Flashback Friday: Superstitions Unpacked

It's Flashback Friday, we are going back to Episode 12 Dysfunctional Superstitions and Idiosyncrasies. Ever follow a rule you can’t explain—like never putting a hat on the bed or refusing to go straight home after a funeral—and feel a jolt if someone breaks it? We revisit the strange superstitions and sticky family quirks that still tug at our choices, especially in spooky season, and trace how they became part of our daily scripts.

Chapters

• 0:00 Flashback Friday Setup
• 0:31 Superstitions List: Mirrors, Eggs, Stars
• 2:59 Shoes, Hats, and Doorway Rules
• 5:18 Becoming “Crazy Kate” on the Farm
• 8:58 Cemetery Detours and Threshold Lore
• 12:30 No Fish at Home and Retail Loopholes
• 14:47 Hat-on-Bed Bad Luck and Pop Culture
• 16:20 Salt Obsessions and Family Quirks
• 18:10 Spill the Salt, Tell Us Yours

Transcript

DJ NICK: 0:07

Welcome to a Flashback Friday edition of the Dysfunction Junkies podcast. We may not have seen it all, but we've seen enough. And now here are your hosts, Christy and Carrie.

KERRY: 0:21

Hello, junkies. I'm Kerry.

CHRISY: 0:23

And I'm Chrissy.

KERRY: 0:24

So it's Flashback Friday today. Love Friday. Flashback Friday especially. Exactly. So since we're in the month of October and we got Halloween coming up, so we thought it would be best to flash back to episode 12 when we talked about dysfunctional superstitions and idiosyncrasies. Yes. So Chrissy, you know, we talked about last episode. We talked about phobias. And when we were preparing for this flashback episode, I found a list of some different superstitions and stuff that I thought, you know, we didn't talk about them on the original episode, but I thought I would scroll through and name some of these.

CHRISY: 1:03

Right.

KERRY: 1:03

So some of them were common, like, you know, you don't want to uh break a mirror or else you get seven years of bad luck, or you don't want to walk under a ladder. But then there were these other ones that I found kind of interesting. So one of them was saying that you want to avoid sleeping with mirr facing the bed because it's believed to drain energy or invite spirits during sleep. I I can get it.

CHRISY: 1:26

All of a sudden you take a glance at mirror and you're like, where did the fat bitch come from? Oh shoot, it's me! That's terrible. The mirror thing and everybody in the 70s with their mirrors. I mean, yeah, they were inviting something. No, they were.

KERRY: 1:46

Yeah. Objects in mirror appear closer than they are. Yeah. Bigger than they are. Bigger. Anyways, there was other things on here like, oh, let's see. Breaking eggshells to prevent witches. What the heck goes up with that? How are you supposed to open an egg without breaking it?

CHRISY: 2:05

Like, I don't know. I thought that one was weird. That was very weird.

KERRY: 2:08

Yeah. And then there was this one. Dreaming of fish means pregnancy. Many people believe that dreaming of fish signals that someone is close to expecting a baby.

CHRISY: 2:17

What within your family unit or a close friend, or just it earth-wide. I don't know. Jeez on me.

KERRY: 2:30

Now, this is a cute one, and I think we've all done this. Seeing a shooting star and granting a wish. So, you know, we see a shooting star. Oh, we make a wish, you saw a shooting star. That was that was kind of like, oh, that's a good one.

CHRISY: 2:41

So my wish is that it's gonna land in the ocean. I ain't got time to make no frou fru happy wish, like uh, you know. I what what? You know, I'm sitting there seeing that fly by. I'm like, oh man, wonder where that's gonna be.

KERRY: 2:59

All right. So this one's kind of similar to one we did talk about in our episode. This was uh avoid leaving shoes upside down. Uh in some cultures, leaving shoes upside down is thought to bring bad luck or invite evil spirits. Is that kind of along the lines of your hat on the bed?

CHRISY: 3:14

I don't know if it is or not, but I've got a big problem because kids choose every which way, everywhere. Even me, probably.

KERRY: 3:23

Okay. I don't know.

CHRISY: 3:24

Kick those shoes off.

