I used to light a cigarette in a restaurant to get the waitress to come. Never failed.
Now, I light a cigarette in a restaurant to get the police to come. Also never fails!
Until this thread and the other one I never heard the bread and butter one, but I picked it up from my grandmother and I do it If Im walking holding my son’s hand.
I’m not opposed to shoes on the table for any superstitious reasons, but because eeeeeew, who wants to eat off a table where your shoes have been?
Black cats. Nothing but trouble. We had a huge one that regularly dragged in gigantic rats when our friends visited. It bit everyone and once when my sister tried to catch for a vet visit it attempted to tear her shirt off. Later it bit the vet. We called the beast kitty but I had other ideas about a name (Psycho, and a few things that can’t be printed.) I actually at one point dreamed it was the devil.
I checked quite a few things, but I’m not really all that superstitious. I guess I consider it more like tradition. I knock on wood, occasionally read horoscopes and say ‘‘break a leg’’ to actors. I don’t take it all that seriously, it’s more like just a ritual.
The closest I have to a superstition is a St. Christopher’s Medal. My Aunt, who is agnostic, for some reason got ahold of a St. Christopher’s medal and had kept it in her car. She misplaced it somehow and what followed was a series of car accidents that were so bizarre I can only say it was one hell of a statistical anomaly. From what I recall;
-Drunk driver smashed into her car while it was parked in the front yard
-When she picked the car up from the shop, she backed it into a wooden stump on the way out, thus necessitating more repairs
-She asked me to move her car and about three minutes after I did, a giant tree branch fell and shattered the windsheild.
When she got rid of the car, she gave me the medal, which I keep clipped to the front of my visor despite the fact that I’m atheist.
It makes me feel safe because it reminds me of her.
You need an “I don’t do any of this sillyass shit” option.
Is saying “gesundheit” the same as saying “Bless you”? What if you say it specifically to avoid saying “Bless you”? (and mostly because it’s fun to say!) If saying “gesundheit” counts, what about saying “goodbye” when someone leaves? (I know it’s not an option, but would it be if I’d thought of it for the other thread?)
And do you want us to check things we do as social ritual bit without belief? I assume so, but I want to kno2 before I vote. What if I knock on my head for humor, not belief not social ritual (except inasmuch as bad jokes are themselves a form of social ritual, which in my family, they are!)
The only thing I’ll cop to right now is that you can’t “choose” a fortune cookie; you have to take the last one (or at least the one closest to you), the one “fate” wants you to have. Sorry I didn’t get it in the other thread.
I didn’t mark “knock wood,” because I only do it ironically.
who are all the people not picking up pennies!?
You really need a “none of the above.”