October 10, 2025 • 31 mins
It's Flashback Friday, we are going back to Episode 12 Dysfunctional Superstitions and Idiosyncrasies. Ever follow a rule you can’t explain—like never putting a hat on the bed or refusing to go straight home after a funeral—and feel a jolt if someone breaks it? We revisit the strange superstitions and sticky family quirks that still tug at our choices, especially in spooky season, and trace how they became part of our daily scripts.
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DJ NICK (00:07):
Welcome to a Flashback Friday edition of the
Dysfunction Junkies podcast.
We may not have seen it all,but we've seen enough.
And now here are your hosts,Christy and Carrie.
KERRY (00:21):
Hello, junkies.
I'm Kerry.
CHRISY (00:23):
And I'm Chrissy.
KERRY (00:24):
So it's Flashback Friday today.
Love Friday.
Flashback Friday especially.
Exactly.
So since we're in the month ofOctober and we got Halloween
coming up, so we thought itwould be best to flash back to
episode 12 when we talked aboutdysfunctional superstitions and
idiosyncrasies.
Yes.
(00:45):
So Chrissy, you know, we talkedabout last episode.
We talked about phobias.
And when we were preparing forthis flashback episode, I found
a list of some differentsuperstitions and stuff that I
thought, you know, we didn'ttalk about them on the original
episode, but I thought I wouldscroll through and name some of
these.
CHRISY (01:03):
Right.
KERRY (01:03):
So some of them were common, like, you know, you
don't want to uh break a mirroror else you get seven years of
bad luck, or you don't want towalk under a ladder.
But then there were these otherones that I found kind of
interesting.
So one of them was saying thatyou want to avoid sleeping with
mirr facing the bed because it'sbelieved to drain energy or
invite spirits during sleep.
(01:24):
I I can get it.
CHRISY (01:26):
All of a sudden you take a glance at mirror and you're
like, where did the fat bitchcome from?
Oh shoot, it's me! That'sterrible.
The mirror thing and everybodyin the 70s with their mirrors.
I mean, yeah, they wereinviting something.
No, they were.
KERRY (01:46):
Yeah.
Objects in mirror appear closerthan they are.
Yeah.
Bigger than they are.
Bigger.
Anyways, there was other thingson here like, oh, let's see.
Breaking eggshells to preventwitches.
What the heck goes up withthat?
How are you supposed to open anegg without breaking it?
CHRISY (02:05):
Like, I don't know.
I thought that one was weird.
That was very weird.
KERRY (02:08):
Yeah.
And then there was this one.
Dreaming of fish meanspregnancy.
Many people believe thatdreaming of fish signals that
someone is close to expecting ababy.
CHRISY (02:17):
What within your family unit or a close friend, or just
it earth-wide.
I don't know.
Jeez on me.
KERRY (02:30):
Now, this is a cute one, and I think we've all done this.
Seeing a shooting star andgranting a wish.
So, you know, we see a shootingstar.
Oh, we make a wish, you saw ashooting star.
That was that was kind of like,oh, that's a good one.
CHRISY (02:41):
So my wish is that it's gonna land in the ocean.
I ain't got time to make nofrou fru happy wish, like uh,
you know.
I what what?
You know, I'm sitting thereseeing that fly by.
I'm like, oh man, wonder wherethat's gonna be.
KERRY (02:59):
All right.
So this one's kind of similarto one we did talk about in our
episode.
This was uh avoid leaving shoesupside down.
Uh in some cultures, leavingshoes upside down is thought to
bring bad luck or invite evilspirits.
Is that kind of along the linesof your hat on the bed?
CHRISY (03:14):
I don't know if it is or not, but I've got a big problem
because kids choose every whichway, everywhere.
Even me, probably.
KERRY (03:23):
Okay.
I don't know.
CHRISY (03:24):
Kick those shoes off.
KERRY (03:25):
I didn't even know that was a thing.
I didn't either.
CHRISY (03:27):
Oh God.
KERRY (03:28):
Now you got one more thing to worry about.
CHRISY (03:29):
This is insane.
KERRY (03:30):
So now you're gonna be going through the house, making
sure there's no hats on the bedand the shoes are all upright.
CHRISY (03:34):
The the hat thing really it affects me all the time.
And I do have to say that I dosecretly, if we're somewhere, I
will people watch a little bit,as we all do.
Uh-huh.
And sometimes I knew I do makea mental note that uh if so and
so is leaving the gathering,yeah, I'm like, wait a minute.
That's not the door they came.
They're leaving for anotherdoor.
Somebody needs to let me knowif they make it home.
(03:57):
Just curious.
KERRY (03:59):
If I knew how to get out of your house, I would purposely
go out another door when Ileave now, but your house is too
complicated to get out of.
It is a compound.
CHRISY (04:07):
I do live in a compound, yes.
So uh and actually, I don't, itdoesn't really like affect me
like I'm like, oh my god, I haveto yell at you to tell you to
notice it.
But I just notice it, which Ifind offensive that I even have
to be bothered with thisthought.
It's it's unfortunate.
KERRY (04:23):
So it's kind of interesting going through this
list and have a kind of I wishwe would have had it then.
We might have to do anotherwhole episode on this, maybe
another time, about thesedifferent superstitions and
stuff.
Yeah, absolutely.
But for now, go and enjoy ourflashback Friday episode of
Dysfunctional Superstitions.
This was our episode 12.
So enjoy.
Enjoy everybody.
(04:44):
Hello, junkies.
Welcome back.
I'm Carrie.
CHRISY (04:48):
And I'm Chrissy.
Oh, Chrissy.
KERRY (04:51):
We had a pretty interesting episode last week.
We were diving down the rabbithole of our aging parents.
How are you feeling?
That's a long pause.
CHRISY (05:01):
Yeah, I'm trying to think how I'm feeling about
that.
You know, it it it feels uhgood to talk about it.
Yes.
And I think it is good to talkabout it, especially somebody
who totally uh gets it.
Yes, but it also is a littledrainy, it is very draining.
We need to pick me up on thistopic.
Because really, where does allof our dysfunction stem from?
(05:22):
And we're not trying to pointfingers, nope, nope, no
judgment, no blame.
No, but uh it kind of doesstart with the mom and dad a
little bit.
Yeah, and then their mom anddad.
It's an endless cycle,everyone.
KERRY (05:34):
It is, it is and that's what worries me is like, okay,
that means I'm the cycle that'snext.
So am I becoming like myparents?
CHRISY (05:42):
You gotta really fight not to I know that there, I mean
come on, we we can't be liarsto ourselves and say that
sometimes we don't catch that.
Oh my god, that's sort of likewhat my mom or my dad would do.
Why am I being this way?
Exactly.
But I guess recognizing it isthe first step that's true to
bettering it.
KERRY (06:01):
That's true.
I hope.
Yeah, that's very true.
That's very true.
What were some of the sayingsthat your mom or dad would say
that like you might catchyourself saying now, or that you
were like, oh, I'm never gonnause that one as an adult.
CHRISY (06:12):
Well, there's quite a few things my father used to
say, but I can't repeat that.
KERRY (06:17):
No.
My mom used to always say, It'sgonna get worse before it gets
better.
Well, yeah, oh yeah.
CHRISY (06:22):
And I I I that one well, and I told you my whole
philosophy was this is gonna bebetter.
Right, right.
Worse and worse and worse.
But yeah, my mom, I know, Iquiet.
She made me do crazy things,but uh not really any sayings.
Now, uh my my husband's uh mom,a lovely lady, he always
reminds me of things that sheused to say.
And was well, one was you needto be the better person.
(06:45):
So when you're like, well, youknow, somebody's doing this to
me, so I'm gonna do this.
And my husband will always comeat me and go, Chrissy, you
gotta be the better person.
Oh I and I'm like, wait aminute.
Do you remember who youmarried, Nick?
Well, for yeah, there's one.
And two, who the hell told thislie?
And again, I think it'ssomebody who probably was not
(07:08):
the person getting screwed over.
True.
It was somebody saying, I'mdoing this horrible thing to
you, but you're gonna be thebetter person, right?
Be the better person.
Who's judging this?
Yeah, really.
And the other one that myhusband told me recently that I
freaked out about because I'mlike another stupid rule.
Where did this come from?
(07:28):
Two wrongs don't make a right.
