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I was working on a ladder today and noticed that I have this thing about touching every rung - even if I skip the last one coming down I take my foot and touch it. If I walk under the ladder, I make sure to walk back under it in the other direction to reverse the yin/yang. Am I nuts? (I won't even tell you what I do when I'm watching my favorite football team.......)
-------------------- www.signcreations.net Sonny Franks Lilburn, GA 770-923-9933 Posts: 4115 | From: Lilburn, GA USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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You wuz my friend I thought. Wait a minute? OK, then...
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-------------------- Jack Wills Studio Design Works 1465 E.Hidalgo Circle Nye Beach / Newport, OR Posts: 2914 | From: Rocklin, CA. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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Superstitious? not really yet in some ways I do things that are abnormal, such as making sure all the paper money in my possession is fairly new and feels like money and it needs to be facing one direction in my wallet.
Superstitious? not really, paranoid no, yet I sleep with a 45
Superstitious? not really yet I place my beds in certain positions in the bedrooms and never work in a bedroom
-------------------- HotLines Joey Madden - pinstriping since 1952 'Perfection, its what I look for and what I live for'
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The most superstitious people I've ever been around are race car drivers. I know many drivers who will not have the color green on their car, eat boiled peanuts in the pits or fried chicken on race day..... And I've heard that at all levels of racing.... when racing karts, dirt track stock cars, and also when working on a pit crews and changing tires for a season on a regional Nascar team....
One guy I know travels around to big dirt late model races... I've lettered his car a few times and he is a fanatic about not having ANY shade of green on the car... I've had to do a couple sponsors logos different to eliminate any hint of green from them....
I've never been superstitious, but I did have a funny experience that reinforced it with a few of my friends...
After racing karts for a couple years, I started driving one for a guy that owned a shop that sold chassis and built kart engines. His wife would come to the races occasionally and bring food.... one day she brings a big bucket of fried chicken. Husband dude I was racing for tells her she's crazy and to get it out of the trailer... I say, "Man that's a bunch of crap, I'll eat some...."
I did, and soon after went out to practice the kart... I got up to speed and the kart was flying... at this track we probably did at least 75-80 mph down the straight-aways... I was coming down the front straight-away wide open and went to the outside of this young guy going about half as fast as me.... when the nose of my kart was about even with his bumper, he decides to take a hard right to hit pit road (pit road being off turn 1 on the outside of the track).
I didn't even have time to hit the brakes, I hit the side of his kart and it shot me straight into the wall... I flipped the kart, flew out of it, landed on the track and rolled a few times. The kart flipped at least 3 times. Worst and fastest wreck I've ever had, and I swear to God it was less than 15 minutes after eating the fried chicken. Kart-owner dude was really ticked at his wife and me....
The strange thing is though, while it would sound like that was bad luck, I also had some good luck. First of all, there were hay bales along the wall that made the impact a lot less... I had raced at that track a couple years and it was the first week they had put them up. A driver the week before had hit the wall and cut his arm really badly on the metal guard railing....
Also, neither the kart nor myself was badly hurt. I raced it in heat race, finished third... and won the main event that night. That was the last time we had fried chicken in the pits though....
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-------------------- Jon Jantz Snappysign.com jjantz21@gmail.com http://www.allcw.com Posts: 3395 | From: Atmore, AL | Registered: Nov 2005
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I am pretty sure you have "worked" in a bedroom before!!!!
Well..at your age, maybe you have forgotten the joys??
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That's not work Dave, work is doing books, drafting and stuff like that. My bedroom is strictly for napping or sleep. And Dave, at my age I haven't forgotten anything that important
-------------------- HotLines Joey Madden - pinstriping since 1952 'Perfection, its what I look for and what I live for'
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I get superstitous only when I have more than a grover on the craps table. The rest of the time it is all random stuff, I fig.
-------------------- Preston McCall 112 Rim Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 text: 5056607370 Posts: 1552 | From: Santa Fe, New Mexico | Registered: Nov 1998
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That last step of the ladder as I am coming down? In 21 years of coming down off of them, I have actually learned to look at the last step to be sure it is there. Too many times I just spaced it and fell 8 inches. Even on the little Skippy three stepper. Look before I leap, I guess.
-------------------- Preston McCall 112 Rim Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 text: 5056607370 Posts: 1552 | From: Santa Fe, New Mexico | Registered: Nov 1998
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The funny thing is, I "think" about superstition when I walk under a ladder. But, it doesn't keep me from doing it. I guess it's just something that culture has imprinted onto me.
My mind wanders. And that's not a good thing, 'cause it's too small to be out there alone. Posts: 3129 | From: Tooele, UT | Registered: Mar 2005
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dont thinks so or i would have a problem with my BOY, BATMAN))))))
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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I'm not - but I always carry my grandfather's antique railroad watch when I go riding.
The most superstitious people as a group have to be commercial fishermen. I've heard at least a dozen specific taboos and rituals around fishing boats - like no whistling on board, no pigs (or pork - I heard of a deckhand fired on the spot for having a ham sandwich). The name of a boat must never change; whatever it was christened with stays with it.
Only one "coincidence" ever really made my hair stand on end. In 1977 at age twenty I took a bicycle trip from Pennsylvania to Cape Cod, and on the way I visited Block Island, arriving there on July 7, 1977 (7/7/77). I met a couple of people who put me up, and one guy in particular named Bill became a good friend. Over the years, however, we lost touch.
Fast forward to 2007. I was having breakfast in a little waterfront cafe in Jerusalem, Rhode Island, on July 7, 2007 (07/07/07). I had finished eating and was reading the paper when I heard a familiar voice - it was Bill, sitting at another table with some other people. Bill lives in South Carolina, and the chances of running into him, of all people, exactly thirty years after we first met, is infestisimal. From 7/7/77 to 07/07/07 - a numerologist would have a field day with that.
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Cam Bortz Finest Kind Signs Pondside Iron works 256 S. Broad St. Pawcatuck, Ct. 06379 "Award winning Signs since 1988" Posts: 3051 | From: Pawcatuck,Connecticut USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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and Ray, I've been having a bear problem around my home for several weeks and only down the road a bear came in a families window while they were sleeping and that's why I pack in bed.
-------------------- HotLines Joey Madden - pinstriping since 1952 'Perfection, its what I look for and what I live for'
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So Bill, I guess stepping over the cracks in the sidewalk falls into the same category? And what about my lucky underwear? It's probably a good thing I can't afford a psychiatrist........
-------------------- www.signcreations.net Sonny Franks Lilburn, GA 770-923-9933 Posts: 4115 | From: Lilburn, GA USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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I always put my right bowling shoe on first.
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"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6451 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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I find threat chain emails creepy, no matter how joyful they're written. If you don't send this to 8 people, ________ will happen. When I get wind of what it is, I delete it before I glimpse at the creepy tag line.
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I don't believe in superstitions. As a matter of fact I kind of dislike them. It's As if we're giving some sort of supernatural "power" to these things over us. Whenever I get the chance to break a mirror (like if it's chipped and someone's throwing it away, I'll break it just to prove to whoever is around that mirrors have no power to give anyone 7 years bad luck. Similar with other superstitions, black cats etc. I'll defy them on purpose, even if no-one's looking, just because. A funny superstition people used to do when I was a kid growing up is...Not cutting the pole. If a group of us were walking down the street and we all walked on one side of a telephone pole and someone else walked on the other side, everyone would start pounding him until he walked back around it the way everyone else did..silly.
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