Superstitious Thursday #607

[Karen]

I'll have to ponder that one, none spring to mind immediately .... fun sounding drink!

[pomtzu]

I'm not really superstitious - tho I won't walk under a ladder or pick a coin up off the ground if it is tails up. Can't think of anything else. Friday the 13th doesn't bother me, nor does just the number 13. Some people let their superstitions rule their lives way too much.

[cassiesmom]

My Polish grandma used to tell me that I'd lose all my money because I would put my purse down on the floor when I visited them. I still plop it on the floor, haven't lost everything... yet.

I guess I'm a bit superstitious. I always pick up a "found" coin for good luck, I hope that good luck will come my way if a black cat crosses my path. I wish on stars, I try to eat fish on New Year's Eve (that's from my Ukrainian grandpa- you eat fish, ideally herring, on New Year's Eve to bring success into the coming year).

As a nurse I truly believe that things go differently when there is a full moon. When I worked ortho/rehab we used to give patients more pain meds on full moon nights, and I'm not sure why. If a full moon fell on a "spring forward, fall back" Saturday night, I would let someone else work it. Bad things (code blue events, your favorite DNR patient passes away) happen in groups of three, I can't explain why. And you never ever speak the word "quiet" aloud at work, or the rest of your shift will be anything but.

Barkeep, I'll drink cranberry-apple juice with you. Please hold the vodka and schnapps from mine, though.

[Lady's Human]

What about the gummy spiders in the ice cubes?

[Karen]

The responses so far reminded me, as a kid, I would always pick up any pennies I saw. It wasn't until I was at MassArt that I bent to pick up a penny and a friend shrieked, "No!!!!" so I stopped and looked at her, and said, "What the heck?"
"Only pick up pennies if they are face side up, otherwise it's bad luck, not good!"
As a perpetually broke student, I said, "Pennies are pennies - and it's already in my pocket, so neither side up!"

That was the first I heard of that one, but she is Italian, with a lot of superstitions passed along from her immigrant grandmother!

One my grandmother's cousin told me once made no sense to me whatsoever, at a holiday gathering, I was nibbling nuts from the nut dish that was set out for that purpose. She looked at me quite seriously, and said, "If you keep eating nuts, your nose will turn up!" which I thought would be interesting, not alarming, and pretty darned unlikely!

[pomtzu]

LOL Karen. I'm Italian (or half anyway), and I never heard of the heads/tails up superstition as bring an "Italian thing". I always thought that was a pretty generic quirk that was shared by most everyone.

I also don't buy into 7 years of bad luck if you break a mirror. I've lost count of how may I broke over the years. And the full moon definitely has an effect on people, and that's not just a superstition. In dealing with the public when I was still working, the rude and obnoxious and ignorant individuals were always even worse than normal during a full moon. My ex was a cop, and crime and the like was always up during a full moon, and the loonies were super mega looney. And when I worked in a hospital MANY years ago, the mental ward was somewhere I hoped I would not be called to during this moon phase. Births are always also up.

[Lady's Human]

If breaking a mirror is 7 years bad luck you'd get roughly 49 years of bad luck for a car accident:

3 rear view mirrors

reflectors in the headlights (2, 4 on some cars)

Reflectors in the tail lights (2,4,6, even up to 8 on some)

That 'splains a lot..

[cassiesmom]

What about the gummy spiders in the ice cubes?

Ice cubes - okay; gummy spiders - no, thank you.

[RICHARD]

I'll do an adult beverage, please.

And thanks for opening the bar!!!!

[Lady's Human]

Would that be with or without the gummy spiders?