SILLY SAYINGS

 

 

It’s fun to look back and laugh occasionally at the naiveté of a child.  Perhaps you can identify some of the things you believed as well, even some of the same things I thought were true.

 

Did you know that if you park a car in the sun and the sunshine is reflected off a wall inside the house a fire could start?

 

Surely since a nickel is heavier it must be worth more than a dime.

 

If you swallow a water melon seed it will grow inside your stomach. That one must be right up there with the baby being found in the cabbage patch. Silly people, don’t they know storks bring babies.

 

If you eat enough carrots you can see better. That may be true, but when I woke up one morning after eating twenty-one carrot strips for supper and couldn’t see one bit better I surely was disappointed.

 

IF it rains while the sun shines the devil is beating his wife, or, it’s going to rain again tomorrow.

 

If a dog eats a slice of white bread it will go mad. That must be true because my last dog ate a slice and got mad when I grabbed the rest of the loaf and he couldn’t get another slice. LOL, that was too cheesy.

 

If it gets printed in the newspaper it definitely is true. That surely might drive someone crazy if they believe it today.

 

I was totally convinced by my grandma that chicken hawks lived in the deep well out back.

 

She also convinced me that rubbing a wart with a potato and burying the potato in the back yard would take the wart off.

 

Mustard plasters?  Don’t laugh; check out YouTube. Most people call them folk lore or a poultice made with ground mustard. I call them hot and painful, not to mention the smell because I remember people using mustard right out of the jar.

 

If your ears ring more than 10 seconds someone is going to die. That one scared me so badly that every time my ears started to ring I ran to the water fountain and took large swallows of water to be sure they stopped before the 10 seconds passed.

 

It’s a world-wide superstition that if you split a post with someone while walking you’ll have bad luck. Of course I do not believe that … even though I did teach my last guide dog, Mego to always walk behind a person instead of causing me and that person to split that post. Have I taught that to Vivi? No, I just throw some pretend salt over my left shoulder?

 

This is how I believe superstitions work:  If you believe a bad luck saying like that is true, you wait for something bad to happen and then you honestly think whatever saying you believed in caused that thing to happen … even if it’s years later.   

 

Red headed people have bad tempers. Really? There must be red roots somewhere underneath my blonde hair.

 

My mother-in-law once gave me the most beautiful African violet ever. I loved it. “OH thank you so much!” I said. She answered:  “Oh no, you aren’t supposed to thank anyone when they give you a flower; now it will die.” It did … after two years.

 

Radios once had large tubes in them and often the backs of radios had something like heavy duty cardboard on the back with holes in it. How many of us picked up the set, put our eyes on the holes in back and pretended we saw people in there?

 

If you put a chicken’s head under its wing and rock it in your arms it will go to sleep. Unless chickens have changed since I was ten years old, it’s true; at least it worked for me; honest.

 

Okay, enough you say? I agree, especially since I don’t believe in luck, but believe my life is governed by God’s plan and no rabbit’s foot or ear ringing or post splitting has a thing to do with it. Still, it’s funny to look at how a human mind can work sometimes even when we’re grown. This is why I never copy, paste, share chain promises or even share testimony chains on social media, but only put this out there hoping somebody might really laugh today.