Dysfunctional Superstitions and Idiosyncrasies

In this engaging episode of the Dysfunction Junkies podcast, hosts Chrisy and Kerry embark on a journey through the intricacies of family dysfunction and the ways in which the quirks of our parents live on in us. From superstitions to childhood sayings, they unpack the sometimes humorous, often poignant patterns that shape our behaviors and beliefs. The central theme is the recognition of how much of our upbringing influences our adult lives, and the myriad ways these manifest in our daily routines, often unexpectedly.

Chapters

• 0:07 Generational Dysfunctional Patterns in Podcast
• 8:32 Superstitions and Family Traditions
• 18:44 Superstitions and Family Quirks
• 26:28 Family Superstitions and Traditions

Transcript

DJ Nick: 0:07

Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast, where we may not have seen it all, but we've seen enough. And now here are your hosts, chrissy and Keri.

Kerry: 0:19

Hello, junkies, welcome back. I'm Kerry

Chirsy: 0:23

and I'm Chrisy.

Kerry: 0:24

Ah, Chrisy, we had a pretty interesting episode last week. We were diving down the rabbit hole of our aging parents. How are you feeling? That's a long pause. Yeah, I'm trying to think how I'm feeling about that, you know it feels good to talk about it. Yes.

Chirsy: 0:43

And I think it is good to talk about it, especially somebody who totally think it is good to talk about, especially somebody who totally gets it. Yes, but it also is a little draining.

Kerry: 0:50

It's very draining we need to pick me up on this topic, because, really, where does all of?

Chirsy: 0:55

our dysfunction stem from, and we're not trying to point fingers. No judgment no blame, no no. But it kind of does start with the mom and dad a little bit yeah. And then their mom and dad.

Kerry: 1:07

It's an endless cycle. It is, it is, it is and that's what worries me is like OK, that means I'm the cycle that's next. So am I becoming like my parents?

Chirsy: 1:17

You got to really fight, not to, I know.

Kerry: 1:19

But there I mean come on.

Chirsy: 1:21

We can't be liars to ourselves and say that sometimes we don't catch that. Oh my God, it's sort of like what my mom and my dad would do. Why am I being this way, exactly, but I guess recognizing it is the first step that's true To bettering it, that's true.

Kerry: 1:37

I hope. Yeah, that's very true. That's very true. What were some of the sayings that your mom or dad would say that like you might catch yourself saying now, or that you were like, oh, I'm never going to use that one as an adult?

Chirsy: 1:47

Well, there's quite a few things my father used to say, but I can't.

Kerry: 1:52

Now my mom used to always say it's going to get worse before it gets better. Oh yeah, and.

Chirsy: 1:58

I that one.

Kerry: 1:59

Well, I told you my whole philosophy was just going to get right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, worse and worse and worse.

Chirsy: 2:05

But yeah, my mom, no quiet. She made me do crazy things, but not really any sayings. Now, my husband's mom, a lovely lady, he always reminds me of things that she used to say and was Well, one was you need to be the better person. So when you're like, well, you know somebody's doing this to me, so I'm going to do this, and my husband will always come at me and go, chrissy, you got to be the better person. And I'm like wait a minute, do you remember who you married Nick? Well, yeah, there's one and two who the hell told this lie. And again, I think it's somebody who probably was not the person getting screwed over. True, it was somebody saying I'm doing this horrible thing to you.

Kerry: 2:50

You're going to be, the better person.

Chirsy: 2:51

Right Be the better person who's judging this? Yeah, really. And the other one that my husband told me recently that I freaked out about because I'm like another stupid rule. Where did this come from? Two wrongs don't make a right. First of all, this encompasses two things. I hate math and bullshit. Two wrong who says two wrongs don't make a right? Maybe if I take two wrong turns, I might still get right where I need to be. Well, this, this is true, that woman on the GPS that's always annoying the hell out of me.

