nPostednon March 13, 2016
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Don’tnwalk under a ladder, or you’ll have bad luck!
Don’tnwalk under a ladder, or you’ll have bad luck!n
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nIfna black cat crosses your path, you’ll have bad luck!
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nIfnyou break a mirror, you’ll have bad luck – SEVEN YEARS of bad luck!
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nIfnyou step on sidewalk crack, you’ll have bad luck!
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nIfnyou open an umbrella indoors, you’ll have bad luck!
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nAccordingnto superstitions, there are lots of ways to bring bad luck down onnyourself. But of course, I’m sure you know that these are silly bitsnof folklore that – although they have been handed down forngenerations – haven’t got a shred of truth to them.
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nInmean, let’s face it, every day bad things AND good things happen tonall of us. We could look carefully at every day and think, “Well,nhere’s an example of good luck, and here is an example of bad luck.”nBut the truth is, there really is no such thing as “luck.”
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nEverythingnthat happens, good or bad, has an explanation. Sometimes thenexplanation isn’t very satisfying. For example, a person wasncareful all of her life not to smoke, not to live in a place with airnpollution, not to work in a job where she has to breathe toxicnchemicals – and yet she still gets lung cancer. The explanation may be that she inherited bad genes. That explanation seems not only unsatisfying, it seems unfair! But it still might be true.
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nHere’snanother example: A couple of friends may enter prize drawings everynweek at the library summer reading program, and one friendnmay win three times over the course of the summer, while the other friendnmay not win at all. Again, it seems totally unfair! And we may wantnto say, X has good luck, and Y does not. But the truth is probablynthat X the winning and the not-winning were just chance.
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Anman named Thomas E. Knibb started National Open an Umbrella IndoorsnDay to encourage people to notice that, when they break thensuperstitious rules, nothing happens. Well, of course, stuff DOESnhappen, and like always, it is a mix of good and bad stuff. But therenisn’t a sudden, dramatic uptick of bad things happening after younopen an umbrella indoors.
Anman named Thomas E. Knibb started National Open an Umbrella IndoorsnDay to encourage people to notice that, when they break thensuperstitious rules, nothing happens. Well, of course, stuff DOESnhappen, and like always, it is a mix of good and bad stuff. But therenisn’t a sudden, dramatic uptick of bad things happening after younopen an umbrella indoors.n
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nChecknand see!
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nNOTE: Obviously, openingnumbrellas anywhere can be tricky. If you aren’t careful, you couldnknock something off a shelf or counter, or you could poke someone,nwhen you open an umbrella. So…be careful!
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nOfncourse, to celebrate Open an Umbrella Indoors Day, you could do more than just test out superstitions.
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nYouncould create a private play spot…
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ndecorate a room with a large garden-sizednumbrella…
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nbuild an umbrella fort (probably outside, where younhave more space!)…
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nAlsonon this date:
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nDaylightnSavings Time begins
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nThailand Elephant Day
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nDecorationnDay in Liberia
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nDonaldnDuck’s birthday
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nLooknUp at the Night Sky Day
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nScientistnJoseph Priestly’s birthday (he “discovered” oxygen!)
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nAndnhere are my Pinterest boards for:
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