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Friday the 13th

tsg said:
You could try some of these.
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Jeez!! What an utterly exhausting list. If I tried to not do all of those things, I would never find the time to read my daily horoscope, visit my psychic, and chant voodoo love spells over my Greek evil eye amulet.
 
Ladders

On Friday the 13th a few years ago, I went uptown on my lunch hour. A ladder propped against the side of a building blocked my path, and I felt obliged to walk under it to show my freedom from superstition. I was unaware that a local TV station had positioned a camera across the street for a Friday 13th news segment. Just as I came out from under the ladder, someone atop the building swept dust and debris off on me, and I had to go home to bathe. However, I was proud when I saw myself on the late news.

There are times when safety comes before skepticism, and I walk warily around ladders now.
 
Outhere said:
On Friday the 13th a few years ago, I went uptown on my lunch hour. A ladder propped against the side of a building blocked my path, and I felt obliged to walk under it to show my freedom from superstition. I was unaware that a local TV station had positioned a camera across the street for a Friday 13th news segment. Just as I came out from under the ladder, someone atop the building swept dust and debris off on me, and I had to go home to bathe. However, I was proud when I saw myself on the late news.

There are times when safety comes before skepticism, and I walk warily around ladders now.
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This is one of the few woo things that actually came out of sane advice: Don't walk under ladders, not because it's bad luck, but because the guy on it might drop something.
 
tsg said:
This is one of the few woo things that actually came out of sane advice: Don't walk under ladders, not because it's bad luck, but because the guy on it might drop something.
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LOL. Yes. Like it's bad luck to stand in the middle of the street.

But I hope everyone had a safe Fri-XIII. I was perfectly safe in spite of my deliberate and repeated violation of the rules of luck. I actually had a bit of good luck in finding a shop-vac at a garage sale for $5 that I had braced myself to pay $40+ at the hardware store.

Anybody else have a particularly lucky or unlucky day?
 
In Greece we have a superstition I like a lot: It is bad luck when you see a priest out of a church.

On second thought, I don't think this is a superstition after all.
 
The fact that nothing bad happened to me on Friday is PROOF that there's a massive coverup by the government and the Rand Corporation to hide the truth about bad things happening on Friday the 13th. The complete lack of evidence is all I need to know that it's true.
 
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