AIBU to still do this as an adult? (light hearted)

[Daleksatemyshed]

As a child if I had a soft boiled egg my DF told me to break the bottom of the shell when I'd finished it because otherwise "witches used the shell to row out to sea and wreck ships"! Obviously he wasn't being serious but AIBU that now decades later I STILL break the bottom every time? Am I the only one who does childish things as an adult?

I have never heard of this before but it makes a lot of sense.

Nice to know the next generation will be keeping the eggs safe too

Another vote for turn it over & draw a face on it.

I grew up doing the egg thing too. No seafaring connections and Norfolk based, so not a regional or occupational thing obviously.

Guess it must be just one of the less well known superstitions.

Okay, here's a question. Black cat crosses your path...good luck or bad luck? Have heard both and v confused!

@NoCherryNoDeal

Y'all are cray cray

Cray cray?

I always crush up egg shells, so witches can’t go to sea. My children do it too.

Someone i follow on YouTube says cray cray. No idea what it means either

@ElGuardiandenoche are you my Grandma?, she is the only person I know that uses yhe word marmalizing.

Okay, here's a question. Black cat crosses your path...good luck or bad luck? Have heard both and v confused!
I have a black cat so can tell you on good authority a black cat crossing your path is trying to trip you up, so can be good luck or bad luck depending on if it succeeds.

@MasterBeth Hee heeeee!

I knew that you weren’t meant to leave empty eggshells lying around (because, you know, witches) but not about the smashing the bottom thing! I’ll have to do that from now on. Can’t be too careful....!

[quote Bunnybigears]@ElGuardiandenoche are you my Grandma?, she is the only person I know that uses yhe word marmalizing.[/quote]
Well I’m not a Granma yet as my kids aren’t old enough but I’m in my 50s so I’m old enough to be.

My uncle taught us to do it and would egg us on (pun intended) to marmalize the eggs.

@YewandOak

Someone i follow on YouTube says cray cray. No idea what it means either

Crazy 😜

i turn the empty egg upside down after i have eaten it, so it looks like new!

I played shadowlands (you can only step on shadows) all the way home after dropping my DD’s off at school and preschool.

I normally play it with them as we walk to or from school. It’s fun.

This is a Manx one. So there's a special.place on the Isle of Man on a main road called The Fairy Bridge and everyone says hello to the little people while driving or cycling past. I was brought up doing it, and it's second nature.

I'm currently living Across (England!) and sometimes I'll be tootling along in a car or even in a taxi, and something out of the corner of my eye - trees, a white wall, a river - will jog my subconscious and I blurt out "Hello Fairies!" It really startled people.

My older brother says he does it, too, which can get a bit awkward when he's driving for work.

@Daleksatemyshed

Blankets are always good friends, you know where you stand with a blanket

I'm bereft! I never had a special blanket when I was growing up! 😥

I really love blankets

Never too old for a blanket @Happynow001, still time to get one . @ManxRadioHurtsMyHead please tell me your DB is a bus driver, I love
the idea of him greeting the fairies in front of a bus load of people!

I still crush my egg shells for the same reason OP. Never thought anything of it until I was telling my DD to do it so the witches didn't use them as boats and caught DH giving me a WTF look!

@Daleksatemyshed

Never too old for a blanket *@Happynow001, still time to get one . @ManxRadioHurtsMyHead* please tell me your DB is a bus driver, I love the idea of him greeting the fairies in front of a bus load of people!

Thank you! I've been reading about weighted blankets (not quite the same thing, I know) and am considering buying one of those later in the year. 🌹

My DF taught me the egg shell thing although I don't do it any longer but I am not sure why?

I always say hello to magpies (and other birds!)! And the salt over the shoulder!

My DGM wouldn't allow shoes on the table. And when DS was born we had so many 50 pence pieces for good luck!

It’s from a poem by Elizabeth Fleming.

“Oh, never leave your egg-shells unbroken in the cup;
Think of us poor sailor-men and always smash them up,
For witches come and find them and sail away to sea,
And make a lot of misery for mariners like me.”

@TheOnceAndFutureQueen

I still crush my egg shells for the same reason OP. Never thought anything of it until I was telling my DD to do it so the witches didn't use them as boats and caught DH giving me a WTF look!

Yep! Exact same thing happened to me.

@nemosorel thank you for this. So we're not cray cray, we're influenced by poetry !