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Chris @feddit.uk

5mo ago

Friday the 13th

Source: https://mastodon.social/@warandpeas/113129917685425890

29 comments

Breaking mirrors, in this economy??
- That's the origin of the superstition, don't cha know?
- Walking under ladders just made her life and health insurance go up.

Until I zoomed in it looked like the 23th.
- Hehe.
  
  Hehe.
- Yeah I thought that was somehow supposed to be the punchline
  
  Is there a punchline?

is there a superstition about walking under ladders?
- To be fair, it's one of the more reasonable superstitions considering the potential of being hit by a heavy falling object.
  
  People won't listen to "if you walk under a ladder you might get hit by a paint bucket" but they will listen to "if you walk under a ladder some nondescript aethereal force will give you bad luck". What is wrong with our brains.
- absolutely, yeah. there's still a lot of construction folks/builders that refuse to do it. usually the same folks that have superstitions about tools (like never hand someone an unfolded pocket knife, no matter how safely you do it)
  
  There's a really weird thing in the Southeastern US where people will hand you pocketknives with the blade out always and you can't hand it back closed. I don't understand it.
  
  like never hand someone an unfolded pocket knife, no matter how safely you do it
  Yeah! Without a proper backspin toss, it's not going to land in their palm correctly, or in time for their next throw.
- One of the most known.
  
  maybe where you're from :p
- Yes.

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