As a child, when sitting in the back of the car with my sister, she told me that whenever she saw a PO van she had to punch me, otherwise it was unlucky. Now I think about it, not sure that was a real superstition.
I also try not to drive under ladders, it's very unlucky for the person at the top of it ;)
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On the subject of green cars, my brother in law has only ever had three crashes. The first two were in green cars, and he vowed never to have one again The third was in a white car, but after it'd been crashed, guess what colour it turned out to be originally?
And on the subject of whether crashing was luck or bad driving, the third crash was caused by going round a corner to find a fallen tree across the road on the other side of it.
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Even the tree was green!!
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My own experience is that white cars are definitely unlucky.
They tend to contain stern men in blue uniforms who, for some strange reason, use blue flashing lights to flag me down and then ask me in a sarcastic tone if i am aware of the speed limit is. Odd people.
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lol, very good Bradgate. And then they send you to see a man in a bif curly wig, it's just not normal, is it?
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i dislike red, blue, yellow, brown, pink and black, green. as the said men in white cars ala blue flashing lights, like to play "motorway snooker"
they plainly told me this when pulled up in my green laguna.
doin 100.1
svinehunds !
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i dislike red, blue, yellow, brown, pink and black, green. as the said men in white cars ala blue flashing lights, like to play "motorway snooker" they plainly told me this when pulled up in my green laguna. doin 100.1 svinehunds !
They definitely didn't pull you due to you exceeding the speed limit by 30 mph, and doing a speed which theoretically gets you an automatic disqualification?
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no way. they had just booked a red civic.
well maybe, it did have a little something to do with speeding.
i guess.
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i dislike red, blue, yellow, brown, pink and black, green. as the said men in white cars ala blue flashing lights, like to play "motorway snooker" they plainly told me this when pulled up in my green laguna. doin 100.1 svinehunds !
I was hoping you were going to tell us you were pulled for driving the sunken Fiesta, complete with seaweed!
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This snooker business is well known, and is one of the reasons why I drive a silver car. Ha! :-)
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Anyone else remember the TV commentator 30 years ago who said;
" For those of you with black and white televisions, the blue ball is behind the pink"?
Matt 35.
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I was brought up to touch the peak of my cap, or the brim of my hat.
Now I can usually only touch my forehead.
No superstition, no benefit expected.
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I am told by my 14 year old that green cars are ok now. However, he maintains that he has the right to enforce punches, akin to Bazzabear's experiences, towards his younger brother, upon sight of a yellow car, a post office van, and various other means of transport. The punches range in bruality and amount according to which vehicle they have spotted.
I don;t know if this is a new phenomena, or just the product of my own child's schoolmates.
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I am told by my 14 year old that green cars are ok now. However, he maintains that he has the right to enforce punches, akin to Bazzabear's experiences, towards his younger brother, upon sight of a yellow car, a post office van, and various other means of transport. The punches range in bruality and amount according to which vehicle they have spotted. I don;t know if this is a new phenomena, or just the product of my own child's schoolmates.
Cheers HF, glad to know I'm not the only person to be regularly beaten by an older sibling, for no apparent reason.
I still automatically cringe when I see a PO van... ;)
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