First of all, this itencompasses two things I hate
math and bullshit.
Two wrongs, who says two wrongsdon't make a right?
Maybe if I take two wrongturns, I might still get right
where I need to be.
Well, this is true.
(07:49):
That you make that woman on theGPS that's always annoying the
hell out of me.
KERRY (07:54):
We call her MapLissa.
CHRISY (07:55):
Oh my god.
One time I was in a car testdriving a car with a guy, and
the the cell, the sales guy wasin the back, and that thing was
on.
And I said, This is sohorrible, and I'm gonna offend
women.
I don't know, I might offendmen, I'm gonna offend everybody
right now.
But I used I told him, I said,you know, I can see why you guys
block us women out.
I say, because listening tothis woman give me directions is
(08:18):
annoying the hell out of me.
I'm like, can you change up thevoice uh maybe uh you know, to
an accent, or maybe a little kidcould give me directions.
I would love a little kid totell me where to go.
Go down this road for two moremiles.
Are you sure two more miles?
How many Tonka trunks is it uhbefore I get to my destination?
KERRY (08:42):
That's like the Alexa's, how you can change the voices on
those.
We have a couple Alexas aroundour house and in our barn and
stuff.
One of them is like anAustralian accent guy, and I
love it.
It's the same thing you'resaying, but then we have some of
them that are the woman'svoice.
CHRISY (08:57):
Well, it could be a woman or but I mean she's very
uh authoritarian.
Is that the word?
I mean, and what's funny is theAlexa we have in our house.
Yeah, it it likes everybody butme.
Oh, that's my husband.
He doesn't listen to that.
It will not.
I'll tell it, set a timer, youknow, play this song.
Uh-huh.
It it crickets, dead silence.
And then my daughter or myhusband will talk to her right
(09:21):
away.
Yeah.
Okay, setting a timer.
KERRY (09:24):
Mine will say, good morning, Carrie, in the male
sexy voice, and then it won'ttalk to my husband.
He'll be like, Good morning,Carrie.
Like so annoyed by it becausethe Alexis said good morning.
CHRISY (09:36):
Well, mine says good morning when I tell it, or good
afternoon, or good evening,whenever I'm asking it to do
something.
If it does listen to mycommand, uh-huh, it doesn't
acknowledge me at all.
It always says my daughter'sname.
Oh.
It says her name.
Oh, that's and I just get this,I scrunch my face up and snirk
(09:57):
a little to myself, but I'm justlike, look, just do what I
want.
I don't care what you want tocall me today.
Just do it.
Put the timer on, please, so Iknow what time to take this
stupid dinner out.
KERRY (10:09):
Oh my.
You know, one of the things uhgrowing up, we had there was a
girl, you might know.
Were you ever a Girl Scout?
As soon as I said that, Iwanted to suck the question back
in.
Wow, you really went there andyou asked me.
I regretted it as soon as itwas gonna be.
(10:32):
I thought maybe your mom madeyou or something.
Come on.
CHRISY (10:36):
Mom, mom would have told me to do it.
Does it require her to beinvolved?
Not happening.
But you do it, Chrissy.
And I'll show up every once ina while.
Yeah, no, no Girl Scouts here,no brownie.
KERRY (10:49):
No, no.
Okay, well, we had a Girl Scoutcamp not far from where growing
up where I lived, but now it'sactually like literally a mile
around the corner from my housenow.
And oh gosh, where was I evengoing with the Girl Scout camp?
Oh, okay, Crazy Kate.
So, anyways, right before yougot to the entrance of the Girl
Scout camp, and this was likeway out in the country.
So there was this house, thisfarmhouse, and it had this lady
(11:11):
in her, everyone knew her asCrazy Kate.
I don't know if Kate was herfirst name.
I don't know, but that was thelegend of Crazy Kate.
And this lady, like, everyonetalked about her because of all
like the weird things that shedid.
Well, when we moved back toOhio and we got our farm, I
quickly started realizing, like,oh my god, I'm turning into
(11:32):
Crazy Kate.
Because I found myself doingsome of the things that we would
see Crazy Kate do.
What was she doing?
And now it made sense to me.
One of the things that shewould do is be like in the
middle of the field, la la la lala, liking around at the sky
and like, you know, whatever.
And so, well, when we moved toour farm, we have barn swallows,
(11:52):
just a little bird.
Oh, you're looking at me like aminute, that sounds like
something dirty.
CHRISY (11:58):
No.
And it it sounds like a hugeundertaking too.
KERRY (12:03):
Okay.
Barn swallows are a littlebird.
Okay.
A living bird.
Yeah, it's a living bird, andthey catch like little bugs.
And I love these little birds.
Like I they just fascinate me.
So if we're mowing the grass,that like stirs up all the bugs.
So they get real active andthey'll start swarming.
I'll be mowing the grass andI'll like realize I'm looking at
the birds swarming, and mylines are no longer straight.
CHRISY (12:26):
Oh boy.
So good thing you're out in thecountry.
Yeah, you get uh somebody willtotally stick at you if you did
that in our neighborhood.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
KERRY (12:37):
Well, needless to say, Jim will often have to come and
remote what I did because thelines weren't straight.
I realized one day when I wasout there and I was like, look
at the birds.
Like, I know nobody else cansee the little birds swooping
around, but I'm out there mowingin this crazy pattern.
So I'm like, oh, maybe CrazyKate was looking at the little
birds.
Might be.
(12:57):
And then we put a flagpole up,and it's kind of in the middle
of this big field that's rightnext to our house.
When the concrete was curing,we wanted to, you know, put our
initials and stuff in it.
Well, we poured the concretelike the night before.
Six in the morning, I go out todo chores and I thought, oh,
let me go check the concrete.
Well, it was almost alreadyhardened up.
So here I am, six in themorning, carving our initials in
(13:23):
the middle, like, but no onecould see that because the pole
wasn't in the ground.
So you just see this lady atsix in the morning in the middle
of this field digging atsomething or whatever.
And I'm like, who knows?
I'm sure it looked crazy to allthe people on 224 driving by
our farm.
So again, my thought was, ohyeah, crazy Kate.
Crazy Kate was probably diggingin the grass, doing something,
(13:45):
you know.
And so, but you didn't know thewhole story, you know.
CHRISY (13:49):
And so Well, when you're a kid too.
Exactly.
The storytelling, right, right.
You just want to totally makeit fascinating.
Right, right.
So you do like sort of uhamplify it, create these
fantastic scenarios.
KERRY (14:02):
The other thing I found myself doing was we had a little
goat and a little sheepwalking.
Uh we have six, seven acres,and so I had them out and I was
walking around the property, andall these little animals, like
I was like the Pied Piper, andall these little animals were
following me.
And so again, I was like, Thisis Crazy Kate.
You know, it's kind of funny.
I catch myself doing things,and uh, and then I'll ask the
same thing, like, oh, what am Idoing?
(14:23):
That was uh my parents, but thecrazy Kate thing always gets me
when I'm at my house and I'mdoing something silly outside or
prospectively silly, I'll belike, Oh yeah, I'm crazy Kate.
I'm the new Crazy Kate, and I'monly a mile from the original
Crazy Kate.
Crazy Kate 2.0.
CHRISY (14:39):
Well yeah, so when you were talking about this lady uh
living sort of like that uhright away, I was thinking
sounds a little bit like theBlair Witch.
KERRY (14:50):
I've only seen snippets of it because I don't like that
movie.
I know.
Oh my gosh.
You know how I feel about it.
Yeah, I know.
CHRISY (14:58):
Oh well, we'll talk about that another time.
KERRY (15:00):
What were some of the things that your your moms and
dad did growing up that catchyou?
CHRISY (15:06):
Well, superstitions are a crazy thing, and I think at
some point everybody's a victimto that.
Yeah.
My mom has some that is verycrazy, I guess, uh uh to say the
least.
Although maybe some people alsohave these.
So one of them is that's alwaysa problem, and sometimes it it
affects everybody else too, isuh according to my mother, okay,
(15:29):
you cannot exit the door ofsomeone's house that you didn't
come through when you camethere.
Oh.
So you must exit the same dooryou entered.
Okay.
So if you're at someone's houseand all of a sudden that door
is no longer available, or it'smore convenient for them to let
you out a different way, uh-huh.
My mom is in full panic.
(15:49):
Or if you try to exitsomebody's house, she remembers.
