"You're a right weirdo if you read a book in the hairdressers"... and other bonkers opinions

[BookWormhole]

I'm going to the hairdressers shortly and I'll be taking my book to read while my colour's on, like I always do. I told my friend.

She said I'd be a right weirdo if I read my book while I was in there. She couldn't give a specific reason but was adamant it wasn't the done thing.

She's nuts.

My mother still clings to the belief that you shouldn't do washing on a Sunday. Apparently it "doesn't look good". My mum's an atheist.

My mother also believes that going out in the cold with wet hair will give me (almost instantaneous) pneumonia.

She's nuts.

Tell me about all the bonkers opinions that people in your life hold.

"only gay men and people who work in nightclubs watch porn"- my mother. Also the holocaust didn't happen.
I had an ex who thought women could only get pregnant if they had an orgasm.

If it's weird to read in the hairdressers why do they give you magazines?!

My FIL is convinced that if you walk around without slippers in the winter, you will instantly die of cold.
He actually followed me around the house once with a pair of slippers trying to convince me to put them on. The daft eejit.

Oh when dc were small I lived somewhere where I was repeatedly told:

Don't have your hair cut when pregnant, the baby will be hairy
All babies should have their head shaved aged 1 so their hair grows back nice and thick.
Don't ever sit on stone/concrete as you will damage your kidneys (I think it was 'get a chill' on your kidneys).
Don't drink milk when pregnant/bf, your should only drink kefir (like buttermilk)
Open window = draft which will make you ill

From my Mil : never trust a man who says "trust me" or has eyes close together. My mum: you'll catch pneumonia from wet/damp feet. Always dry them immediately.

Why are you mistrust full of people who dislike animals? They're smelly and spread disease even well cared for. Admittedly I still like them but I can understand why some people can't stand them.

To add to the list.
Doby cut nails after dark.
Don't buy shoes on a Saturday.
Always carry a corpse out of the house feet first.

@stepmum did you live in russia/post soviet state. I was raised with a strict never sit on concrete rule. Ditto the shaving hair makes it thicker.

Why can't people dislike animals?
The counting of the magpies.. a school friend used to be obsessed with the rhyme.

Walking on cold floors in bare feet will give you a cold on your kidneys. What is it with colds and kidneys?!

Don't put new shoes on the table or open an umbrella indoors - both are terribly unlucky, apparently...!

I got this gem: don't put a pair of shoes on the table where one shoe is black and one brown, or you'll die by hanging

From an aunt.

I got the usual about not going out with wet hair or I'd catch a chill. Having done this for years, I can honestly say I haven't.

racecardriver
yes! Central Asia

Never trust a man with whiskers - they have something to hide, according to my Dad.

My MIL got really upset when I told her I had done laundry on Christmas...apparently this means I'm washing someone out of my life?

When pregant
Can't store new pram in house it's bad luck. Everything else is fine though haha

Don't trust someone whose eyes rows meet in the middle

Wet hair / die of cold etc. Actually last week I bumped into so many ne I used to see on the bus. Apparently when she and her friend saw me I always had wet hair and thry always commented on how I'd catch my death!

No new shoes on the table

No green clothes at a wedding

@BookWormhole
My mil is the same with wet hair even indoors . We had to say with them for a while and if I let my ds hair to dry naturally after a bath she would get all anxious and quote her dm I said it's a old wives tale . I mean why would it matter if your in a warm house with heating on used to drive me bonkers but she was adamant it would make him illl.

“No green clothes at a wedding”

Yassssss the colour green is apparently bad luck- my poor gran when she saw my parents had a green bathroom and couches! When they finally got rid of them they updated the hall stairs and landing with a green carpet- she was tormented

My mum always said never trust a man with a beard. Then I realised most of the worst serial killers have beards!
Harold shipman
Peter sutcliffe
Charles Manson
Ariel Castro

To name but a few.... so I reckon she's right!!

If you whistle at night, the devil will come. FIL is Turkish and also says this one so it’s not just one from our family. Actually there’s an M.R James horror story called whistle and I’ll come to you so maybe that ties in too.

Race car driver I've been carrying my corpses all wrong

(My first attempt at bolding a name has been a lot of effort )

My granny wouldn’t wear green either. V odd!

But I would think it is weirder not to read in the hairdressers. What would you do? Just stare at your reflection?

I have never understood the animal thing. I'm not at all interested in animals, and I would definitely not say that I like them, I'm just not interested. I'm also not interested in clouds, stamp collecting and painting small figurines. But it's animals that make me untrustworthy.

I'm also not interested in clouds what kind of BEAST are you??????

Oh I missed the corpse one,

yes, always feet first. There is a reason that I cannot remember, probably to do with the devil!

Green clothes are only for the fairies so they get angry and will curse you if you wear them [:D] Heard that one many times

found it - if the corpse goes out head first, it might look back at one of the family, and take them with them!

someone once told me that if it rains on the day of the funeral then the deceased is happy.
how for love the of jesus would they know, did they open up the coffin to see them smilingwith the thumbs up