KERRY: 3:25

I didn't even know that was a thing. I didn't either.

CHRISY: 3:27

Oh God.

KERRY: 3:28

Now you got one more thing to worry about.

CHRISY: 3:29

This is insane.

KERRY: 3:30

So now you're gonna be going through the house, making sure there's no hats on the bed and the shoes are all upright.

CHRISY: 3:34

The the hat thing really it affects me all the time. And I do have to say that I do secretly, if we're somewhere, I will people watch a little bit, as we all do. Uh-huh. And sometimes I knew I do make a mental note that uh if so and so is leaving the gathering, yeah, I'm like, wait a minute. That's not the door they came. They're leaving for another door. Somebody needs to let me know if they make it home. Just curious.

KERRY: 3:59

If I knew how to get out of your house, I would purposely go out another door when I leave now, but your house is too complicated to get out of. It is a compound.

CHRISY: 4:07

I do live in a compound, yes. So uh and actually, I don't, it doesn't really like affect me like I'm like, oh my god, I have to yell at you to tell you to notice it. But I just notice it, which I find offensive that I even have to be bothered with this thought. It's it's unfortunate.

KERRY: 4:23

So it's kind of interesting going through this list and have a kind of I wish we would have had it then. We might have to do another whole episode on this, maybe another time, about these different superstitions and stuff. Yeah, absolutely. But for now, go and enjoy our flashback Friday episode of Dysfunctional Superstitions. This was our episode 12. So enjoy. Enjoy everybody. Hello, junkies. Welcome back. I'm Carrie.

CHRISY: 4:48

And I'm Chrissy. Oh, Chrissy.

KERRY: 4:51

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.

CHRISY: 5:01

Yeah, I'm trying to think how I'm feeling about that. You know, it it it feels uh good to talk about it. Yes. And I think it is good to talk about it, especially somebody who totally uh gets it. Yes, but it also is a little drainy, it is very draining. We need to pick me up on this topic. Because really, where does all of our dysfunction stem from? And we're not trying to point fingers, nope, nope, no judgment, no blame. No, but uh it kind of does start with the mom and dad a little bit. Yeah, and then their mom and dad. It's an endless cycle, everyone.

KERRY: 5:34

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

CHRISY: 5:42

You gotta really fight not to I know that there, I mean come on, we we can't be liars to ourselves and say that sometimes we don't catch that. Oh my god, that's sort of like what my mom or 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.

KERRY: 6:01

That's true. 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 gonna use that one as an adult.

CHRISY: 6:12

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

KERRY: 6:17

No. My mom used to always say, It's gonna get worse before it gets better. Well, yeah, oh yeah.

CHRISY: 6:22

And I I I that one well, and I told you my whole philosophy was this is gonna be better. Right, right. Worse and worse and worse. But yeah, my mom, I know, I quiet. She made me do crazy things, but uh not really any sayings. Now, uh my my husband's uh 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 gonna do this. And my husband will always come at me and go, Chrissy, you gotta be the better person. Oh I and I'm like, wait a minute. Do you remember who you married, Nick? Well, for 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, but you're gonna be the better person, 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 it encompasses two things I hate math and bullshit. Two wrongs, 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 is true. That you make that woman on the GPS that's always annoying the hell out of me.

KERRY: 7:54

We call her MapLissa.

CHRISY: 7:55

Oh my god. One time I was in a car test driving a car with a guy, and the the cell, the sales guy was in the back, and that thing was on. And I said, This is so horrible, and I'm gonna offend women. I don't know, I might offend men, I'm gonna offend everybody right now. But I used I told him, I said, you know, I can see why you guys block us women out. I say, because listening to this woman give me directions is annoying the hell out of me. I'm like, can you change up the voice uh maybe uh 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 uh before I get to my destination?

KERRY: 8:42

That's like the Alexa's, 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.

CHRISY: 8:57

Well, it could be a woman or but I mean she's very uh authoritarian. Is that the word? I mean, and what's funny is the Alexa we have in our house. Yeah, it it likes everybody but me. Oh, that's my husband. He doesn't listen to that. It will not. I'll tell it, set a timer, you know, play this song. Uh-huh. It it crickets, dead silence. And then my daughter or my husband will talk to her right away. Yeah. Okay, setting a timer.