Oh she categorized the roles.
She well, she knows where youcame in.
KERRY (15:59):
Oh and how does she like hurry up and escort you to the
right door?
CHRISY (16:03):
She's like, no, no, we need to go out that you need to
go out that door.
I don't know what's gonnahappen.
Wow if you it but there's athere's a side note foot there.
There's a caveat.
If it's your house, okay, youcan come and go any other door
you want.
You could jump out the window,jump off the roof, do whatever
you want.
But if you're visiting, that'sthe way.
KERRY (16:22):
So if I came to your house and I went in the front
door, yeah, and then say we wentoutside to your backyard and I
was gonna leave, I couldn't justgo out the gate to the car.
I'd have to go back in throughthe house and back through the
front door.
CHRISY (16:35):
If my mother was hosting you, yes, she would shuffle
you.
I mean, I would tell you ifshe's there, I mean she's here
now.
We could try it after when yougo to leave.
But she didn't see what door Icame in.
Well, she knew we told you guysto come through the other door
because where she's at, we don'twant the cold air to hit her.
Right, right, right.
Okay.
Delicate little sweetheart thatshe's and another one was you
(16:58):
can't go home after a funeral.
Don't go straight home.
Where are you supposed to go?
Something you you know, thesaying you don't have you don't
have to go home, but you can'tstay here.
Well, you you can't go home,but you can go wherever the hell
else you want.
That's not your home.
So after a funeral, what wouldyou have to go do?
Uh uh all of us, becausegenerally you're not going to a
(17:19):
funeral by yourself.
Yeah.
Chances are if you're byyourself, you're gonna be like,
look, I'm just gonna do whateverthat I gotta get home.
I can't be doing this.
DM any super citizens.
Yeah, right.
You hope.
But so you're in a group ofpeople, you're all in the same
car, you you know, you're goinghome.
Oh, no, no, no, we gotta gohere.
I mean, it was just, andeverybody participated in this.
(17:40):
We would normally stop at a gasstation, okay, and maul around
in funeral clothes, like thenight of the living dead in
there.
Because we just came from.
KERRY (17:52):
So if you pulled into the gas station on the way home, if
your dad went into the store,no, no, you had all had to drop
it.
Yeah, everybody had tophysically cross another
threshold.
Yes.
CHRISY (18:06):
And I'm guessing you had to drop off any sort of dead
spirits that you had attached toyou.
So I would tell everybody nowthat this is a warning.
When you go to the gas station,there's probably a bunch of
dropped off dead spirits justroaming the aisles, getting gas,
(18:26):
getting a slurpee, mayberobbing the joint.
KERRY (18:29):
But you know, but if you stopped and got gas and you all
got out of the car but didn't gointo the store, would that
still count?
Like, say you just got out ofthe car and you know, like had a
cigarette break or whatever.
No, you had to physically gointo another building.
Yeah, you had to cross anotherthreshold.
And make sure you exit thatdoor.
CHRISY (18:47):
The same way you would if there's two exits, don't you
dare.
KERRY (18:50):
So the in and out roll didn't make just home.
It was everywhere.
Yeah.
Well, you mean, oh, well, youmean you could go to like JC
Penny's or something?
Yeah, if I went into the eastentrance at JCPenney's, did I
have to leave the east entranceor could I go through the north
entrance up?
CHRISY (19:05):
Yeah, probably, because like over there.
Well unless you're gettingpicked up.
Unless you get picked up.
KERRY (19:10):
Okay, there's caveat.
CHRISY (19:11):
Well, see, now this isn't a residence now.
KERRY (19:13):
That's why I'm asking.
Is it commercial or residence?
CHRISY (19:16):
It was residence.
KERRY (19:17):
It was only okay.
Yeah, yeah.
Retail didn't count.
Retail didn't.
CHRISY (19:21):
Retail.
KERRY (19:22):
We gotta get the rules right.
I know.
CHRISY (19:24):
And you know what's really terrifying is that you're
sitting here asking mequestions I've never been asked,
and yet I know the answers.
And there is nothing writtenanywhere.
You don't get a booklet onthis, you just get it ingrained
in yourself, your soul.
And it's like, what?
Why?
So then my mom added anotherfootnote years later.
(19:46):
Uh-oh.
Because then she's like, Well,you can't even go home after you
go to the cemetery.
And for some reason, my familyloved to go to the cemetery and
stare at stones with people'snames on it.
And let's stop off at thecemetery, stop at so-and-so's
grave.
And my mom was like, Well, wecan't go home.
And I was like, Stop.
KERRY (20:01):
Oh, so even if it wasn't from a funeral, so it wasn't
like funeral cemetery.
You're talking like, hey, we'rejust gonna go to the cemetery
and pay our respects.
Then that all rule alsoapplied.
It started to.
Oh, okay.
CHRISY (20:12):
It didn't always seem to be that way.
But then something happened.
I don't know if like that was aJane rule 2.0.
Yeah.
And it's like, wait a minute.
I don't remember this being therule.
And guess what?
No, we're not doing this.
Guess what?
I just won't go to thecemetery.
I'm what it, you know.
I understand people get andthey get they get some, you
know, satisfaction.
(20:33):
And some agree, you know,that's the way they can relate,
and that's fine.
Uh absolutely.
But yeah, with my mom, you'rejust gonna learn to not go
places anymore because theserules might pop up.
Deal with it.
Another thing was you couldn'thave live fish in the house.
What?
I mean, dead fish game on.
Well, yeah, we talked aboutthat.
Yeah.
Night of the seven fishes.
(20:53):
More fish the merrier, as longas they're dead.
But if you have fish as a pet,you never had a pet fish.
No, one time my sister took melong time ago.
Used to be a store a long timeago called GC Murphy's.
And real I mean, we're talking.
I don't even know if that onecracked the 80s as far as its
existence.
It was it's an old store.
(21:14):
They had a little pet section,you know.
I think my sister got me a pinkand a blue goldfish.
Oh.
And I was so excited.
Oh, these lovely fish, becausethey kind of look like toys.
Yeah.
And brought them home, and mymom came home and saw a little
fish bowl with these swimmingfish in them.
Oh my gosh.
Freaked out.
No, freaked, get those out ofthe house right now.
(21:37):
Made my sister take them back.
I don't know if she even madeit back.
She might have dumped them downthe toilet.
I don't know what happened tohim.
So horrible.
But my mother would not allowhim in the house.
I I don't it's a bad luck.
It's bad luck.
KERRY (21:47):
So it wasn't that she didn't want pet fish, it was
just bec you cannot have fish inthe house.
Right.
Oh my gosh.
CHRISY (21:53):
But isn't fish a a symbol of the original
fisherman, Jesus Our Lord?
KERRY (21:59):
Yeah, they do the fish symbol, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
CHRISY (22:02):
And he was a fisherman, but but he obviously wasn't
taking live fish home.
KERRY (22:05):
He didn't have a pet fish.
No.
CHRISY (22:07):
He was doing it for fish.
No beta fish for him.
No.
So whenever I go, and it'sstill to this day, Carrie, if I
go to somebody's house, and theyhave pet fish.
And they have fish, I get alittle sweaty.
PTSD.
Because I'm like, oh my God,how's your luck going here?
Everything going good, youguys?
Everybody, nobody's gottenhurt, dead, anything now?
(22:29):
Okay.
Wow.
Oh my god.
Yeah, I gotta get out of herethough, because I just it's a
ticking time bomb here, people.
I don't know.
KERRY (22:37):
Good thing I didn't have any fish in my house when you
started coming out.
CHRISY (22:40):
Oh, and you know what's funny is I think both of my
sisters, uh, especially my onesister, had like aquariums all
over her house.
Oh and they and they'rebeautiful.
Yeah, I do like really likethem.
They are lovely to watch, and Iknow they're a little bit to
maintain, I'm guessing.
Because you have to keep themclean.
And yeah, I mean they'rerelaxing.
(23:00):
My s my son, he when he we goanywhere and they have uh he's
like uh fascinated.
Of course you are, they're funto watch, but now okay.
KERRY (23:08):
So here's another going back to like the question we had
on the the gas station there.
If you go to a retailestablishment that has an
aquarium, like if you went toBass Pro Shop where they have
all the would your mom beequally freaked out, or it was
only residential that youcouldn't have pet fish?