Kerry: 3:28

We call her MapLissa.

Chirsy: 3:30

Oh my God, one time I was in a car test drive in a car with a guy and the sales guy was in the back and that thing was on and I said this is so horrible and I'm going to offend women. I don't know I might offend men, I'm going to offend everybody right now. But I told him. I said I can see why you guys block us women out. I said because listening to this woman give me directions is annoying the hell out of me. I'm like, can you change up the voice? Maybe you know to an accent or maybe a little kid could give me directions. I would love a little kid to tell me where to go. Go down this road for two more miles, Are you sure? Two more miles? How many Tonka trunks is it before I get to my destination?

Kerry: 4:17

That's like the Alexas how you can change the voices on those. We have a couple Alexas around our house and in our barn and stuff. One of them is like an Australian accent guy and I love it. It's the same thing you're saying, but then we have some of them that are the woman's voice.

Chirsy: 4:32

Well, it could be a woman or but I mean, she's very authoritarian. I mean, and what's funny is the Alexa we have in our house. Yeah, it likes everybody but me. Oh, that's my husband.

Kerry: 4:43

He doesn't listen to him. It will not.

Chirsy: 4:45

I'll tell it. Set a timer, you know, play this song, crickets, dead silence, and then my daughter or my husband will talk to her right away. Yeah, okay, setting a timer.

Kerry: 4:59

Mine will say good morning Carrie. In the male, sexy voice and then it won't talk to my husband. He'll be like good morning Carrie, in the male sexy voice, and then it won't talk to my husband. He'll be like good morning Carrie.

Chirsy: 5:09

Like it's so annoying because the Alexis said good morning. Well, mine says good morning when I tell it, or good afternoon or good evening whenever I'm asking it to do something. If it does listen to my command, it doesn't acknowledge me at all.

Kerry: 5:21

It always says my daughter's name.

Chirsy: 5:24

Oh, it says her name. Oh, it says her name. Oh, that's so funny, and I just get this. I scrunch my face up and snark a little to myself but I'm just like, look, just do what I want. I don't care what you want to call me today Just do it? Put the timer on please, so I know what time to take this stupid dinner out.

Kerry: 5:44

Oh my, you know, time to take this stupid dinner out. Oh my, you know one of the things, uh, growing up we had, there was a girl you might know. Were you ever a girl scout? As soon as I said that, I wanted to suck the question back in wow, you really went there and you asked me about a Girl Scout. I regretted it as soon as it was coming up. I thought maybe your mom made you or something Well come on Mom.

Chirsy: 6:12

Mom would have told me to do it.

Kerry: 6:14

Does it require her to?

Chirsy: 6:15

be involved, not happening but you do it, chrissy, and. I'll show up every once in a while. Yeah, no.

Kerry: 6:22

No Girl Scouts here, no Brownie.

Kerry: 6:24

No, no, and I'll show up everyone's, yeah no, no girl scouts here, no brownie, no, no. Okay. Well, we had a girl scout camp not far from where growing up, where I lived, but now it's actually like literally a mile around the corner from my house now and, oh gosh, where was I even going with the girl scout? Oh, okay, crazy kate. So, anyways, right before you got to the entrance of the girl scout camp, this was like way out in the country. So there was this house, this farmhouse, and it had this lady in her. Everyone knew her as Crazy Kate. I don't know if Kate was her first name, I don't know, but that was the legend of Crazy Kate and this lady, like everyone talked about her because of all like the weird things that she did.

Kerry: 7:00

Well, when we moved back to Ohio and we got our farm, I quickly started realizing like, oh my God, I'm turning into Crazy Kate, because I found myself doing some of the things that we would see Crazy Kate do. What was she doing? And now it made sense to me. One of the things that she would do is be like in the middle of the field, la, la, la, la, la, like and around at the sky and like you know, whatever. And so well, when we move to our farm we have barn swallows, just a little bird oh, you're looking at me like, and it sounds like a huge entertainment okay, barn swallows are a little bird.

