Open an umbrella indoors
It’s rained the last couple of days, which got me to thinking: What’s with this “it’s bad luck to open an umbrella indoors” bit? Eh? This doesn’t make a helluva lot of sense to me. So I consulted the Intarweb, and it told me:
The most common stems from the days when umbrellas were used mainly as protection against the sun. To open one indoors would be to insult the local sun god (especially Ra) and invite his wrath on everyone in your household.
Now I’m no expert on the origin of superstitions, but that seems pretty damn lame to me. Bottom 25th percentile, for sure. “Insult the local sun god?” We’re doing this because of a local sun god?
Well, from here on out, I’ve got zero qualms about the umbrella indoors thing. And it looks like I’m only hopping on the caboose of this train.
September 13th, 2006 at 10:54 am
this should be under my mundane life..not interesting stuff tom…
and here i am the first to comment..i think that means my life is too mundane.
September 13th, 2006 at 12:53 pm
Rock on Tom.
By the way, I love he new headline font. The blog looks so much more mature now.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
I have to admit that up until NOW I was superstitious about opening an umbrella inside but I’ve decided to get over that neuroses. Ever heard the one about leaving a hat on a bed? I guess that is bad luck, too…whatever.