I know many of us aren’t superstitious. I believe we make our own luck.
But if you have any weird coincidences, spooky tales or unexplained mysteries, feel free to share. I’m sure @OldAmericanLady and @Welmaris have a few stories up their sleeves. 🙂
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Happy Friday the 13th!
I’m thinking if I should buy lottery because there’s a few bird poops on my car today. 😂
But I hope it’s a good day because my girlfriends are taking me out for dinner. 😋
Happy Friday the 13th!
I’m thinking whether I should buy lottery because there’s a few bird poops on my car today. 😂
Bird poop is lucky? What’s that all about, @agdr03.
The website is acting up, @agdr03. I don’t know why you’re getting blocked.
@agdr03, the website is encountering some glitches. I don’t know why it’s blocking not only you from commenting but also me from opening new thread. Sigh. I hope wordpress is just upgrading and will fix itself soon.
LOL @pkml3… the reason WordPress is acting up is BECAUSE it’s Friday the 13th LOLOL.
It’s a terribly hot and humid Friday for me. I’m feeling sluggish. I refuse to put on my a/c, as I’m working from home everyday and can’t be using endless hours of a/c.
As for bird poop. I’ve heard that some people consider it ‘lucky’ since of all cars, one’s car got hit. As for me, my car gets hit too often!!! If I park under a tree and even when I’m at home in the open-sided car port, … birds still fly through and never fail to miss my car. If I could treat that as an indication of luck, I should have been gambling like crazy and making big bucks!
The other variation of this is when cars meet with minor accidents (I’m not sure if major ones count) … over here people like to stop to take down the license plate numbers of the vehicles (thus causing slow traffic!!!) and buy the lottery based on combinations of those numbers! Heheheheh! Some people swear by it and actually were ‘lucky’ in the lottery.
Heh! BOD blog site is back to it’s usual speed, however the early comments failed to elicit the usual ‘Subscribe’ email. Let’s see if I can get it to work for me with this comment.
Yeah… Friday the 13th indeed (wooo hoooo wooo…)
In this part of the U.K. (maybe anywhere here?) being pooped on personally by a bird is considered good luck. I think it’s based on the odds of it happening being very low.
I generally have a very pleasant day on Friday the 13th. Neither extremely lucky nor unlucky.
Mine posted straight away and I’ve had a subscribe email so the glitch may be subsiding. 🤞
Hi @Fern! Yes the glitch is gone. All the emails to subscribe to threads have dutifully arrived. 🙂
My sis-in-law once had a bird poop on her head! She came home immediately to wash her hair before going off to work. It seems that one can get bald spots where the bird poop hit us! I don’t think she thought herself lucky LOL.
@Packmule3, what I’ve got up my sleeve at the moment is a sore injection site from COVID booster #2. As it’s witching hour (thereabouts) here in Pacific time, let me sleep on it and see if I dream up a good story to share.
It’s supposed to be “bad luck day”. For now I survived, but the day isn’t over.
Oh dear @WE, I don’t know how serious you are about the day being a ‘bad luck day’, but your comment made me laugh so hard. Please stay alive and survive for many Fridays dated 13! You have 10 more hours of the day to go! 🤪 🤣 😇
I was just notified that the site is slow. Duh….we’ve know this since last night. It might load for some users but not for everyone.
Let’s see when the provider will fix this.
Lol.
This is truly Friday the 13th. After I posted the 13th comment on this thread (see above), I was told that the site is back online.
Happy Friday the 13th!!
I didnt event realized it was the 13th. Well I was born on a Friday the 13th so i dont mind the number combo.
I have gotten pooped on by birds twice!!! Both times I was told it was lucky. At least one of those times I was at the beach in Chile. Dont remember where it was the other. Not the US I think.
Hi BODers, Actually my car always seems to get pooped on by birds. We are blessed to uave a .ot of bird life and, in my neighborhood of New York City I ha e two neighbors who raise chickens. NyC Municipal law allows each household to have as many as six chickens. Roosters are prohibited because they are aggressive and are noise polluters. Unlucky for one of our neighbors he lost a hen when a hawk flew by looking for some dinner. Unlucky for me, the hawk chose to dine in my back yard. The carnage was not pretty.