KERRY: 9:24

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. Like so annoyed by it because the Alexis said good morning.

CHRISY: 9:36

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, uh-huh, it doesn't acknowledge me at all. It always says my daughter's name. Oh. It says her name. Oh, that's and I just get this, I scrunch my face up and snirk 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: 10:09

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. I regretted it as soon as it was gonna be. I thought maybe your mom made you or something. Come on.

CHRISY: 10:36

Mom, mom would have told me to do it. Does it require her to be involved? Not happening. But you do it, Chrissy. And I'll show up every once in a while. Yeah, no, no Girl Scouts here, no brownie.

KERRY: 10:49

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 camp? Oh, okay, Crazy Kate. So, anyways, right before you got to the entrance of the Girl Scout camp, and 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. 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, liking around at the sky and like, you know, whatever. And so, well, when we moved to our farm, we have barn swallows, just a little bird. Oh, you're looking at me like a minute, that sounds like something dirty.

CHRISY: 11:58

No. And it it sounds like a huge undertaking too.

KERRY: 12:03

Okay. Barn swallows are a little bird. 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.

CHRISY: 12:26

Oh boy. So good thing you're out in the country. Yeah, you get uh somebody will totally stick at you if you did that in our neighborhood. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

KERRY: 12:37

Well, needless to say, Jim will often have to come and remote what I did because the lines weren't straight. I realized one day when I was out there and I was like, look at the birds. Like, I know nobody else can see the little birds swooping around, but I'm out there mowing in this crazy pattern. So 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 go out to do chores and I thought, oh, let me go check the concrete. 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 at six in the morning in the middle of this field digging at something or whatever. And I'm like, who knows? 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.

CHRISY: 13:49

And so Well, when you're a kid too. Exactly. The storytelling, right, right. You just want to totally make it fascinating. Right, right. So you do like sort of uh amplify it, create these fantastic scenarios.

KERRY: 14:02

The other thing I found myself doing was we had a little goat and a little sheep walking. Uh 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 uh, and then I'll ask the same thing, like, oh, what am I doing? That was uh 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.

CHRISY: 14:39

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

KERRY: 14:50

I've only seen snippets of it because I don't like that movie. I know. Oh my gosh. You know how I feel about it. Yeah, I know.

CHRISY: 14:58

Oh well, we'll talk about that another time.

KERRY: 15:00

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

CHRISY: 15:06

Well, superstitions are a crazy thing, and I think at some point everybody's a victim to that. Yeah. My mom has some that is very crazy, I guess, uh uh to say the least. Although maybe some people also have these. So one of them is that's always a problem, and sometimes it it affects everybody else too, is uh according to my mother, okay, you cannot exit the door of someone's house that you didn't come through when you came there. Oh. 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. Or if you try to exit somebody's house, she remembers. Oh she categorized the roles. She well, she knows where you came in.

KERRY: 15:59

Oh and how does she like hurry up and escort you to the right door?

CHRISY: 16:03

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

KERRY: 16:22

So if I came to your house and I went in the front door, yeah, and then say we went outside to your backyard and I was gonna 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.

CHRISY: 16:35

If my mother was hosting you, yes, she would shuffle you. I mean, I would tell you if she's there, I mean she's here now. We could try it after when you go to leave. 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 don't want the cold air to hit her. Right, right, right. Okay. Delicate little sweetheart that she's and another one was you can't go home after a funeral. Don't go straight home. Where are you supposed to go? Something you you know, the saying you don't have you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. Well, you you can't go home, but you can go wherever the hell else you want. That's not your home. So after a funeral, what would you have to go do? Uh uh 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 that I gotta get home. I can't be doing this. DM any super citizens. Yeah, right. You hope. 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: 17:52

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

CHRISY: 18:06

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: 18:29

But you know, 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 you know, like had a cigarette break or whatever. No, you had to physically go into another building. Yeah, you had to cross another threshold. And make sure you exit that door.

CHRISY: 18:47

The same way you would if there's two exits, don't you dare.

