Can someone please thank me - superstition

ta - all seems right again in the world

Snooze_Control wrote:

SC

I'm taking it that means !!!!!!.
I said it was a long story.
But here goes.....
My mum used to play a game with a pack of cards with me and my sister when we were kids that would prove she would die when she was 54.
(God knows why Northen Irish humour)
Basically she'd just shuffle a pack and turn over the cards until they reached a total of 54 i.e adding, subtracting, mutliplying the face value of the next card until she got to 54 - but as kids we fell for it.

On my mother's 54th birthday there was a terrible ....... I'm kidding she's actually 60 next week (and I haven't got a clue what to buy her - she's retiring this year as a headmistress and going off to do VSO probably in the Himalayas for 2 years if anyones got any suggestions).

Anyways since then the number 54 has always done my head in.

Nah
She's been a dam good teacher (and mum) just a bit of dark humour in that side of my family - nothing malicious.
I have found myself telling some tall dark tales to my own daughter over the years but I'm London Irish rather than Northen so not as extreme ;+)

EDIT: And no one start quoting Philip Larkin!:+)

soolin wrote:

I never could understand this Victorian way of frightening children to death with stories. All the 'don't be naughty or the bogey man will steal you away' kind of thing..no wonder we have some disturbed children nowadays.

I used to come into contact with a woman who threatened her young toddler twins with 'I'll have one of you adopted if you misbehave as one is enough' and I honestly had to stop seeing her as it made me shudder. The look on those little boys faces all the time was haunting.

Soo

Having said not to quote it think I will myself ;+)
http://www.artofeurope.com/larkin/lar2.htm