Getting back to Friday the thirteenth, when I was a child, I went t9 the library after school every Friday. My friends and I loved the .ibrary where we imagined ourselves traveling the world and having adventures. One Friday I had these scary premonitions that something bad would happen. My father showed up at the library and I knew something was wrong because he wouldn’t be home from work that early. He rushed me out and we walked home. When I got home all the mirrors were covered. My grandmother who raised me had died earlier in the day. We cover mirrors during t h e first mourning period, Shiva, 5to prevent thoughts of vanity and to think about our deceased love one. I only had that feeling one other time, the day my father passed away.
On a happier note, I told you my experience with the bidet in Spain. The night before when I went out with the hair dressers from Bordeaux, we were coming from our outing having been picked up by some young Spanish men. One of them was trying to molest me and had me in a head lock.(Young foreign women were considered fast and fair game).it was about 2 or 3 AM and While struggling, I thought I was a goner. Up ahead on the street I saw a young man who looked familiar.who would I know in Madrid. Lucky for me it turned out to be my college friend’s boyfriend(now husband) and I yelled out his name. The masher released my head and I ran to my friend’s boyfriend. I was saved. In the end we saved each other. We agreed to meet in Paris in a few days. He ended up being broke and I had money. That meeting was a lucky coincidence. We did meet in Paris, walked around the Seine and te Tuleries. A win win for both of us.
I never had a problem on Friday, the thirteenth. Maybe it’s because the number 13 is lucky in the Jewish religion. Boys reach their bar mitzvah(at 13), thirteen attributes of God, thirteen attributes of faith according to Maimonedes, the number of children Jacob had and much more. Happy Friday the thirteenth.
@Packmule3, after much pondering, I got nuthin’! I’ve had my moments of fear, but can’t think of any I attribute to paranormal activity.
I did some research on Friday the 13th and learned a few things from the timeanddate.com site. Every month that starts with the 1st landing on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th. Usually each year has 1-3 months with a Friday the 13th. The longest span of time possible without a Friday the 13th is 14 months.
Here’s my contribution to this day from a poetry book that I often read as a child: Favorite Poems Old and New, by Helen Ferris. My favorite chapter is “Almost any time is laughing time.” For those who consider Friday the 13th to be filled with bad luck, here are a couple poems in which Murphy’s Law prevails.
Eletelephony
Laura E. Richards
[About a corded phone]
Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant–
No! No! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone–
(Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I’ve got it right.)
Howe’er it was, he got his trunk
Entangled in the telephunk;
The more he tried to get it free,
The louder buzzed the telephee–
(I fear I’d better drop the song
Of elephop and telephong!)
Song of the Pop-Bottlers
Morris Bishop
[Pop is a word for carbonated drinks, or Father]
Pop bottles pop-bottles
In pop shops;
The pop-bottles Pop bottles
Poor Pop drops.
When Pop drops pop-bottles,
Pop-bottles plop!
Pop-bottle-tops topple!
Pop mops slop!
Stop! Pop’ll drop bottle!
Stop, Pop, stop!
When Pop bottles pop-bottles,
Pop-bottles pop!
For those who connect Friday the 13th with the franchise of slasher films, here’s some gruesome verse. Little Willie poems were first published in 1898 by Harry Graham in the book Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes. They became a popular genre, with many other people contributing verses over the years. Here are three.
LITTLE WILLIE
Willie saw some dynamite,
Couldn’t understand it quite;
Curiosity seldom pays:
It rained Willie seven days.
CARELESS WILLIE
Willie, with a thirst for gore,
Nailed his sister to the door.
Mother said, with humor quaint:
“Now, Willie dear, don’t scratch the paint.”
SISTER NELL
In the family drinking well
Willie pushed his sister Nell.
She’s there yet, because it kilt her–
Now we have to buy a filter.
End of day here. Perfectly normal day, no Friday the 13th vibs. And !! the trees finally leafed out !! Spring has been incredibly late this year.
My comment didn’t go through last time.
I remember when youngest son was in primary and he got pooped on his head, but he was wearing his school hat, lucky. Anyway I bought him $5 scratchies to see if it was really lucky. He won $50. LOL.