Kerry: 7:41

Okay, a living bird, yeah it's a living bird and they catch like little bugs and I love these little birds like I. They just fascinate me. So if we're mowing the grass, that like stirs up all the bugs so they get real active and they'll start swarming. I'll be mowing the grass and I'll like realize I'm looking at the birds swarming and my lines are no longer straight. Oh, boy.

Chirsy: 8:03

good thing you're out in the country. You get somebody who'll totally ticket you if you did that in our neighborhood, oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

Kerry: 8:12

Well, needless to say, jim Woff didn't have to come and re-mow what I did because the lines weren't straight. I realized one day when I was out there and I was like, oh, look at the birds. Nobody else could see little birds swooping around, but I'm out there mowing in this crazy pattern because I'm like, oh, maybe crazy kate was looking at the little birds might be. And then we put a flagpole up and it's kind of in the middle of this big field that's right next to our house. When the concrete was curing we wanted to, you know, put our initials and stuff in it. Well, we poured the concrete, like the night before Six in the morning, I got out to do chores and I thought, oh, let me go check the concrete.

Kerry: 8:50

Well, it was almost already hardened up. So here I am, six in the morning, carving our initials in the middle, like, but no one could see that because the pole wasn't in the ground. So you just see this lady, six in the morning, in the middle of this field digging up something or whatever. And I'm like who? I'm sure it looked crazy to all the people on 224 driving by our farm. So again my thought was oh yeah, crazy kate. Crazy kate was probably digging in the grass doing something. You know and so, but you didn't know the whole story. You know, and so well when you didn't know the whole story.

Chirsy: 9:24

You know, and so well when you're a kid to exactly the storytelling right, right just want to totally make it fascinating right, right, you do like sort of amplify it create these fantastic scenarios.

Kerry: 9:37

The other thing I found myself doing was we had a little goat and a little sheep walking. We have six, seven acres and so I had them out and I was walking around the property and all these little animals like I was like the Pied Piper, and all these little animals were following me and so again I was like this is crazy, kate. You know, it's kind of funny. I catch myself doing things and then I'll ask the same thing like, oh, what am I doing? That was my parents. But the crazy Kate thing always gets me. When I'm at my house and I'm doing something silly outside, or prospectively silly, I'll be like, oh yeah, I'm crazy Kate, I'm the new crazy Kate and I'm only a mile from the original crazy Kate, crazy Kate 2.0.

Chirsy: 10:15

Yes, when you were talking about this lady living sort of like that right away, I was like sounds a little bit like the Blair Witch.

Kerry: 10:28

I've only seen snippets of it because I don't like that movie.

Chirsy: 10:30

I know, oh, my gosh, you know how I feel. Yeah, I know. Oh well, we'll talk about that another time.

Kerry: 10:35

What were some of the things that your, your moms and dad did growing up that catch you?

Chirsy: 10:41

Well, superstitions, yeah, are crazy thing, and I think at some point everybody's a victim to that. My mom has some. That is very crazy, I guess, to say the least, although maybe some people also have these. So one of them is that's always a problem and sometimes it affects everybody else too. According to my mother, you cannot exit the door of someone's house that you didn't come through when you came there, so you must exit the same door you entered. Okay, so if you're at someone's house and all of a sudden that door is no longer available or it's more convenient for them to let you out a different way, uh-huh, my mom is in full panic for them to let you out a different way, uh-huh.

Chirsy: 11:29

My mom is in full panic. Or if you try to exit somebody's house, she remembers oh, she catalogs Broke the rules.

Kerry: 11:33

Well, she knows where you came in. Oh, and how does she like hurry up and escort you to the right door?

Chirsy: 11:38

She's like no no, we need to go out that. You need to go out that door. I don't know what's going to happen. Wow, if you. But there's a, there's a side note, there's a caveat. If it's your house, okay, you can come and go any door you want. You could jump out the window, jump off the roof, do whatever you want.