Oh yeah, no, just res again,residential.
It's just residential that'saffected.
It's a residential rule.
CHRISY (23:28):
Retail is seems to be exempt from all of these rules,
thank goodness.
Because it'd be like, Well, Ican't go here, I can't go there,
I can't go here, I can't gohere.
Oh my god.
I unfortunately am a victimbecause I do watch a lot of
movies of a superstition that myhusband gets very mad at me
because I freak out if I seethis happen here.
And if I accidentally do it, Ifreak out all myself.
(23:49):
What did you do?
Don't ever have a hat on a bed.
KERRY (23:54):
Oh yeah.
That's a big cowboy thing.
Is it a cowboy thing?
CHRISY (23:58):
It is a big cowboy thing.
Well, it makes sense becausethe movie that I learned that
from, yeah, Drugstore Cowboy.
Oh, I don't know it.
It's about people who robdrugstores.
Oh, I think it's actual basedon a true story.
They rob drug, they're drugaddicts.
Okay.
So they're drugstore cowboys.
Oh.
And Matt Dillon, and somebodymy age, yum.
Gotta love Matt Dillon.
(24:19):
If Matt Dillon tells me don'tput a hat on a bed, no way,
dude.
I will not put a hat on a bed.
Thank you, Matt Dillon.
My husband will sometimes getvery mad at me because I will
see one of his ball caps on thebed.
Or even on the foot of the likeon the railing.
Okay.
Oh, it can't even hang on therailing.
No, it's not.
(24:40):
Well, it technically itprobably could because it's not
on the bed, but sort of it kindof is on the bed.
But I will grab that thing andwhip it.
I was like, outta here,goodbye.
No hats anywhere near this bed.
Damn you.
KERRY (24:51):
It's so funny that you say that.
You must not be a Yellowstonefan then.
CHRISY (24:55):
I watched some of it, and uh I it's a good show.
Okay.
Yeah, I did watch some of it.
KERRY (25:01):
There was uh not too long ago an episode on Yellowstone
in the final season-ish here,and one of the characters passes
away, and when they went to hisbunk in the bunkhouse to clean
things out, his hat was on thebed.
Oh no.
Yeah, and the one character waslike, Isn't wait, isn't that
(25:22):
bad luck?
And the other character waslike, Well, it doesn't matter
now because the guy's becausethe guy's dead.
Yeah, oh but um that wasinteresting that you bring that
one up because that was just onthe yellow slide too long ago.
CHRISY (25:33):
Yeah, well, death was related to the incident in the
drugstore cowboy, too, that theykind of connected because there
was a disbeliever in theirgroup, uh, somebody they had
picked up that was part of theirlittle posse.
Oh and uh they the characterwas uh just sort of a pain in
the butt through the wholething.
And uh just to prove everybodywrong, uh-huh, she tossed her
hat on the bed and said, This isstupid.
(25:54):
You people are stupid.
Why do you believe this isstupid stuff?
And then she died.
She they found her dead.
Again, that's another reason toreinforce me.
Oh my god, don't put the hat onthe bed, don't put the hat on
the bed.
Well, I do have anysuperstitions.
KERRY (26:10):
There wasn't necessarily superstitions, but there was
definitely idi idiosyncrasies.
Let's call them idiosyncrasies,might be the better word.
My dad was like so addicted tosalt.
He salted everything.
Anything he would just salt,like, and he was one of those,
he wouldn't even taste his food,he would just automatically
(26:31):
start pounding the salt on it.
So it didn't matter, did it eatit or not?
Exactly.
Salt.
He just salt, salt, you know.
Which is why I think a lot oftimes, like I don't cook with a
lot of salt.
Like I might put a little tinybit in, but then I leave it for
whoever's eating to taste it,because if he made anything, it
was so salty.
So, right.
This is how you know you mayhave a salt addiction.
(26:54):
So my dad was in the hospitalbecause of some heart issue.
Hmm, I wonder why.
Too much salt.
So anyway, they put him on ano-salt diet.
So no sodium for him as he's inthe hospital.
And he was there for like, Idon't know, a couple days or
whatever.
And he was going through somuch salt addiction and he wore
contacts.
(27:14):
Told my mom, well, when youcome and visit me, I I need
saline solution for my contacts.
Oh, my mom brings in, you know,a bottle of saline solution.
He opens it up and he startsputting it on his food.
Oh my god.
He was using the salinesolution to get salt on his food
because they put him on a nosehot.
Oh my god.
(27:34):
It was bad.
It was to this day.
I remember being in thehospital going, ah, I don't I
don't think you're supposed tobe doing that.
That kind of defeats the nose.
And ew, you're putting salt orsaline solution on your lettuce.
Oh my god.
CHRISY (27:53):
Anybody here wear contact lenses?
Do not go into room 256.
256, don't enter with yoursaline solution.
Wow, that is that's that isn'ta bad.
KERRY (28:06):
My brother-in-law and I were just recently talking about
this the other day while wewere having lunch with my mom.
Um, because I think he wassalting something, and I'm like,
oh, I can't even.
And we we were talking thisreminisced and brought this
subject up.
So, anyways, he goes, I'llnever forget your dad would go
get pizza, pepperoni pizza, fullof pepperoni.
And the first thing he would dois come home and he'd salt it.
(28:26):
And it's like, pepperoni, comeon, like there's how much salt
in that, you know?
But he would be adding the saltto it.
So I looked at my mom, I'mlike, Mom, do you remember dad
doing these things?
She goes, and she goes, Whoa,what's crazier is that I married
him.
Well, she might have a pointthere.
CHRISY (28:43):
Oh my god.
It was the cutest little mostinnocent thing, but yeah, yeah,
salt, salting, salting, salting.
So, well, my dad likes salt.
Yeah.
And I think when kids he didhave high blood pressure, we did
have like a salt substitutething going on.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, right.
Like it's not butter.
Yeah, I know.
(29:03):
What is it?
I don't know.
I don't like anything thattells me it's not something
that's a saline solution.
Well, yeah.
They're what are theyadvertising?
But my one thing, and I guess Ifound out that this actually
wasn't that unusual, even if youweren't a s were or were not a
salt addict.
My dad would salt watermelon.
KERRY (29:19):
Oh, oh, my husband loves that.
CHRISY (29:20):
Yeah.
So I think that's a thing.
It's certainly not to the levelof whatever your dad had.
He was obviously suffering fromsome sort of deprivation of
salt, and he needed it in hisdiet as quickly as possible.
The other thing I remember whenI was little, I had a friend
over and we were eatingsomething, and I obviously it
required some salting.
And she must have dropped somesalt on the table when she was
(29:43):
salting her food.
Okay.
So she grabbed like a handfuland she threw it over her
shoulder.
KERRY (29:47):
Oh, yeah, the whole throwing the salt over the
shoulder.
CHRISY (29:49):
And I was like, what did you just do?
Why are you throwing stuff onthe floor?
What the hell was that?
Why are you throwing food in myface?
She's like, oh, you know,because I spilled salt.
You gotta do another soup.
Crazy superstition.
If you spill it.
What?
Who the hell told you to dothat?
The salt in it, Morton.
Yeah, so they could buy it.
Because you know how often youspill salt?
(30:11):
All the time.
It's little, it goes all over.
So they probably just figure,well, tell everybody that if you
spill it, spill more.
Yeah.
And then you have to buy more.
What a fantastic marketingidea.
Hey.
They made millions.
Be paranoid about what peopletell you to do.
It's it's it's really reallygot an underhanded reasoning
(30:31):
behind it.
KERRY (30:32):
Oh my gosh.
So yeah, I think every littlebit, every day, I find something
little that I do.
I go, yeah, I as much as I tryto do do better.
CHRISY (30:41):
That's the other thing.
KERRY (30:42):
We're all gonna try better.
I still catch myself doingthese things.
So yeah.
Yeah.
They are with us all the time.
Good time, good memories.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, I think that probablywraps up today's show.
Yeah.
Yeah.
CHRISY (30:57):
I gotta get to a funeral and then go get some gum at the
convenience stores.
KERRY (31:03):
So we want to hear what crazy superstitions or things
that your family maybe did orthat you catch yourself doing,
or or maybe what do you findyourself doing that's
reminiscent of your parents thatmake used to make you go, oh my
gosh, I'm never gonna do that.
And then now you're doing it.
