ... school books? that seems a bit much).

12/10/2010 2:45:28 PM

i'm not superstitious at all

12/10/2010 2:45:50 PM

i dunno if its superstitious but my mom always said if your nose itches that means one of two things, you are going to get into a fight or kiss a fool

12/10/2010 3:18:51 PM

When I played baseball, all of the starting infielders had to rub dirt on their right pant leg and the center fielder had to eat 1/2 of a snickers bar.

12/10/2010 3:21:37 PM

the only one i can think of that i follow is to never step on the foul line. but i only coach during the summer and i'm never on the field.

12/10/2010 3:27:17 PM

anyone heard the one where if you open up a pocket knife, you have to be the one to close it

12/10/2010 3:31:09 PM

Yeah, I heard it was bad juju to receive a closed knife and return it to the owner open.

[Edited on December 10, 2010 at 3:33 PM. Reason : -d]

12/10/2010 3:33:29 PM

i was told that you should never give/receive a knife from a loved one...it should always be sold, if only for a penny

[Edited on December 10, 2010 at 3:35 PM. Reason : but nothing about opening/closing it ]

12/10/2010 3:35:21 PM

Well that's just because if your s/o stabs you with the knife when they find out you were cheating on them, if you don't die from the wound you will surely die from the irony.

(assuming that is irony)

[Edited on December 10, 2010 at 3:36 PM. Reason : if the knife is iron is this a pun?]

12/10/2010 3:36:37 PM

but what kind of irony?

12/10/2010 3:37:20 PM

Quote :

"if the knife is iron is this a pun?"

hahaha

12/10/2010 3:37:53 PM

i use the "knock on wood" thing frequently

Fumbler's mom told him that if he pointed at the moon it would bite his ear off during the night.

12/10/2010 3:42:41 PM

my stepfather told me if you show your teeth to a writing spider it will write your name in his its web and then that night it will come in to your room and get you

12/10/2010 4:11:11 PM

Quote :

"she'd always lift her feet from the car floor while driving over railroad tracks, not sure why?"

I have done this for years, and I couldn't give a good explanation as to why. I remember being in the car with my father's parents (whom I was never really close with), and one of them mentioned this practice to me. I guess I was young enough to believe it, and it's stuck ever since.

I also used to hold my breath when passing by a graveyard. Gave that up eventually, but it still crosses my mind when I'm near one. Funny enough, I married a man that grew up across the street from a small graveyard (which he and his brothers used to run around in).

12/10/2010 4:16:49 PM

Kiss ones fingers and touch the headliner in the car crossing a state line.

Cross ones fingers whilst passing a graveyard.

If ones right palm itches, one will lose money to someone...if ones left itches, one will find money.

Don't flash high beams as a warning.

Any routine that one believes leads to luck.

Toss spilled salt over ones left shoulder to ward off bad luck.

Finding a horseshoe is good luck.

Opening an umbrella indoors is bad luck.

Walking under a ladder is bad luck.

Finding a four-leafed clover is good luck.

If the flame of a candle flickers and then turns blue, there's a spirit in the room.

If a bird flies through your house, it indicates important news. If it can't get out, the news will be death.

If you feel a chill up your spine, someone is walking on your future grave.

A person born on Halloween will have the gift of communicating with the dead.

A bat in the house is a sign of death.

If a bird flies towards you, bad fortune is imminent.

Crows are viewed as a bad omen, often foretelling death. If they caw, death is very near.

If a person experiences great horror, their hair turns white.

A hat on a bed will bring bad luck.

Eat an apple on Christmas Eve for good health the next year.

Eat black eyed peas and collard greens on New Years Day for wealth in the new year.

These are all superstitions that I observe or have observed at one point in time or another.

[Edited on December 10, 2010 at 4:28 PM. Reason : ]

12/10/2010 4:18:43 PM