Kerry: 12:00

But if you're visiting that rule applies. So if I came to your house and I went in the front door and then say we went outside to your backyard and I was going to leave, I couldn't just go out the gate to the car, I'd have to go back in through the house and back through the front door. If my mother was hosting you.

Chirsy: 12:13

yes, she would shuffle you. I mean, I would tell you if she's there. I mean she's here now, we can try it after when you go to leave.

Kerry: 12:20

But she didn't see what door I came in. Well, she knew, we told you guys to come through the other door because where she's at, we didn't want the cold air to hit her Right, right, right.

Chirsy: 12:29

Delicate little sweetheart. Another one was you can't go home after a funeral, don't go straight home. Where are you supposed to go? You know the home after a funeral. Don't go straight home. Where are you supposed to go something? You know the saying you don't have, you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. Well, you can't go home, but you can go wherever the hell else you want.

Kerry: 12:48

That's not your home. So after a funeral, what would you have to go do? All of us, because generally you're not going to a funeral by yourself yeah chances are if you're by yourself you're gonna be like look, I'm just gonna do whatever I gotta get home I can't be doing this damn any superstition, but generally you're with a group, my shoulder and I'll be fine yeah right, you hope.

Chirsy: 13:07

But so you're in a group of people, you're all in the same car. You, you know you're going home. Oh no, no, no, we gotta go here. I mean, it was just, and everybody participated in this. We would normally stop at a gas station, okay, and maul around in funeral clothes like the night of the living dead in there, because we just came from.

Kerry: 13:27

So if you pulled into the gas station on the way home, if your dad went into the store no, no you all had yeah everybody had. Everybody had to physically cross another threshold.

Chirsy: 13:37

Yes, and I'm guessing you had to drop off any sort of dead spirits that you had attached to you. So I would tell everybody now that this is a warning when you go to the gas station there's probably a bunch of dropped off dead spirits just roaming the aisles getting gas, getting a slurpee, maybe robbing the joint.

Kerry: 14:05

But if you stopped and got gas and you all got out of the car but didn't go into the store, would that still count? Like say you just got out of the car and had a cigarette break or whatever. No, you had to physically go into another building. Yeah, you had to cross, go into another building.

Chirsy: 14:19

Yeah, you had to cross another threshold and make sure you exit that door the same way you went yeah, if there's two exits, don't you dare so. The in and out rule didn't make just home, it was everywhere yeah well, you mean, oh well, you mean you could go to like jc pennies or something.

Kerry: 14:34

Yeah, if I went into the east entrance at jc pennies, did I have to leave the east entrance or could I go through the north?

Chirsy: 14:39

entrance? Yeah, probably, because, like because.

Kerry: 14:41

I wasn't over there. Unless you're getting picked up. Unless you get picked up, okay, there's caveat.

Chirsy: 14:46

Well see now, this isn't a residence now.

Kerry: 14:48

That's what I'm asking. Yeah, commercial or residence, it was residence, it was only Okay. We got to get the rules right.

Chirsy: 14:58

I know, and you know what's really terrifying is that you're sitting here asking me questions. I've never been asked and yet I know the answers and there is nothing written anywhere you don't get a booklet on this.

Chirsy: 15:11

You just get it ingrained in yourself, your soul, and it's like what, why? So? Then my mom added another footnote years later, uh-oh, because then she's like well, you can't even go home after you go to the cemetery. And for some reason my family loved to go to the cemetery and stare at stones with people's names on it. Let's stop off at the cemetery, stop at so-and-so's grave. And my mom's like, well, we can't go home.

Kerry: 15:35

And I was like stop, oh, so even if it wasn't from a funeral, so it wasn't like funeral cemetery, you're talking like, hey, we're just going to go to the cemetery and pay our respects Then that rule also applied.