But since then no one’s ever had bird poop on any of us. heheheh
@Packmule3, please check your email.
@packmule3 I had problems and couldn’t send out comments. My comments never even made it-I just got a never ending loop. They were very tame-no controversies for me. Just happy comments about my Liberation Notes and our Blues…
YAY! I’M BACK!!!
Welcome back from the void of loopey-de-loops @OAL! LOL. Yes the site seems to be acting up from time to time. As usual, I hope all goes well for our Saturday rewatch party.
Hi Ladies! 🙂
Just popping by to say hi. Where we are we are finally facing COVID and going through what most people around the world faced one or two years ago.
We’ve been doing hybrid teaching/learning and it’s been tough.
I’m thankful for this group and for the community here!
Blessings,
Hatlady in Taiwan
@Hatlady, I hope that Taiwan gets through it as quickly as possible. I work for a school and everything was affected,even now with almost all restrictions lifted. The after-effects on the pupils is the most distressing element because not all pupils can cope with the online teaching. It’s hard for the school to teach everyone in a way so that gaps aren’t made even bigger.
Please stay safe and healthy.
Hello @Hatlady, glad to know you’re alright.
All the best as you go through the throes of the Covid infection ups and downs, and grapple with online teaching/learning together with the face-to-face classes. It can be tough for teachers, the students and the parents, however in some circumstances, the online sessions actually benefited the more ‘challenging’ kids.
My own son got Covid last week, is in isolation now, but quite recovered, and will be home soon. Fortunately, the rest of us who were under one roof with him, are well. So many plans… we can’t afford to be ill!
Take care and I’ll keep you and Taiwan in prayer.
@GrowingBeautifully, I hope that your son is completely well and that you and the rest of the family stay healthy. 🙏
Thank you for your kind thoughts @Fern. My son will be home tomorrow, I believe. I also really want all of us to stay healthy for the foreseeable future, since I’ve so much to do in June and my daughter will be traveling twice! 😅 😬 🙄
However more importantly, we do have senior folks with us, so us younger ones need to get out of the house isolate ourselves from them. Of course it will just be best that no one gets ill, but who’s to say what will happen. 🤪
@Growing Beautifully(GB), I am hoping that your son has a full recovery and that your family is spared further infection. The chaos caused by this pandemic are mind blowing. I hope that you derive some comfort in the fact that we know more about the virus and it’s variants and have more ways to cope. As an oldie, I can say that masking and certain behavioral changes help(I don’t eat at indoor restaurants and do a lot on zoom and the internet-keeps me from feeling isolated).we also have more treatments. Sending healing thoughts…
Thank you so much @OAL. Your healing thoughts have uplifted me. I’m glad to say that we expect my son to be home tomorrow, quite recovered. He has actually been enjoying a hotel stay, so to speak, but of course stuck in a room the whole time.
Most of my meetings are also online, although now that we have opened up considerably, we are also able to go out. Yes we are very happy to keep masks on. Although masks are not mandatory outdoors, we are more than 90% still masked everywhere we go. They have helped tremendously in keeping the infection under control.
I trust that you too will remain well and happily connected through the Internet. It’s been a great saver of sanity! LOL.
Thanks once again for your care and concern. Hugs! 🤗 😘 😄
@GB, So glad that your son is being sprung. I think that in Taiwan there is more cooperation wearing masks and social distancing. I have no idea why so many Americans refuse to wear them.. I am more than happy to wear my mask. It can be a fun thing as I have avoided people who I don’t like by being “incognito”.LOL.
@GB I’m sorry to hear your son got sick, but glad to hear he has recovered and is headed home. I hope his isolation kept the virus from spreading to others in the family, especially the elders. I imagine this has been nerve-wracking for you.
Thanks for your note @Welmaris. Son is home and the senior folks have not manifested any symptoms in the last week. Fingers crossed and all that!!!
Silly son … first thing he did when he got home was almost re-twist his ankle (old wound). *Double eye roll* So he’s home and hobbling. 😣 🙄
Oh dear, far from a happy day… my heart goes out to all the children and adults who were shot, in the Texas elementary school, and their families too. May they rest in peace and be comforted. So sad. 🙏 I can only pray for them.
@GB, Amen!