Post by Dave on May 13, 2011 20:31:17 GMT
Superstitions what do you make of them? I know some believe in them while others think they are a load of old nonsense. But I have yet to meet a person who after saying something like “its working fine now” does not end up adding touch wood and then looks for something wooden to touch. I also do not know anyone who walks under a ladder or gets worried if they broke a mirror.
I take the view that all superstitions were started because of something that really happened and enough times for some to believe it was more than just a coincidence. What about magpies, is it really one for sorrow and two for joy etc?
What I’m about to tell you is 100% true and the reason I now hate that bloody bird and would happily kill everyone I see now if I could. It was nine and a half years ago that Carol had her first consultation to learn the results of tests that had been done. As we both got out of the car in the hospital car park, one single magpie landed and sat right behind our car.
Well the news we got that day sure brought sorrow in our hearts and yet we never gave a thought to the event that happened in the car park that day. Move on a number of years to the day Carol leaned the cancer had spread even further. That day as the appointment was late in the afternoon; we went out and made the day one of Dave and Carols special days out.
We took the view that we should not make that appointment an important part of our day, we both knew that nasty man would have an even bigger hammer waiting to hit us with once we went into see him.
We had a great day out and Carol wanted to pop in the supermarket at the Willows to get something for tea just before we had to go to the appointment. I waited by the car for her and just as she got close by after getting what she wanted, a single magpie landed right beside me and pecked my shoe.
Well as expected we got clobbered really hard just a short while later and still we never gave a thought to what had happened in the Willows car park. Move onto November last year when Carol and I had to go and learn the results of the scan we demanded.
Carol has a very small bird table in the garden close to her bench and we had never ever seen a magpie in our garden before. Yet on this day just as we were about to leave to go to the hospital, one was sitting on the roof of the bird table looking right at us.
This time that man found a sledge hammer to hit us with and boy did it hurt, yet we took in all he had to say and came home still very much in fighting mode. Move onto the last week of March when Carol went into hospital and on that morning that magpie was back sitting on the roof of Carol’s bird table again.
Carol was in a single room at the hospital and if you looked out of the window you could see one tree only. I never saw a single bird in that tree for the whole two weeks Carol was in there.
On the Friday the 8th of April I woke up at 6.am after sleeping a small bit during the night of a recliner chair next to Carol’s bed and looked out of the window. A single magpie was sat in the tree and he sat there for the whole day.
I had talked to Ant earlier in the week and told him about the magpie’s incidents and I was not sure if he really believed if there was anything in it. Dear Carol passed away at 7.10pm that evening and it must have been sometime after 8pm, the sister asked me to go with her as something’s needed to be sorted out before I went home.
I asked Ant to come with me and as we sat in some room some way away from the room Carol was in, Ant saw outside the window, a single magpie looking in at us .Here I am five weeks since that Friday Carol passed away and I know those magpies are playing with me and trying to torment me.
Since the day Carol went into hospital I have not seen once, two magpies together at all, they have all been on their own. But it’s worse than that as before I would only see magpies sitting on some branch of a tree, or sitting on some grass verge by the roadside.
Now all the ones I see are sitting beside the road and fly at eye level right across the road in front of me and trust me I’m not imagining this, it really is happening and every single time I see one.
I’m an animal lover and would never harm one single creature, but I now hate magpies and as soon as I see one and he flies across the road in front of me, I shout f**k off and just wish I had a gun or something to kill the bloody thing with.
Are they trying to tell me something? Because if they are, I think I got it.
I take the view that all superstitions were started because of something that really happened and enough times for some to believe it was more than just a coincidence. What about magpies, is it really one for sorrow and two for joy etc?
What I’m about to tell you is 100% true and the reason I now hate that bloody bird and would happily kill everyone I see now if I could. It was nine and a half years ago that Carol had her first consultation to learn the results of tests that had been done. As we both got out of the car in the hospital car park, one single magpie landed and sat right behind our car.
Well the news we got that day sure brought sorrow in our hearts and yet we never gave a thought to the event that happened in the car park that day. Move on a number of years to the day Carol leaned the cancer had spread even further. That day as the appointment was late in the afternoon; we went out and made the day one of Dave and Carols special days out.
We took the view that we should not make that appointment an important part of our day, we both knew that nasty man would have an even bigger hammer waiting to hit us with once we went into see him.
We had a great day out and Carol wanted to pop in the supermarket at the Willows to get something for tea just before we had to go to the appointment. I waited by the car for her and just as she got close by after getting what she wanted, a single magpie landed right beside me and pecked my shoe.
Well as expected we got clobbered really hard just a short while later and still we never gave a thought to what had happened in the Willows car park. Move onto November last year when Carol and I had to go and learn the results of the scan we demanded.
Carol has a very small bird table in the garden close to her bench and we had never ever seen a magpie in our garden before. Yet on this day just as we were about to leave to go to the hospital, one was sitting on the roof of the bird table looking right at us.
This time that man found a sledge hammer to hit us with and boy did it hurt, yet we took in all he had to say and came home still very much in fighting mode. Move onto the last week of March when Carol went into hospital and on that morning that magpie was back sitting on the roof of Carol’s bird table again.
Carol was in a single room at the hospital and if you looked out of the window you could see one tree only. I never saw a single bird in that tree for the whole two weeks Carol was in there.
On the Friday the 8th of April I woke up at 6.am after sleeping a small bit during the night of a recliner chair next to Carol’s bed and looked out of the window. A single magpie was sat in the tree and he sat there for the whole day.
I had talked to Ant earlier in the week and told him about the magpie’s incidents and I was not sure if he really believed if there was anything in it. Dear Carol passed away at 7.10pm that evening and it must have been sometime after 8pm, the sister asked me to go with her as something’s needed to be sorted out before I went home.
I asked Ant to come with me and as we sat in some room some way away from the room Carol was in, Ant saw outside the window, a single magpie looking in at us .Here I am five weeks since that Friday Carol passed away and I know those magpies are playing with me and trying to torment me.
Since the day Carol went into hospital I have not seen once, two magpies together at all, they have all been on their own. But it’s worse than that as before I would only see magpies sitting on some branch of a tree, or sitting on some grass verge by the roadside.
Now all the ones I see are sitting beside the road and fly at eye level right across the road in front of me and trust me I’m not imagining this, it really is happening and every single time I see one.
I’m an animal lover and would never harm one single creature, but I now hate magpies and as soon as I see one and he flies across the road in front of me, I shout f**k off and just wish I had a gun or something to kill the bloody thing with.
Are they trying to tell me something? Because if they are, I think I got it.
As it is a topic that keeps coming up...