Ingrained superstitions.

[Tilly2]

I consider myself to be a logical and reasonably sane person but I can't get away from some daft superstitious behaviour that has been ingrained in me since I was a child.

For example, if i put something on back to front, I have to take it off and turn a full circle before I put it on again. Also, I won't cut my nails on Friday or Sunday because it's bad luck to do so.

And............I always throw some salt over my shoulder if I spill some.
Do any of you have the same or similar 'problem' with illogical behaviour?

[Bambiagain]

Suuny-Dave - it's sock, sock, shoe, shoe unless I'm wearing my boots, which need a second pair of sock. Then it's sock, sock, sock, boot, sock, boot. Am I strange? It's nothing to do with superstition, though. I salute magpies and don't walk under ladders.

[gness]

Dave. Have you ever been wardrobe mistress for am dram and had to accommodate all that malarky? The things I had to put on and take off in a certain order is nobody`s business.

[sunny-dave]

My introduction to the mysteries of female underclothing was as an asm courtesy of my local am dram group ...

[Bambiagain]

Having acted in am drams, I must say I've not come across that problem. Normally it was just a frantic rush to get into the next change of clothes, sometimes having to fling the first lot off as soon as the audience couldn't see you and flinging the next lot on just in time to get back on stage.

[gness]

Now that I didn`t know. Good training though? :-)

[RATTER15]

The shoes on the table thing date back to the days of hanging, when you stood on a table with your shoes and then the table was kicked away apparently, hence the shoes, table, death.

and no I never cross my fingers, well not since a child anyway.

[gness]

Bet you never whistled Bambi.

[Maydup]

No whistling allowed on stage as it used to be the signal to bring the scenery in. If actors whistled, they would confuse matters no end and scenery would be lowered at the wrong time or on their heads!