KERRY: 18:50

So the in and out roll didn't make just home. It was everywhere. Yeah. Well, you mean, oh, well, you mean you could go to like JC Penny's or something? Yeah, if I went into the east entrance at JCPenney's, did I have to leave the east entrance or could I go through the north entrance up?

CHRISY: 19:05

Yeah, probably, because like over there. Well unless you're getting picked up. Unless you get picked up.

KERRY: 19:10

Okay, there's caveat.

CHRISY: 19:11

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

KERRY: 19:13

That's why I'm asking. Is it commercial or residence?

CHRISY: 19:16

It was residence.

KERRY: 19:17

It was only okay. Yeah, yeah. Retail didn't count. Retail didn't.

CHRISY: 19:21

Retail.

KERRY: 19:22

We gotta get the rules right. I know.

CHRISY: 19:24

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, 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. And let's stop off at the cemetery, stop at so-and-so's grave. And my mom was like, Well, we can't go home. And I was like, Stop.

KERRY: 20:01

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 gonna go to the cemetery and pay our respects. Then that all rule also applied. It started to. Oh, okay.

CHRISY: 20:12

It didn't always seem to be that way. But then something happened. I don't know if like that was a Jane rule 2.0. Yeah. And it's like, wait a minute. I don't remember this being the rule. And guess what? No, we're not doing this. Guess what? I just won't go to the cemetery. I'm what it, you know. I understand people get and they get they get some, you know, satisfaction. And some agree, you know, that's the way they can relate, and that's fine. Uh absolutely. But yeah, with my mom, you're just gonna learn to not go places anymore because these rules might pop up. Deal with it. Another thing was you couldn't have live fish in the house. What? I mean, dead fish game on. Well, yeah, we talked about that. Yeah. Night of the seven fishes. More fish the merrier, as long as they're dead. But if you have fish as a pet, you never had a pet fish. No, one 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. 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 excited. Oh, these lovely fish, because they kind of look like toys. Yeah. And brought them home, and my mom came home and saw a little fish bowl 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. I don't know if she even made it back. She might have dumped them 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 it's a bad luck. It's bad luck.

KERRY: 21:47

So it wasn't that she didn't want pet fish, it was just bec you cannot have fish in the house. Right. Oh my gosh.

CHRISY: 21:53

But isn't fish a a symbol of the original fisherman, Jesus Our Lord?

KERRY: 21:59

Yeah, they do the fish symbol, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

CHRISY: 22:02

And he was a fisherman, but but he obviously wasn't taking live fish home.

KERRY: 22:05

He didn't have a pet fish. No.

CHRISY: 22:07

He was doing it for fish. No beta fish for him. 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, I get a little sweaty. 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. Yeah, I gotta get out of here though, because I just it's a ticking time bomb here, people. I don't know.

KERRY: 22:37

Good thing I didn't have any fish in my house when you started coming out.

CHRISY: 22:40

Oh, and you know what's funny is I think both of my sisters, uh, especially my one sister, had like aquariums all over her house. Oh and they and they're beautiful. Yeah, I do like really like them. They are lovely to watch, and I know they're a little bit to maintain, I'm guessing. Because you have to keep them clean. And yeah, I mean they're relaxing. My s my son, he when he we go anywhere and they have uh he's like uh fascinated. Of course you are, they're fun to watch, but now okay.

KERRY: 23:08

So here's another going back to like the question we had on the 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 the would your mom be equally freaked out, or it was only residential that you couldn't have pet fish? Oh yeah, no, just res again, residential. It's just residential that's affected. It's a residential rule.

CHRISY: 23:28

Retail is 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. Oh my god. I unfortunately am a victim because I do watch a lot of movies 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 all myself. What did you do? Don't ever have a hat on a bed.

KERRY: 23:54

Oh yeah. That's a big cowboy thing. Is it a cowboy thing?

CHRISY: 23:58

It is a big cowboy thing. Well, it makes sense because the movie that I learned that from, yeah, 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, 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. Thank you, Matt Dillon. 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. Okay. Oh, it can't even hang on the railing. No, it's not. Well, it technically it probably could because it's not on the bed, but sort of it kind of is on the bed. But I will grab that thing and whip it. I was like, outta here, goodbye. No hats anywhere near this bed. Damn you.

