Rather than take Paul Brook's thread off topic, I thought I'd start this one.
Tomo wrote:daleshrimpton wrote:it may even be the chinese, who have a fondness for the number 9.
Don't you mean the number eight?
Indeed, it is eight but nine will do. But we don't like the number four; when I was house hunting a few years ago, I instructed all estate agents not to bother telling me about new houses on the market if they had a four in the door number. I wouldn't even look at them. Got some weird looks, but we all have our thing. After all, westerners don't like the number thirteen. For example, my father-in-law won't have thirteen people around the dinner table.
What superstitions do you lot have?
Apart from the number four thing, I'm not that superstitious. And I know deep down that my thing for four is completely irrational but it's how I was brought up and it was drummed into me as a youngster. But I'll happily walk under a ladder or break a mirror without a worry that Lady Luck has forsaken me.