Chirsy: 15:45

It started to oh, it didn't always seem to be that way, but then something happened.

Kerry: 15:51

I don't know if like that was a Jane rule 2.0.

Chirsy: 15:53

Yeah, and it's like wait a minute. I don't remember this being the rule, and guess what?

Kerry: 15:58

No we're not doing this.

Chirsy: 16:00

Guess what Just won't go to the cemetery. I understand people get some satisfaction and that's the way they can relate and that's fine, Absolutely. But with my mom you're just going to learn to not go places anymore, because these rules might pop up, because you just can't deal with it. Another thing was you couldn't have live fish in the house. What I mean? Dead fish game on.

Kerry: 16:25

Well, yeah, we talked about that. Yeah, night of the seven fishes, More fish, the merrier, as long as they're dead.

Chirsy: 16:31

But if you have fish as a pet. So you never had a pet fish, no time. My sister took me long time ago. Used to be a store a long time ago called gc murphy's and real. I mean we're talking. I don't even know if that one cracked the 80s as far as its existence it was it's an old store.

Chirsy: 16:49

They had a little pet section. You know, I think my sister got me a pink and a blue goldfish. Oh, and I was so, was so excited oh, these lovely fish, because they kind of look like toys and brought them home. And my mom came home and saw a little fishbowl with these swimming fish in them. Oh, my gosh, freaked out, no, freaked. Get those out of the house right now. Made my sister take them back.

Kerry: 17:13

I don't know if she even made it back.

Chirsy: 17:14

She it back. She might have dumped him down the toilet. I don't know what happened to him so horrible, but my mother would not allow him in the house. I, I don't.

Kerry: 17:21

It's bad luck, it's bad so it wasn't if she didn't want pet fish. It was just because you cannot have fish in the house, right?

Chirsy: 17:27

oh my gosh but isn't fish a symbol of the original fisherman jesus?

Kerry: 17:34

our lord. Yeah, they do the fish symbol. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and he was a fisherman, but he obviously wasn't taking live fish home.

Chirsy: 17:40

He didn't have a pet fish, no.

Kerry: 17:43

He was doing it for food no beta fish for him?

Chirsy: 17:45

No so whenever I go and it's still to this day, carrie if I go to somebody's house. And they have pet fish and they have fish, a fish tank. I get a little sweaty, you ptsd, because I'm like, oh my god, how's your luck going here? Everything going good, you guys, everybody, nobody's gotten hurt dead anything now okay, wow, oh, my god, the bullet on that.

Kerry: 18:07

Yeah, I gotta get out of here, though, because it's a ticking time bomb here. People, I don't know good thing I didn't have any fish in my house when you started, oh, and you know what's funny is, I think both of my sisters, especially my one sister, had like aquariums all over her house and they and they're beautiful yeah I do like, really like them.

Chirsy: 18:27

They are, yeah, lovely to watch and I know they're a little bit to maintain. I'm guessing.

Kerry: 18:32

Yeah, you have to keep them clean.

Chirsy: 18:33

And yeah, I mean they're relaxing my, my son, he, when he we go anywhere and they have uh, yeah, he's like a fascinated of course you are. They're fun. My son, when we go anywhere and they have, he's like fascinated. Of course you are they're fun to watch.

Kerry: 18:43

Now, okay, so here's another. Going back to like the question we had on the gas station there If you go to a retail establishment that has an aquarium like if you went to Bass Pro Shop where they have all that would your mom be equally freaked out or it was only residential, that you couldn't have pet fish? Oh yeah, no, just again, residential, it's just residential.

Chirsy: 19:04

That's effective, it's a residential yeah, retail seems to be exempt from all of these rules. Thank goodness, because it'd be like, well, I can't go here. I can't go there, I can't go here, I can't go here and I unfortunately am a victim because I do watch a lot of movies yes of a superstition that my husband gets very mad at me because I freak out if I see this happen here, and if I accidentally do it, I freak out on myself. What do you do? Don't ever have a hat on a bed.

