Are you superstitious?

Thought for the day... With Halloween looming in the not so distant future, I found myself thinking today: How superstitious am I? How superstitious are you?



I don't consider myself more superstitious than the average person. I have been known to pick up a penny, tail side down. I step on cracks, and my mother's back is still good. I don't hold my breath when driving past cemeteries (if it's a cemetery that takes a long while to pass, holding your breath that long while driving stands you a good chance of occupying the next plot).

But then again, I also don't flirt cavalierly with bad karma on purpose. I don't walk underneath ladders (especially since it's safer to walk around them anyway). While I don't buy into the whole Bloody Mary legend, the summoning chant would be the last thing I'd even think of doing in a bathroom. And I wouldn't intentionally invoke the Sweater Curse.

But here's a thought... just one of the many flitting in and out of the transom of my caffeinated mind... could the Sweater Curse be avoided if you and a friend each knit a sweater for each other's significant other? How's that for a loophole? What if it worked? All you'd need is to make a deal with a knitter pal with a significant other also in need of some knitwear, and you'd be sorted!

Before I go patting myself on the back, what do you all think? Assuming that the Sweater Curse is real, of course.