You see a lot of this. Elevators in high rise buildings whose buttons go from 12 to 14. No 13th floor. I think it's dumb because just calling it 14 doesn't actually make it the 14th floor.

Anyone else think this is silly?

I do. It's incredibly silly. Thirteen is a number, it's not bad luck or anything.

One thing about me...when my car hits 66666 miles, I will laugh my ass off. :D

Superstitions really are dumb.

My dad is the worse.

If he is driving and a black cat crosses the road in front of him, he will take his fingers and make a x or a cross on the steering wheel. We bought that TV Guide game where the remote tells you what channel of questions to turn to, to get a point, and the first number was 666 and he made us throw it away, lol.

Originally posted by jerejerebinks
Superstitions really are dumb.

My dad is the worse.

If he is driving and a black cat crosses the road in front of him, he will take his fingers and make a x or a cross on the steering wheel. We bought that TV Guide game where the remote tells you what channel of questions to turn to, to get a point, and the first number was 666 and he made us throw it away, lol.
I shudder to think what he would do if he met an atheist. Set him on fire? :D

Make it interesting, Borg. That athiest has to be an outspoken, New York City hardcore, butch lesbian, coming to date his daughter.

Originally posted by creetwins
You see a lot of this. Elevators in high rise buildings whose buttons go from 12 to 14. No 13th floor. I think it's dumb because just calling it 14 doesn't actually make it the 14th floor.

Anyone else think this is silly?

Your right it is silly and also senseless. Whatever way you look at it, it is still the 13th floor. They can call it the 14th floor or 12A and 12B(as some building go by that), but the 13th floor is the 13th floor regardless.

Yes, but it's not called the 13th floor. :) it's called the 14th floor, even though you have only went up 13 times...

I hate the number 13. I think all Elevators should do this. :)

Originally posted by BorgHunter
I do. It's incredibly silly. Thirteen is a number, it's not bad luck or anything.

One thing about me...when my car hits 66666 miles, I will laugh my ass off. :D

I always get rid of my cars when they reach 665 kilometers.

Seriously, at my job, the emergency number is 6666. (and it's a christian publisher !)

A suggestion : this thread should have been called "clever supestitions". I am still looking for one.

Originally posted by BorgHunter
I shudder to think what he would do if he met an atheist. Set him on fire? :D

Um....no. He is not a Christian....he probably even flirts with the idea of being agnostic from time to time.

He is a believer....but doubts sometimes.

Originally posted by jerejerebinks
Um....no. He is not a Christian....he probably even flirts with the idea of being agnostic from time to time.

He is a believer....but doubts sometimes.
All this is good. By nearly anyone's standards. Questioning one's faith is healthy and normal. In most cases, it leads to a stronger faith. In rare cases, like mine, it can lead to godless heathen atheism. :D

No 13th FLOOR! PERIOD!

If i notice there's 12replies to a thread i never post the 13th reply *blushes* lol

gotta admit sumtimes i don't notice til afterwards though

my favorite stupid superstition is the whole "sweep someone's feet (with a broom) and they'll go to jail. then, to keep that from happening, you have to SPIT on the broom. that's just plain nasty. you're not going to go to jail because i mistakingly swept over your feet. maybe if you take the broom from me and beat me with it, but otherwise...

Maybe they should build a thirteenth floor but just not use it.

Here's one I hate: walking under a ladder. It's the safest place! people always drop things on either side of the ladder, never directly under it... Unless the ladder itself falls. I guess that would be unlucky. :s

I'm generally not superstitious. That being said, it has not gone unnoticed by me that since I stopped wearing Packer gear on Sunday they're 6-0.

In Indian country there are LOTS of superstitions.....

For example...if you are pregnant, never expect to see a baby shower before the last month, and in lots of cases, until after the baby is born. It's like counting your eggs before they are hatched, you are cursed. Also, in some places, they won't name the baby untiil after it has lived one week, for the same reason, like don't get attached the baby might die...

Also, never expect an Indian to get life insurance, or at least none i know will. It also is like inviting curses or disaster.....

Plus in some places, when an old person dies at home, or any person for that matter, to confuse their spirit, they won't take the body out the same way it came in. They will take the body out through a window, since when they came in they were alive and most likely used the door.

THose are the ones that come to mind, I'll have to post when I remember some others.....

Originally posted by creetwins
Also, in some places, they won't name the baby untiil after it has lived one week, for the same reason, like don't get attached the baby might die...



Interesting. It's the same in Senegal - and probably in many african countries. Newborn babies are not named before their baptism (or the quivalent ceremony according to their belief) in order not to get the attention of bad spirits upon them before they are protected.

another similar one....

when I was pregnant, my ex's uncle passed away. THey had the traditional wake for 3 days and nights, where family would sit with him day and night. I was only allowed to attend during the day. Pregnant women should not attend a wake at night, because the unborn spirit is fragile, and the person who died's spiirit is not yet at rest until the burial.

At the cemetary , the funeral is not over until the body is comopletely buried, and everyone pitches in to help, then they finish it with a backhoe.... closure.


There are alos a lot of superstitions to do with menstruation.....