Kerry: 19:30

Oh yeah, that's a big cowboy thing. Is it a cowboy thing? It is a big cowboy thing.

Chirsy: 19:34

It makes sense because the movie that I learned that from Drugstore Cowboy oh, I don't know it it's about people who rob drugstores. Oh, I think it's actual, based on a true story. They rob drug, they're drug addicts okay, so they're drugstore cowboys. Oh, and Matt Dillon and somebody my age yeah, yum, gotta love Matt Dillon. If Matt Dillon tells me, don't put a hat on a bed, no way, dude, I will not put a hat on a bed.

Kerry: 20:03

Thank you, Matt Dylan.

Chirsy: 20:04

My husband will sometimes get very mad at me because I will see one of his ball caps on the bed or even on the foot of the like on the railing.

Kerry: 20:12

Okay, oh, it can't even hang on the.

Chirsy: 20:15

Well, technically it probably could, because it's not on the bed but sort of it kind of is on the bed. No, I will grab that thing and whip it. I was like out of here, goodbye, no hats anywhere near this bed.

Kerry: 20:25

That is so funny that you say that you must not be a Yellowstone fan.

Chirsy: 20:29

That I watched some of it and it's a good show. Ok, yeah, I did watch some of it.

Kerry: 20:36

There was not too long ago an episode on Yellowstone in the final season-ish here, and one of the characters passes away and when they went to his bunk in the bunkhouse to clean things out, his hat was on the bed. Oh no, yeah. And the one character was like isn't wait, isn't that bad luck? And the other character was like isn't wait, isn't that bad luck? And the other character is like well, it doesn't matter now, because the guys, because the guys did.

Kerry: 21:02

Yeah, oh but it's interesting that you bring that one up, because that was just on the yellow.

Chirsy: 21:07

Wow, yeah, yeah, well, death was related to the incident in the drugstore cowboy too, that they kind of connected because there was a disbeliever in their group. They kind of connected because there was a disbeliever in their group, somebody they had picked up that was part of their little posse, and the character was just sort of a pain in the butt through the whole.

Kerry: 21:23

Thing.

Chirsy: 21:24

And just to prove everybody wrong, she tossed her hat on the bed and said this is stupid. You people are stupid. Why do you believe this stupid stuff? And then she died. They found her dead Again. That's another reason to reinforce me. Oh my God, god, don't put that hat on the bed. Don't put that on the bed. Well, I do. You have any superstitions?

Kerry: 21:45

there wasn't necessarily superstitions, but there was definitely idiosyncrasies.

Chirsy: 21:51

Let's call them idiosyncrasies okay, if you want to go ahead.

Kerry: 21:55

My dad was, like, so addicted to salt. He salted everything, anything he would just like, and he was one of those. He wouldn't even taste his food, he would just automatically start pounding the salt on it so it didn't matter, did it need it or not, exactly he just salt, salt, you know.

Kerry: 22:14

Which is why I think a lot of times, like I don't cook with a lot of salt, like I might put a little tiny bit in, but then I leave it for whoever's eating to taste it, because if he made anything, it was so salty so right, this is how you know you may have a salt addiction. So my dad was in the hospital because of some heart issue. I wonder why too salt. Anyway, they put him on a no salt diet.

Kerry: 22:40

So no sodium for him, as he's in the hospital and he was there for like I don't know a couple of days or whatever, and he was going through so much salt addiction and he wore contacts. I told my mom well, when you come and visit me, I need saline solution for my contacts. So my mom brings in, you know, a bottle of saline solution, he opens it up and he starts putting it on his food. Oh my God, he was using the saline solution to get salt on his food because they put him on a nose all the time.

Chirsy: 23:08

Oh my gosh. I know it was bad.