CHRISY (31:18):
So let us know.
Please, please give mesomething else because the ones
I have, I need to change it up.
KERRY (31:25):
All right, everybody.
Have a wonderful week.
We'll see you next week.
Bye.
Bye bye.
Welcome to a Flashback Friday edition of the
Dysfunction Junkies podcast.
We may not have seen it all,but we've seen enough.
And now here are your hosts,Christy and Carrie.
KERRY (00:21):
Hello, junkies.
I'm Kerry.
CHRISY (00:23):
And I'm Chrissy.
KERRY (00:24):
So it's Flashback Friday today.
Love Friday.
Flashback Friday especially.
Exactly.
So since we're in the month ofOctober and we got Halloween
coming up, so we thought itwould be best to flash back to
episode 12 when we talked aboutdysfunctional superstitions and
idiosyncrasies.
Yes.
(00:45):
So Chrissy, you know, we talkedabout last episode.
We talked about phobias.
And when we were preparing forthis flashback episode, I found
a list of some differentsuperstitions and stuff that I
thought, you know, we didn'ttalk about them on the original
episode, but I thought I wouldscroll through and name some of
these.
CHRISY (01:03):
Right.
KERRY (01:03):
So some of them were common, like, you know, you
don't want to uh break a mirroror else you get seven years of
bad luck, or you don't want towalk under a ladder.
But then there were these otherones that I found kind of
interesting.
So one of them was saying thatyou want to avoid sleeping with
mirr facing the bed because it'sbelieved to drain energy or
invite spirits during sleep.
(01:24):
I I can get it.
CHRISY (01:26):
All of a sudden you take a glance at mirror and you're
like, where did the fat bitchcome from?
Oh shoot, it's me! That'sterrible.
The mirror thing and everybodyin the 70s with their mirrors.
I mean, yeah, they wereinviting something.
No, they were.
KERRY (01:46):
Yeah.
Objects in mirror appear closerthan they are.
Yeah.
Bigger than they are.
Bigger.
Anyways, there was other thingson here like, oh, let's see.
Breaking eggshells to preventwitches.
What the heck goes up withthat?
How are you supposed to open anegg without breaking it?
CHRISY (02:05):
Like, I don't know.
I thought that one was weird.
That was very weird.
KERRY (02:08):
Yeah.
And then there was this one.
Dreaming of fish meanspregnancy.
Many people believe thatdreaming of fish signals that
someone is close to expecting ababy.
CHRISY (02:17):
What within your family unit or a close friend, or just
it earth-wide.
I don't know.
Jeez on me.
KERRY (02:30):
Now, this is a cute one, and I think we've all done this.
Seeing a shooting star andgranting a wish.
So, you know, we see a shootingstar.
Oh, we make a wish, you saw ashooting star.
That was that was kind of like,oh, that's a good one.
CHRISY (02:41):
So my wish is that it's gonna land in the ocean.
I ain't got time to make nofrou fru happy wish, like uh,
you know.
I what what?
You know, I'm sitting thereseeing that fly by.
I'm like, oh man, wonder wherethat's gonna be.
KERRY (02:59):
All right.
So this one's kind of similarto one we did talk about in our
episode.
This was uh avoid leaving shoesupside down.
Uh in some cultures, leavingshoes upside down is thought to
bring bad luck or invite evilspirits.
Is that kind of along the linesof your hat on the bed?
CHRISY (03:14):
I don't know if it is or not, but I've got a big problem
because kids choose every whichway, everywhere.
Even me, probably.
KERRY (03:23):
Okay.
I don't know.
CHRISY (03:24):
Kick those shoes off.
KERRY (03:25):
I didn't even know that was a thing.
I didn't either.
CHRISY (03:27):
Oh God.
KERRY (03:28):
Now you got one more thing to worry about.
CHRISY (03:29):
This is insane.
KERRY (03:30):
So now you're gonna be going through the house, making
sure there's no hats on the bedand the shoes are all upright.
CHRISY (03:34):
The the hat thing really it affects me all the time.
And I do have to say that I dosecretly, if we're somewhere, I
will people watch a little bit,as we all do.
Uh-huh.
And sometimes I knew I do makea mental note that uh if so and
so is leaving the gathering,yeah, I'm like, wait a minute.
That's not the door they came.
They're leaving for anotherdoor.
Somebody needs to let me knowif they make it home.
(03:57):
Just curious.
KERRY (03:59):
If I knew how to get out of your house, I would purposely
go out another door when Ileave now, but your house is too
complicated to get out of.
It is a compound.
CHRISY (04:07):
I do live in a compound, yes.
So uh and actually, I don't, itdoesn't really like affect me
like I'm like, oh my god, I haveto yell at you to tell you to
notice it.
But I just notice it, which Ifind offensive that I even have
to be bothered with thisthought.
It's it's unfortunate.
KERRY (04:23):
So it's kind of interesting going through this
list and have a kind of I wishwe would have had it then.
We might have to do anotherwhole episode on this, maybe
another time, about thesedifferent superstitions and
stuff.
Yeah, absolutely.
But for now, go and enjoy ourflashback Friday episode of
Dysfunctional Superstitions.
This was our episode 12.
So enjoy.
Enjoy everybody.
(04:44):
Hello, junkies.
Welcome back.
I'm Carrie.
CHRISY (04:48):
And I'm Chrissy.
Oh, Chrissy.
KERRY (04:51):
We had a pretty interesting episode last week.
We were diving down the rabbithole of our aging parents.
How are you feeling?
That's a long pause.
CHRISY (05:01):
Yeah, I'm trying to think how I'm feeling about
that.
You know, it it it feels uhgood to talk about it.
Yes.
And I think it is good to talkabout it, especially somebody
who totally uh gets it.
Yes, but it also is a littledrainy, it is very draining.
We need to pick me up on thistopic.
Because really, where does allof our dysfunction stem from?
(05:22):
And we're not trying to pointfingers, nope, nope, no
judgment, no blame.
No, but uh it kind of doesstart with the mom and dad a
little bit.
Yeah, and then their mom anddad.
It's an endless cycle,everyone.
KERRY (05:34):
It is, it is and that's what worries me is like, okay,
that means I'm the cycle that'snext.
So am I becoming like myparents?
CHRISY (05:42):
You gotta really fight not to I know that there, I mean
come on, we we can't be liarsto ourselves and say that
sometimes we don't catch that.
Oh my god, that's sort of likewhat my mom or my dad would do.
Why am I being this way?
Exactly.
But I guess recognizing it isthe first step that's true to
bettering it.
KERRY (06:01):
That's true.
I hope.
Yeah, that's very true.
That's very true.
What were some of the sayingsthat your mom or dad would say
that like you might catchyourself saying now, or that you
were like, oh, I'm never gonnause that one as an adult.
CHRISY (06:12):
Well, there's quite a few things my father used to
say, but I can't repeat that.
KERRY (06:17):
No.
My mom used to always say, It'sgonna get worse before it gets
better.
Well, yeah, oh yeah.
CHRISY (06:22):
And I I I that one well, and I told you my whole
philosophy was this is gonna bebetter.
Right, right.
Worse and worse and worse.
But yeah, my mom, I know, Iquiet.
She made me do crazy things,but uh not really any sayings.
Now, uh my my husband's uh mom,a lovely lady, he always
reminds me of things that sheused to say.
And was well, one was you needto be the better person.
(06:45):
So when you're like, well, youknow, somebody's doing this to
me, so I'm gonna do this.
And my husband will always comeat me and go, Chrissy, you
gotta be the better person.
Oh I and I'm like, wait aminute.
Do you remember who youmarried, Nick?
Well, for yeah, there's one.
And two, who the hell told thislie?
And again, I think it'ssomebody who probably was not
(07:08):
the person getting screwed over.
True.
It was somebody saying, I'mdoing this horrible thing to
you, but you're gonna be thebetter person, right?
Be the better person.
Who's judging this?
Yeah, really.
And the other one that myhusband told me recently that I
freaked out about because I'mlike another stupid rule.
Where did this come from?
(07:28):
Two wrongs don't make a right.
First of all, this itencompasses two things I hate
math and bullshit.
Two wrongs, who says two wrongsdon't make a right?
Maybe if I take two wrongturns, I might still get right
where I need to be.
Well, this is true.
(07:49):
That you make that woman on theGPS that's always annoying the
hell out of me.