KERRY: 24:51

It's so funny that you say that. You must not be a Yellowstone fan then.

CHRISY: 24:55

I watched some of it, and uh I it's a good show. Okay. Yeah, I did watch some of it.

KERRY: 25:01

There was uh 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, Well, it doesn't matter now because the guy's because the guy's dead. Yeah, oh but um that was interesting that you bring that one up because that was just on the yellow slide too long ago.

CHRISY: 25:33

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, uh, somebody they had picked up that was part of their little posse. Oh and uh they the character was uh just sort of a pain in the butt through the whole thing. And uh just to prove everybody wrong, uh-huh, she tossed her hat on the bed and said, This is stupid. You people are stupid. Why do you believe this is stupid stuff? And then she died. She they found her dead. Again, that's another reason to reinforce me. Oh my god, don't put the hat on the bed, don't put the hat on the bed. Well, I do have any superstitions.

KERRY: 26:10

There wasn't necessarily superstitions, but there was definitely idi idiosyncrasies. Let's call them idiosyncrasies, might be the better word. My dad was like so addicted to salt. He salted everything. Anything he would just salt, 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 eat it or not? Exactly. Salt. He just salt, salt, you know. 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. Hmm, I wonder why. Too much salt. So anyway, they put him on a no-salt diet. So no sodium for him as he's in the hospital. And he was there for like, I don't know, a couple days or whatever. And he was going through so much salt addiction and he wore contacts. Told my mom, well, when you come and visit me, I I need saline solution for my contacts. Oh, 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 hot. Oh my god. It was bad. It was to this day. I remember being in the hospital going, ah, I don't I don't think you're supposed to be doing that. That kind of defeats the nose. And ew, you're putting salt or saline solution on your lettuce. Oh my god.

CHRISY: 27:53

Anybody here wear contact lenses? Do not go into room 256. 256, don't enter with your saline solution. Wow, that is that's that isn't a bad.

KERRY: 28:06

My brother-in-law and I were just recently talking about this the other day while we were having lunch with my mom. Um, because I think he was salting something, and I'm like, oh, I can't even. And we we were talking this reminisced 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? But 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, Whoa, what's crazier is that I married him. Well, she might have a point there.

CHRISY: 28:43

Oh my god. It was the cutest little most innocent thing, but yeah, yeah, salt, salting, 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, yeah, right. Like it's not butter. Yeah, I know. What is it? I don't know. I don't like anything that tells me it's not something that's a saline solution. Well, yeah. They're what are they advertising? But my one thing, and I guess I found out that this actually wasn't that unusual, even if you weren't a s were or were not a salt addict. My dad would salt watermelon.

KERRY: 29:19

Oh, oh, my husband loves that.

CHRISY: 29:20

Yeah. So I think that's a thing. It's certainly not to the level of whatever your dad had. He was obviously suffering from some sort of deprivation of salt, and he needed it in his diet as quickly as possible. The other thing I remember when I was little, I had a friend over and we were eating something, and I 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: 29:47

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

CHRISY: 29:49

And 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 face? She's like, oh, you know, because I spilled salt. You gotta do another soup. Crazy superstition. If you spill it. What? Who the hell told you to do that? The salt in it, Morton. Yeah, so they could buy it. Because you know how often you spill salt? All the time. It's little, it goes all over. So they probably just figure, well, tell everybody that if you spill it, 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 it's it's really really got an underhanded reasoning behind it.

KERRY: 30:32

Oh my gosh. So yeah, I think every little bit, every day, I find something little that I do. I go, yeah, I as much as I try to do do better.

CHRISY: 30:41

That's the other thing.

KERRY: 30:42

We're all gonna try better. I still catch myself doing these things. So yeah. Yeah. They are with us all the time. Good time, good memories. Yeah. All right. Well, I think that probably wraps up today's show. Yeah. Yeah.

CHRISY: 30:57

I gotta get to a funeral and then go get some gum at the convenience stores.

KERRY: 31:03

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

CHRISY: 31:18

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

KERRY: 31:25

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