Kerry: 23:11

It was To this day. I remember being in the hospital going. I don't think you're supposed to be doing that it kind of defe this day. I remember being in the hospital going. I don't I don't think you're supposed to be doing that kind of defeats the nose and ew, you're putting salt or saline solution on your lettuce.

Chirsy: 23:26

Oh my god anybody here wear contact lenses. Do not go into room. 256, 256, don't enter with your saline solution. Wow, that is not bad, that's bad, that's bad yeah.

Kerry: 23:41

My brother-in-law and I were just recently talking about this, the other day while we were having lunch with my mom, and because I think he was salting something, and I'm like, oh, I can't even, and we were taught this reminisce and brought this subject up. So, anyways, he goes. I'll never forget your dad would go get pizza, pepperoni pizza full of pepperoni, and the first thing he would do is come home and he'd salt it and it's like pepperoni, come on, like there's how much salt in that? You know he would be adding the salt to it. So I looked at my mom. I'm like, mom, do you remember dad doing these things? She goes and she goes. Well, it's crazier is that I married him.

Chirsy: 24:21

Well, well, she might have a point there.

Kerry: 24:22

Oh my god that was the cutest little, most innocent thing.

Chirsy: 24:23

But yeah, yeah, salt salting, salting, so well my dad likes salt, yeah, and I think when kids he did have high blood pressure we did have like a salt substitute thing going on, oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah right, it's like I can't believe it's not butter.

Kerry: 24:37

Yeah, I know what is it?

Chirsy: 24:39

I don't know. I don't like anything that tells me it's not something that it's trying to be Saline solution.

Kerry: 24:42

Well, yeah.

Chirsy: 24:44

What are they advertising? But one thing, and I guess I found out that this actually wasn't that unusual even if you were or were not a salt addict, my dad would salt watermelon. Oh, my husband loves that yeah. So I think that's a thing. It's certainly not to the level of whatever your dad had.

Kerry: 25:00

He was obviously suffering from some sort of deprivation of salt, and he needed it in his diet as quickly as possible.

Chirsy: 25:07

The other thing I remember when I was little I had a friend over and we were eating something and obviously it required some salting, and she must have dropped some salt on the table when she was salting her food, okay, so she grabbed like a handful and she threw it over her shoulder.

Kerry: 25:22

Oh yeah, the whole throwing the salt over the shoulder.

Chirsy: 25:24

I was like what did you just do? Why are you throwing stuff on the floor? What the hell was that? Why are you throwing food in my house? She's like, oh you know, because I spilled salt, you got to do another super crazy superstition If you spill salt Whipping salt, what?

Chirsy: 25:38

Who the hell told you to do that? The salt ended, morton. Yes, because you know how often you spill salt. All the time it's little, it goes all over. So they probably just figure we'll tell everybody that if you spill it, yeah, spill more, yeah, and then you have to buy more. What a fantastic marketing idea. Hey, they made millions. Be paranoid about what people tell you to do. It's really really got an underhanded reasoning behind it.

Kerry: 26:07

Oh my gosh. So yeah, I think every little bit, every day, I find something little that I do. I go, yeah, as much as I try to do better, that's the other thing. We're all here trying to do better, I still catch myself doing these things. Yeah, yeah, they are with us all the time. Good time, good memories.

Chirsy: 26:27

Yeah.

Kerry: 26:28

All right, well, I think that probably wraps up today's show.

Chirsy: 26:31

Yeah, yeah, I got to get to a funeral and then go get some gum at the convenience store.

Kerry: 26:38

So we want to hear what crazy superstitions or things that your family maybe did or that you catch yourself doing, or maybe what do you find yourself doing that's reminiscent of your parents. That used to make you go, oh my gosh, I'm never going to do that. And then now you're doing it.

Chirsy: 26:54

So let us know, please, please, give me something else, because the ones I have, I need to change it up.

Kerry: 27:01

All right, everybody, have a wonderful week. We'll see you next week. Bye, bye-bye.