KERRY (07:54):
We call her MapLissa.
CHRISY (07:55):
Oh my god.
One time I was in a car testdriving a car with a guy, and
the the cell, the sales guy wasin the back, and that thing was
on.
And I said, This is sohorrible, and I'm gonna offend
women.
I don't know, I might offendmen, I'm gonna offend everybody
right now.
But I used I told him, I said,you know, I can see why you guys
block us women out.
I say, because listening tothis woman give me directions is
(08:18):
annoying the hell out of me.
I'm like, can you change up thevoice uh maybe uh you know, to
an accent, or maybe a little kidcould give me directions.
I would love a little kid totell me where to go.
Go down this road for two moremiles.
Are you sure two more miles?
How many Tonka trunks is it uhbefore I get to my destination?
KERRY (08:42):
That's like the Alexa's, how you can change the voices on
those.
We have a couple Alexas aroundour house and in our barn and
stuff.
One of them is like anAustralian accent guy, and I
love it.
It's the same thing you'resaying, but then we have some of
them that are the woman'svoice.
CHRISY (08:57):
Well, it could be a woman or but I mean she's very
uh authoritarian.
Is that the word?
I mean, and what's funny is theAlexa we have in our house.
Yeah, it it likes everybody butme.
Oh, that's my husband.
He doesn't listen to that.
It will not.
I'll tell it, set a timer, youknow, play this song.
Uh-huh.
It it crickets, dead silence.
And then my daughter or myhusband will talk to her right
(09:21):
away.
Yeah.
Okay, setting a timer.
KERRY (09:24):
Mine will say, good morning, Carrie, in the male
sexy voice, and then it won'ttalk to my husband.
He'll be like, Good morning,Carrie.
Like so annoyed by it becausethe Alexis said good morning.
CHRISY (09:36):
Well, mine says good morning when I tell it, or good
afternoon, or good evening,whenever I'm asking it to do
something.
If it does listen to mycommand, uh-huh, it doesn't
acknowledge me at all.
It always says my daughter'sname.
Oh.
It says her name.
Oh, that's and I just get this,I scrunch my face up and snirk
(09:57):
a little to myself, but I'm justlike, look, just do what I
want.
I don't care what you want tocall me today.
Just do it.
Put the timer on, please, so Iknow what time to take this
stupid dinner out.
KERRY (10:09):
Oh my.
You know, one of the things uhgrowing up, we had there was a
girl, you might know.
Were you ever a Girl Scout?
As soon as I said that, Iwanted to suck the question back
in.
Wow, you really went there andyou asked me.
I regretted it as soon as itwas gonna be.
(10:32):
I thought maybe your mom madeyou or something.
Come on.
CHRISY (10:36):
Mom, mom would have told me to do it.
Does it require her to beinvolved?
Not happening.
But you do it, Chrissy.
And I'll show up every once ina while.
Yeah, no, no Girl Scouts here,no brownie.
KERRY (10:49):
No, no.
Okay, well, we had a Girl Scoutcamp not far from where growing
up where I lived, but now it'sactually like literally a mile
around the corner from my housenow.
And oh gosh, where was I evengoing with the Girl Scout camp?
Oh, okay, Crazy Kate.
So, anyways, right before yougot to the entrance of the Girl
Scout camp, and this was likeway out in the country.
So there was this house, thisfarmhouse, and it had this lady
(11:11):
in her, everyone knew her asCrazy Kate.
I don't know if Kate was herfirst name.
I don't know, but that was thelegend of Crazy Kate.
And this lady, like, everyonetalked about her because of all
like the weird things that shedid.
Well, when we moved back toOhio and we got our farm, I
quickly started realizing, like,oh my god, I'm turning into
(11:32):
Crazy Kate.
Because I found myself doingsome of the things that we would
see Crazy Kate do.
What was she doing?
And now it made sense to me.
One of the things that shewould do is be like in the
middle of the field, la la la lala, liking around at the sky
and like, you know, whatever.
And so, well, when we moved toour farm, we have barn swallows,
(11:52):
just a little bird.
Oh, you're looking at me like aminute, that sounds like
something dirty.
CHRISY (11:58):
No.
And it it sounds like a hugeundertaking too.
KERRY (12:03):
Okay.
Barn swallows are a littlebird.
Okay.
A living bird.
Yeah, it's a living bird, andthey catch like little bugs.
And I love these little birds.
Like I they just fascinate me.
So if we're mowing the grass,that like stirs up all the bugs.
So they get real active andthey'll start swarming.
I'll be mowing the grass andI'll like realize I'm looking at
the birds swarming, and mylines are no longer straight.
CHRISY (12:26):
Oh boy.
So good thing you're out in thecountry.
Yeah, you get uh somebody willtotally stick at you if you did
that in our neighborhood.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
KERRY (12:37):
Well, needless to say, Jim will often have to come and
remote what I did because thelines weren't straight.
I realized one day when I wasout there and I was like, look
at the birds.
Like, I know nobody else cansee the little birds swooping
around, but I'm out there mowingin this crazy pattern.
So I'm like, oh, maybe CrazyKate was looking at the little
birds.
Might be.
(12:57):
And then we put a flagpole up,and it's kind of in the middle
of this big field that's rightnext to our house.
When the concrete was curing,we wanted to, you know, put our
initials and stuff in it.
Well, we poured the concretelike the night before.
Six in the morning, I go out todo chores and I thought, oh,
let me go check the concrete.
Well, it was almost alreadyhardened up.
So here I am, six in themorning, carving our initials in
(13:23):
the middle, like, but no onecould see that because the pole
wasn't in the ground.
So you just see this lady atsix in the morning in the middle
of this field digging atsomething or whatever.
And I'm like, who knows?
I'm sure it looked crazy to allthe people on 224 driving by
our farm.
So again, my thought was, ohyeah, crazy Kate.
Crazy Kate was probably diggingin the grass, doing something,
(13:45):
you know.
And so, but you didn't know thewhole story, you know.
CHRISY (13:49):
And so Well, when you're a kid too.
Exactly.
The storytelling, right, right.
You just want to totally makeit fascinating.
Right, right.
So you do like sort of uhamplify it, create these
fantastic scenarios.
KERRY (14:02):
The other thing I found myself doing was we had a little
goat and a little sheepwalking.
Uh we have six, seven acres,and so I had them out and I was
walking around the property, andall these little animals, like
I was like the Pied Piper, andall these little animals were
following me.
And so again, I was like, Thisis Crazy Kate.
You know, it's kind of funny.
I catch myself doing things,and uh, and then I'll ask the
same thing, like, oh, what am Idoing?
(14:23):
That was uh my parents, but thecrazy Kate thing always gets me
when I'm at my house and I'mdoing something silly outside or
prospectively silly, I'll belike, Oh yeah, I'm crazy Kate.
I'm the new Crazy Kate, and I'monly a mile from the original
Crazy Kate.
Crazy Kate 2.0.
CHRISY (14:39):
Well yeah, so when you were talking about this lady uh
living sort of like that uhright away, I was thinking
sounds a little bit like theBlair Witch.
KERRY (14:50):
I've only seen snippets of it because I don't like that
movie.
I know.
Oh my gosh.
You know how I feel about it.
Yeah, I know.
CHRISY (14:58):
Oh well, we'll talk about that another time.
KERRY (15:00):
What were some of the things that your your moms and
dad did growing up that catchyou?
CHRISY (15:06):
Well, superstitions are a crazy thing, and I think at
some point everybody's a victimto that.
Yeah.
My mom has some that is verycrazy, I guess, uh uh to say the
least.
Although maybe some people alsohave these.
So one of them is that's alwaysa problem, and sometimes it it
affects everybody else too, isuh according to my mother, okay,
(15:29):
you cannot exit the door ofsomeone's house that you didn't
come through when you camethere.
Oh.
So you must exit the same dooryou entered.
Okay.
So if you're at someone's houseand all of a sudden that door
is no longer available, or it'smore convenient for them to let
you out a different way, uh-huh.
My mom is in full panic.
(15:49):
Or if you try to exitsomebody's house, she remembers.
Oh she categorized the roles.
She well, she knows where youcame in.
KERRY (15:59):
Oh and how does she like hurry up and escort you to the
right door?
CHRISY (16:03):
She's like, no, no, we need to go out that you need to
go out that door.
