Quick Bite: Wives’ Tale #3 – Chocolate

Anyu always said...
That eating chocolate will make your entire face breakout. How did you parents deter you from eating candy?

Quick Bite: Wives’ Tale #2 – Fart

Nagymama always said...
that your insides would explode if you held in a fart. What did your family tell you about farting?

Quick Bite: Wives’ Tale #1 – Poop

Anyu and Nagymama always said...
that poop would come out of your mouth if you didn’t poop for more than 3 days. What did your parents tell you about poop?

“Wives’ Tales” Contest

The whole series of Andrea's amazing  "Lessons from My Mother" embroideries got me wondering if you are related to someone superstitious or know someone that has any of these batty theories! So, I'm holding a contest!

Post any of your hilarious or interesting wives' tales, superstitions, and general hilarity right here - the winner will get a (tasteful) ad promoting their website on the front page of this blog (which receives over 15,000 hits a month now, thank you readers!) for one whole month and a MYSTERY PRIZE mailed to your house!

Classic Example of a Superstition: My Nagymama always told me that a man lived in the Big Potty that wanted to suck me into the sewer because she was afraid that I would drown in the toilet. This causes me to fear The Big Potty for years.

I'll be posting mini-superstitions up all week, so, start posting, people! Can you do WORSE than Nagymama? You have until MARCH 6th to tell me about it...unless you think it's bad luck to enter contests.

Photo by Mike Wadestoru

Quick Bite: April Fooled

No one ever calls my home phone number except for telemarketers and my mother. After listening to six "very urgent messages about your car's warranty," I finally heard a familiar voice:

Hallo, Stephanie....dis is your modder. Don't forget, today is April Fooled, so be careful nobody puts poison in your food.

Wow. Next March 31st, I'll make sure to sleep with a gun in case someone tries to sneak into my kitchen and put poison in my cereal or worse... my GOULASH!

Did you play an April Fools' joke today? What was the worst April Fools' joke played on you? Or were YOU the one that played it?

Photo by Georgios M. W.