Are you superstitious or close to someone who is?

[GP44]

A car dealer that we bought a car from sent us a letter asking if we wanted to extend the warranty.
I told my wife to call them back and tell them that this car is the best car we have ever had and haven’t needed anything fixed so we don’t need a warranty.
She kept saying “shut up you are going to make something bad happen.”
I said that’s only if you have bad mojo.
She said “ we have plenty of that around here.”
She is the kind who goes around knocking on wood when somebody says something is going good.
The thing is she really believes all of this bad mojo, as I call it stuff.
Just in case you are wondering she is from right here in Illinois and not New Orleans.

 

[RadishRose]

NOT ME

 

[hollydolly]

Yep I am... it's a learned behaviour from my mother who was SUPER superstituous

I've tried telling myself that some of the superstitions are nonsense... .. but it's ingrained...

 

[MACKTEXAS]

No, I'm not superstitious, and I don't have an extended warranty on my auto or home, and never pay for one when buying appliances. Many or most of those warranties require using certain contractors or facilities I've never heard of, and have fine print exclusions. I just take my chances and pay for repairs when needed. If my car reaches a point where a repair would be too expensive to justify, I'll just buy a new one.

 

[Nathan]

No, but then I don't particularly believe in coincidences so....

 

[Sunkist]

No.

 

[CallMeKate]

She is the kind who goes around knocking on wood when somebody says something is going good.
The thing is she really believes all of this bad mojo, as I call it stuff.

So? Does that bother you? Her beliefs and superstitions are part of who she is and that should be respected.

 

[IrishEyes]

The only thing I catch myself doing is beginning to say something that is going well and stopping
myself from saying it, in case I jinx myself, I do that often

 

[KSav]

I'm generally not superstitious, but my mother was: no shoes on the bed, don't open an umbrella in the house, etc.

I am just a little superstitious, though. Like @IrishEyes, I will often catch myself from saying that something is going well for fear of jinxing things. I also get paranoid about promising someone I will have a file to them by a particular time. I always want to qualify that by saying something along the lines of "Barring some catastrophic accident, I will have this to you by 4:00 pm."

 

[IKE]

I'm not really superstitious but that doesn't mean that I go out of my way looking for ladders to walk under, open umbrellas indoors, intentionally spill salt and break mirrors or hope that a black cat will cross my path while out and about either.

 

[Pepper]

Sometimes about somethings

 

[Aunt Bea]

No, not really but it is interesting that if you look for certain signs you will find them.

I suppose that does tend to make some people superstitious.

The same sort of thing happens when you get rid of something and then a day or two later you need it and wish that you had hung on to it.

 

[Nathan]

I'm generally not superstitious, but my mother was: no shoes on the bed, don't open an umbrella in the house, etc.

I see shoes on the bed as being an unsanitary thing, and opening an umbrella in the house as being a knocking things over hazard.

 

[Jules]

I'm not really superstitious but that doesn't mean that I go out of my way looking for ladders to walk under, open umbrellas indoors, intentionally spill salt and break mirrors or hope that a black cat will cross my path while out and about either.

Those are the ones I can’t shake. Knock on wood.

 

[MountainRa]

I do the knock on wood thing. May not help but what does it hurt to do a quick knock on wood.

 

[jujube]

Both of my grandmas were. There ARE certain things I just WON'T do. I will NOT put a hat on the bed. I won't open umbrellas in the house (luckily, I don't consider the garage to be part of the house so I do have a place to put wet umbrellas to dry out).

So I guess I am a little superstitious.

 

[oldman]

No, I am not superstitious, but I never flew on Friday the 13th. Why take a chance?

 

[GP44]

I'm not really superstitious but that doesn't mean that I go out of my way looking for ladders to walk under, open umbrellas indoors, intentionally spill salt and break mirrors or hope that a black cat will cross my path while out and about either.

We spent a winter in a RV park near Houston and they had a fishing pond where you could catch fish on chunks of hotdogs.
This little black cat started coming around and mooching pieces of hotdogs.
Then he followed me back to the trailer and Mary liked the cat so much that she bought a feather toy to play with it.
We got to where we loved that little cat and a day before we were getting ready to leave the park that cat disappeared.
We really didn’t want a cat for a pet because one of our sons is allergic to them so it was just as well that we didn’t find the little black cat.
I don’t know if we crossed its path or it crossed ours. I don’t think we are afraid of black cats.

 

[timoc]

Not a bit, well maybe just a teeny weeny bit.

I have a rabbits foot and I live in fear that a monster 3 footed rabbit will come and beat me up to get his foot back.

 

[KSav]

I see shoes on the bed as being an unsanitary thing, and opening an umbrella in the house as being a knocking things over hazard.

Ew, I feel the same about shoes on the bed. Never. I also agree that opening an umbrella would be a hazard with respect to knocking things over. But for my mother, these beliefs were based in superstition, not practicality. I just now realized that I never asked her what the basis for those two particular superstitions were.

 

[IrishEyes]

Ew, I feel the same about shoes on the bed. Never. I also agree that opening an umbrella would be a hazard with respect to knocking things over. But for my mother, these beliefs were based in superstition, not practicality. I just now realized that I never asked her what the basis for those two particular superstitions were.

I opened an umbrella once before leaving the house to shield my kids from the rain in their face. Had to close it to get out the door with
kids in tow, diaper bag on arm and baby in the other. It can be complicated

 

[JustDave]

A car dealer that we bought a car from sent us a letter asking if we wanted to extend the warranty.
I told my wife to call them back and tell them that this car is the best car we have ever had and haven’t needed anything fixed so we don’t need a warranty.
She kept saying “shut up you are going to make something bad happen.”
I said that’s only if you have bad mojo.

Ahh! The jinx curse. Everyone knows about not jinxing good stuff.