I don't know what's gonnahappen.
Wow if you it but there's athere's a side note foot there.
There's a caveat.
If it's your house, okay, youcan come and go any other door
you want.
You could jump out the window,jump off the roof, do whatever
you want.
But if you're visiting, that'sthe way.
KERRY (16:22):
So if I came to your house and I went in the front
door, yeah, and then say we wentoutside to your backyard and I
was gonna leave, I couldn't justgo out the gate to the car.
I'd have to go back in throughthe house and back through the
front door.
CHRISY (16:35):
If my mother was hosting you, yes, she would shuffle
you.
I mean, I would tell you ifshe's there, I mean she's here
now.
We could try it after when yougo to leave.
But she didn't see what door Icame in.
Well, she knew we told you guysto come through the other door
because where she's at, we don'twant the cold air to hit her.
Right, right, right.
Okay.
Delicate little sweetheart thatshe's and another one was you
(16:58):
can't go home after a funeral.
Don't go straight home.
Where are you supposed to go?
Something you you know, thesaying you don't have you don't
have to go home, but you can'tstay here.
Well, you you can't go home,but you can go wherever the hell
else you want.
That's not your home.
So after a funeral, what wouldyou have to go do?
Uh uh all of us, becausegenerally you're not going to a
(17:19):
funeral by yourself.
Yeah.
Chances are if you're byyourself, you're gonna be like,
look, I'm just gonna do whateverthat I gotta get home.
I can't be doing this.
DM any super citizens.
Yeah, right.
You hope.
But so you're in a group ofpeople, you're all in the same
car, you you know, you're goinghome.
Oh, no, no, no, we gotta gohere.
I mean, it was just, andeverybody participated in this.
(17:40):
We would normally stop at a gasstation, okay, and maul around
in funeral clothes, like thenight of the living dead in
there.
Because we just came from.
KERRY (17:52):
So if you pulled into the gas station on the way home, if
your dad went into the store,no, no, you had all had to drop
it.
Yeah, everybody had tophysically cross another
threshold.
Yes.
CHRISY (18:06):
And I'm guessing you had to drop off any sort of dead
spirits that you had attached toyou.
So I would tell everybody nowthat this is a warning.
When you go to the gas station,there's probably a bunch of
dropped off dead spirits justroaming the aisles, getting gas,
(18:26):
getting a slurpee, mayberobbing the joint.
KERRY (18:29):
But you know, but if you stopped and got gas and you all
got out of the car but didn't gointo the store, would that
still count?
Like, say you just got out ofthe car and you know, like had a
cigarette break or whatever.
No, you had to physically gointo another building.
Yeah, you had to cross anotherthreshold.
And make sure you exit thatdoor.
CHRISY (18:47):
The same way you would if there's two exits, don't you
dare.
KERRY (18:50):
So the in and out roll didn't make just home.
It was everywhere.
Yeah.
Well, you mean, oh, well, youmean you could go to like JC
Penny's or something?
Yeah, if I went into the eastentrance at JCPenney's, did I
have to leave the east entranceor could I go through the north
entrance up?
CHRISY (19:05):
Yeah, probably, because like over there.
Well unless you're gettingpicked up.
Unless you get picked up.
KERRY (19:10):
Okay, there's caveat.
CHRISY (19:11):
Well, see, now this isn't a residence now.
KERRY (19:13):
That's why I'm asking.
Is it commercial or residence?
CHRISY (19:16):
It was residence.
KERRY (19:17):
It was only okay.
Yeah, yeah.
Retail didn't count.
Retail didn't.
CHRISY (19:21):
Retail.
KERRY (19:22):
We gotta get the rules right.
I know.
CHRISY (19:24):
And you know what's really terrifying is that you're
sitting here asking mequestions I've never been asked,
and yet I know the answers.
And there is nothing writtenanywhere.
You don't get a booklet onthis, you just get it ingrained
in yourself, your soul.
And it's like, what?
Why?
So then my mom added anotherfootnote years later.
(19:46):
Uh-oh.
Because then she's like, Well,you can't even go home after you
go to the cemetery.
And for some reason, my familyloved to go to the cemetery and
stare at stones with people'snames on it.
And let's stop off at thecemetery, stop at so-and-so's
grave.
And my mom was like, Well, wecan't go home.
And I was like, Stop.
KERRY (20:01):
Oh, so even if it wasn't from a funeral, so it wasn't
like funeral cemetery.
You're talking like, hey, we'rejust gonna go to the cemetery
and pay our respects.
Then that all rule alsoapplied.
It started to.
Oh, okay.
CHRISY (20:12):
It didn't always seem to be that way.
But then something happened.
I don't know if like that was aJane rule 2.0.
Yeah.
And it's like, wait a minute.
I don't remember this being therule.
And guess what?
No, we're not doing this.
Guess what?
I just won't go to thecemetery.
I'm what it, you know.
I understand people get andthey get they get some, you
know, satisfaction.
(20:33):
And some agree, you know,that's the way they can relate,
and that's fine.
Uh absolutely.
But yeah, with my mom, you'rejust gonna learn to not go
places anymore because theserules might pop up.
Deal with it.
Another thing was you couldn'thave live fish in the house.
What?
I mean, dead fish game on.
Well, yeah, we talked aboutthat.
Yeah.
Night of the seven fishes.
(20:53):
More fish the merrier, as longas they're dead.
But if you have fish as a pet,you never had a pet fish.
No, one time my sister took melong time ago.
Used to be a store a long timeago called GC Murphy's.
And real I mean, we're talking.
I don't even know if that onecracked the 80s as far as its
existence.
It was it's an old store.
(21:14):
They had a little pet section,you know.
I think my sister got me a pinkand a blue goldfish.
Oh.
And I was so excited.
Oh, these lovely fish, becausethey kind of look like toys.
Yeah.
And brought them home, and mymom came home and saw a little
fish bowl with these swimmingfish in them.
Oh my gosh.
Freaked out.
No, freaked, get those out ofthe house right now.
(21:37):
Made my sister take them back.
I don't know if she even madeit back.
She might have dumped them downthe toilet.
I don't know what happened tohim.
So horrible.
But my mother would not allowhim in the house.
I I don't it's a bad luck.
It's bad luck.
KERRY (21:47):
So it wasn't that she didn't want pet fish, it was
just bec you cannot have fish inthe house.
Right.
Oh my gosh.
CHRISY (21:53):
But isn't fish a a symbol of the original
fisherman, Jesus Our Lord?
KERRY (21:59):
Yeah, they do the fish symbol, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
CHRISY (22:02):
And he was a fisherman, but but he obviously wasn't
taking live fish home.
KERRY (22:05):
He didn't have a pet fish.
No.
CHRISY (22:07):
He was doing it for fish.
No beta fish for him.
No.
So whenever I go, and it'sstill to this day, Carrie, if I
go to somebody's house, and theyhave pet fish.
And they have fish, I get alittle sweaty.
PTSD.
Because I'm like, oh my God,how's your luck going here?
Everything going good, youguys?
Everybody, nobody's gottenhurt, dead, anything now?
(22:29):
Okay.
Wow.
Oh my god.
Yeah, I gotta get out of herethough, because I just it's a
ticking time bomb here, people.
I don't know.
KERRY (22:37):
Good thing I didn't have any fish in my house when you
started coming out.
CHRISY (22:40):
Oh, and you know what's funny is I think both of my
sisters, uh, especially my onesister, had like aquariums all
over her house.
Oh and they and they'rebeautiful.
Yeah, I do like really likethem.
They are lovely to watch, and Iknow they're a little bit to
maintain, I'm guessing.
Because you have to keep themclean.
And yeah, I mean they'rerelaxing.
(23:00):
My s my son, he when he we goanywhere and they have uh he's
like uh fascinated.
Of course you are, they're funto watch, but now okay.
KERRY (23:08):
So here's another going back to like the question we had
on the the gas station there.
If you go to a retailestablishment that has an
aquarium, like if you went toBass Pro Shop where they have
all the would your mom beequally freaked out, or it was
only residential that youcouldn't have pet fish?
Oh yeah, no, just res again,residential.
It's just residential that'saffected.
It's a residential rule.
CHRISY (23:28):
Retail is seems to be exempt from all of these rules,
thank goodness.
Because it'd be like, Well, Ican't go here, I can't go there,
I can't go here, I can't gohere.
