I'll Just Keep Holding My Four-Leaf Clover
Thanks, Bellur, for blogrolling me at your site Rambling With Bellur. I also enjoyed your post about superstitions. I grew up in India, where superstitions play a big part in the everyday lives of people of all religious faiths. As a former sports journalist, I always marvelled at how world-class sportsmen and women readily confessed to their own little idiosyncracies. Steve Waugh had his lucky red towel, while Sunil Gavaskar always wore something new for a Test match, even if it was a new pair of shoe laces! I can honestly say I am not superstitious at all - but there is a segment in my novel `Vegemite Vindaloo' where one of the characters burns red chillies over her son's head to ward off evil. Do you know anyone who is superstitious? Leave a comment and tell me about it ....
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My husband has a superstition that if you 'stack your plates you stack your debts'. This means that there is no stacking of dishes on the dining table.
We've had a chat about it, and we have it figured that it is more a reminder than a superstition, but he still won't let anyone at a table where we are eating stack their plates.
Makes for a real mess at a sushi conveyor-belt restaurant.
Hi Steph,
That's wonderful. Thank you for sharing that nugget.
I'm getting a great mental picture of the sushi joint!
Cheers
David
To talk about superstitions .. many cricketer have.
Like David, from your time of cricketers if I mention about Mohinder Amarnath... he used to get up from the bed from right side.
K Srikanth always stepped right foot first onto the ground.
Some say if a cat crosses your way, you should wait & let some other person go first that way.
There are many. I am not. :)
Hi Cuckoo,
Thanks for sharing those memories with us.
I knew there was something about Krish Srikkanth - gosh, he was a destructive opening batsman!
Keep smiling
David
thanks for the mention, david. glad you liked the post.
isn't it interesting to know that human beings from various cultures think alike so much?
is 'VV' availble in bangalore? eager to lay my hands on it.
regards
rk
Hi rk,
Thanks for droppping by. Yes, it's very interesting that people from different cultures are so alike - it just goes to prove that we need not really be defined by race or creed.
Yes, Vegemite Vindaloo is available in Bangalore. My daughter was there recently and bought the book at Crossword.
Do let me know if you have any trouble finding it.
Cheers
David
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