Superstitions , Have You Got Any?

[Bobbisox1]

Friday 13th tomorrow, I'd best stay in....
Oh hang on :0(

[barry1010]

One magpie gives me the heebie jeebies

[Bobbisox1]

Me too Barry, must see two

[Buenchico]

I'll never be stupid enough to take any notice of superstitions, touch wood ;-)

[jourdain2]

I work on Fri. 13th being regarded as a fortunate day in France, Bobbi. I've always found it mildly fortunate myself (as in getting a lot of stuff done that suddenly unjams). OH's car Reg begins FR13! Fingers crossed - so far, so good. :) I can't say that I'm particularly superstitious - it makes sense not to walk under ladders especially if someone is working at the top of them!

[Baldric]

No, not really, although I do tend to be more careful as I realise other peoples habits can change.

[Bobbisox1]

As far as I'm aware ,it's the magpie thing only with me

[sherrardk]

Magpies, pointing at rainbows, putting new shoes on a table, putting an umbrella up indoors, the married couple not taking the knife out of the weeding cake (obviously most people only do this once) - just off the top of my head.

[woofgang]

no, not really

[Bobbisox1]

Some there I've never heard of Sherr :0(

[ummmm]

No, none.

[tiggerblue10]

I don't have any and I'm always stopping to stroke black cats :o)

[Bobbisox1]

Err why Tiggs haha

[sherrardk]

If you point at a rainbow you’ll break it (yes, I know how it sounds) and if the newly married couple take the knife out of the cake all the good luck with escape - I don’t actually count myself as superstitious.

[-SharonA-]

//I don't have any and I'm always stopping to stroke black cats :o)//
Last time I went to stroke a black cat, it snarled at me!!!!
But I won't walk under ladders.

[Buenchico]

I always greet a single magpie and enquire how his wife is. It's not really a genuine superstition for me (i.e. I don't actually believe in it); it's just a silly little joke that I have with myself. (Similarly, I've always tried to avoid looking at a full moon through glass, although other ABers have since told me that it's meant to be a new moon that I shouldn't be looking at anyway!)

Superstitions clearly bother some people though. I've supervised surveys carried out by the developers of Great Western Park in Didcot. It's a massive development, about the size of a small town, where there will eventually be 3,300 homes. However not a single one of them will be numbered '13'. All of the odd-numbered houses on each street have Number 11 followed by Number 15 and flats are similarly numbered. The developers clearly think that, even in these 'enlightened days', many prospective buyers would shun a house or flat numbered '13'.

[tiggerblue10]

My first instinct when I see a cat is to try and give it a chin rub. I love cats :o)

[retrocop]

Tomorrow I will have,probably, a strange man inserting a foreign object where the sun don't shine. When given my rendevous date over the phone I repeated,'Friday 13th?' ''Well we aren't supersticious here Mr..........." Most reassuring. :-)

[Bobbisox1]

And there's no 13th row on a plane

[jourdain2]

You'll live retrocop. Will be thinking of you - although not in too much detail! :)

[Bobbisox1]

Well not on Jet2 there isn't