Oh my god.
I unfortunately am a victimbecause I do watch a lot of
movies of a superstition that myhusband gets very mad at me
because I freak out if I seethis happen here.
And if I accidentally do it, Ifreak out all myself.
(23:49):
What did you do?
Don't ever have a hat on a bed.
KERRY (23:54):
Oh yeah.
That's a big cowboy thing.
Is it a cowboy thing?
CHRISY (23:58):
It is a big cowboy thing.
Well, it makes sense becausethe movie that I learned that
from, yeah, Drugstore Cowboy.
Oh, I don't know it.
It's about people who robdrugstores.
Oh, I think it's actual basedon a true story.
They rob drug, they're drugaddicts.
Okay.
So they're drugstore cowboys.
Oh.
And Matt Dillon, and somebodymy age, yum.
Gotta love Matt Dillon.
(24:19):
If Matt Dillon tells me don'tput a hat on a bed, no way,
dude.
I will not put a hat on a bed.
Thank you, Matt Dillon.
My husband will sometimes getvery mad at me because I will
see one of his ball caps on thebed.
Or even on the foot of the likeon the railing.
Okay.
Oh, it can't even hang on therailing.
No, it's not.
(24:40):
Well, it technically itprobably could because it's not
on the bed, but sort of it kindof is on the bed.
But I will grab that thing andwhip it.
I was like, outta here,goodbye.
No hats anywhere near this bed.
Damn you.
KERRY (24:51):
It's so funny that you say that.
You must not be a Yellowstonefan then.
CHRISY (24:55):
I watched some of it, and uh I it's a good show.
Okay.
Yeah, I did watch some of it.
KERRY (25:01):
There was uh not too long ago an episode on Yellowstone
in the final season-ish here,and one of the characters passes
away, and when they went to hisbunk in the bunkhouse to clean
things out, his hat was on thebed.
Oh no.
Yeah, and the one character waslike, Isn't wait, isn't that
(25:22):
bad luck?
And the other character waslike, Well, it doesn't matter
now because the guy's becausethe guy's dead.
Yeah, oh but um that wasinteresting that you bring that
one up because that was just onthe yellow slide too long ago.
CHRISY (25:33):
Yeah, well, death was related to the incident in the
drugstore cowboy, too, that theykind of connected because there
was a disbeliever in theirgroup, uh, somebody they had
picked up that was part of theirlittle posse.
Oh and uh they the characterwas uh just sort of a pain in
the butt through the wholething.
And uh just to prove everybodywrong, uh-huh, she tossed her
hat on the bed and said, This isstupid.
(25:54):
You people are stupid.
Why do you believe this isstupid stuff?
And then she died.
She they found her dead.
Again, that's another reason toreinforce me.
Oh my god, don't put the hat onthe bed, don't put the hat on
the bed.
Well, I do have anysuperstitions.
KERRY (26:10):
There wasn't necessarily superstitions, but there was
definitely idi idiosyncrasies.
Let's call them idiosyncrasies,might be the better word.
My dad was like so addicted tosalt.
He salted everything.
Anything he would just salt,like, and he was one of those,
he wouldn't even taste his food,he would just automatically
(26:31):
start pounding the salt on it.
So it didn't matter, did it eatit or not?
Exactly.
Salt.
He just salt, salt, you know.
Which is why I think a lot oftimes, like I don't cook with a
lot of salt.
Like I might put a little tinybit in, but then I leave it for
whoever's eating to taste it,because if he made anything, it
was so salty.
So, right.
This is how you know you mayhave a salt addiction.
(26:54):
So my dad was in the hospitalbecause of some heart issue.
Hmm, I wonder why.
Too much salt.
So anyway, they put him on ano-salt diet.
So no sodium for him as he's inthe hospital.
And he was there for like, Idon't know, a couple days or
whatever.
And he was going through somuch salt addiction and he wore
contacts.
(27:14):
Told my mom, well, when youcome and visit me, I I need
saline solution for my contacts.
Oh, my mom brings in, you know,a bottle of saline solution.
He opens it up and he startsputting it on his food.
Oh my god.
He was using the salinesolution to get salt on his food
because they put him on a nosehot.
Oh my god.
(27:34):
It was bad.
It was to this day.
I remember being in thehospital going, ah, I don't I
don't think you're supposed tobe doing that.
That kind of defeats the nose.
And ew, you're putting salt orsaline solution on your lettuce.
Oh my god.
CHRISY (27:53):
Anybody here wear contact lenses?
Do not go into room 256.
256, don't enter with yoursaline solution.
Wow, that is that's that isn'ta bad.
KERRY (28:06):
My brother-in-law and I were just recently talking about
this the other day while wewere having lunch with my mom.
Um, because I think he wassalting something, and I'm like,
oh, I can't even.
And we we were talking thisreminisced and brought this
subject up.
So, anyways, he goes, I'llnever forget your dad would go
get pizza, pepperoni pizza, fullof pepperoni.
And the first thing he would dois come home and he'd salt it.
(28:26):
And it's like, pepperoni, comeon, like there's how much salt
in that, you know?
But he would be adding the saltto it.
So I looked at my mom, I'mlike, Mom, do you remember dad
doing these things?
She goes, and she goes, Whoa,what's crazier is that I married
him.
Well, she might have a pointthere.
CHRISY (28:43):
Oh my god.
It was the cutest little mostinnocent thing, but yeah, yeah,
salt, salting, salting, salting.
So, well, my dad likes salt.
Yeah.
And I think when kids he didhave high blood pressure, we did
have like a salt substitutething going on.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, right.
Like it's not butter.
Yeah, I know.
(29:03):
What is it?
I don't know.
I don't like anything thattells me it's not something
that's a saline solution.
Well, yeah.
They're what are theyadvertising?
But my one thing, and I guess Ifound out that this actually
wasn't that unusual, even if youweren't a s were or were not a
salt addict.
My dad would salt watermelon.
KERRY (29:19):
Oh, oh, my husband loves that.
CHRISY (29:20):
Yeah.
So I think that's a thing.
It's certainly not to the levelof whatever your dad had.
He was obviously suffering fromsome sort of deprivation of
salt, and he needed it in hisdiet as quickly as possible.
The other thing I remember whenI was little, I had a friend
over and we were eatingsomething, and I obviously it
required some salting.
And she must have dropped somesalt on the table when she was
(29:43):
salting her food.
Okay.
So she grabbed like a handfuland she threw it over her
shoulder.
KERRY (29:47):
Oh, yeah, the whole throwing the salt over the
shoulder.
CHRISY (29:49):
And I was like, what did you just do?
Why are you throwing stuff onthe floor?
What the hell was that?
Why are you throwing food in myface?
She's like, oh, you know,because I spilled salt.
You gotta do another soup.
Crazy superstition.
If you spill it.
What?
Who the hell told you to dothat?
The salt in it, Morton.
Yeah, so they could buy it.
Because you know how often youspill salt?
(30:11):
All the time.
It's little, it goes all over.
So they probably just figure,well, tell everybody that if you
spill it, spill more.
Yeah.
And then you have to buy more.
What a fantastic marketingidea.
Hey.
They made millions.
Be paranoid about what peopletell you to do.
It's it's it's really reallygot an underhanded reasoning
(30:31):
behind it.
KERRY (30:32):
Oh my gosh.
So yeah, I think every littlebit, every day, I find something
little that I do.
I go, yeah, I as much as I tryto do do better.
CHRISY (30:41):
That's the other thing.
KERRY (30:42):
We're all gonna try better.
I still catch myself doingthese things.
So yeah.
Yeah.
They are with us all the time.
Good time, good memories.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, I think that probablywraps up today's show.
Yeah.
Yeah.
CHRISY (30:57):
I gotta get to a funeral and then go get some gum at the
convenience stores.
KERRY (31:03):
So we want to hear what crazy superstitions or things
that your family maybe did orthat you catch yourself doing,
or or maybe what do you findyourself doing that's
reminiscent of your parents thatmake used to make you go, oh my
gosh, I'm never gonna do that.
And then now you're doing it.
CHRISY (31:18):
So let us know.
Please, please give mesomething else because the ones
I have, I need to change it up.
KERRY (31:25):
All right, everybody.
Have a wonderful week.
We'll see you next week.
Bye.
Bye bye.
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