Welcome to Friday Fives, my weekly meme where I take it easy and post a list of five…anythings. Favorite movies, favorite websites of the week, whatever I can think of that adds up to five. In honor of it being Friday the 13th, I’m reprinting a post I wrote way back on January 13, 2006, which was also – you guessed it – a Friday.
Originally titled I’m Not Afraid of Friday the 13th, here’s the reprinted post with my five superstitions in bold:
But I am somewhat superstitious about other things. For as long as I can remember, whenever I spill salt (which is pretty much every time I bake), I toss a pinch over my left shoulder. It’s supposed to keep the devil away or something. I have NO IDEA where I got that from, but I always do it.
I won’t walk under ladders, but that seems more like common sense than superstition. What if the person on the ladder is holding a can of paint and they drop it just as I walk underneath? I’m not even sure what bad thing is supposed to happen if you walk under a ladder.
Thanks to spending most of my middle and high school years participating in school theater productions, I know to never say “good luck” before a performance. It’s ALWAYS “break a leg”. It’s also bad luck to say “Macbeth” before a theater performance!
This isn’t a superstition, but I ALWAYS put my left shoe on first. Always. If I ask someone to hand me my shoes and they give me the right shoe, I wait until they give me the left one and then put it on first. I shudder to think of what would happen if I ever broke my left foot and could only wear a shoe on my right foot. (Knock on wood). I’m pretty sure there would be a rip in the very fabric of my universe.
I always say knock on wood and try to do it when I talk about something bad happening. Cripes, I’m more superstitious than I thought!
I hope today is uneventful for everybody. Try not to spill any salt, okay?
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What are you superstitious about? Tell me in a comment!
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