Those of us old enough to remember landline phones will know never talk on the phone during a thunderstorm because you could get electrocuted through the phone line

@irzat4419

Ай бұрын

The phone would always ring during a storm 😂

@busterkeaton1041

Ай бұрын

I still remember the phone ringing constantly every time we had a lightning storm. It was usually one loud ding sound and not a full ring.

@cocotan6

Ай бұрын

I still have a landline. It doesn't ring during a lightning storm.

@headlights-go-up

Ай бұрын

@@irzat4419 inevitably the person calling would ask "you see how bad this storm is??" or "is it just as bad by you??"

@bamachine

Ай бұрын

@@cocotan6 Because you do not have a mechanical bell inside your phone, like we did back in the 70's and 80's or prior. Those rang because the static charge in the air, during a strike was enough to energize the coil inside the phone, enough to make it ring like a half ring. It was really rare for a strike to pass through the phone line to reach the actual phones. It was just induction into the line from that sudden charged atmosphere. Source: Worked in telecom for 25 years.

I’m not superstitious, but I am a little stitious.

@SkylabBeats

Ай бұрын

username checks out

@crimsondynasty6884

Ай бұрын

It's called stupid-stitious.😂

@jeanieabsher8972

Ай бұрын

😂😅😂

@Ecclectic_citcelccE

Ай бұрын

Good one😂😂😂

@rhondaarnesen6684

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

As someone who has had my land-line phone blown off the wall as the result of a lightning strike, I will say that some of these "old wives' tales" have more than a little truth in them. I have whole-house surge protection now so I don't have to run around and unplug everything whenever there's a thunderstorm. Best peace of mind I've ever purchased! 😂

@spudgamer6049

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I've seen the junction boxes blown off as well. Also seen where lightning had run old cast iron pipes. Admittedly, never seen it with copper or the various synthetics, but... And of course, lightning kills air conditioners, heat pumps, water heaters, well pumps, and stoves every year.

@3422dave

Ай бұрын

It hit out chain link fence and hit a wood handle knife my nana was peeling potatoes with and stuck it in the other wall

@sickofcrap8992

Ай бұрын

These are not just Southern things.

@CrisMind

Ай бұрын

As an electrician, I still use this one. I've seen the horrors lightning can wreck

@patchdavis35

Ай бұрын

ALL Old Wives Tales have a basis in truth somewhere. Grandma didn't live that long without knowing a thing or two.

Never heard the knife on before, but did anyone else get the "Never gift someone an empty wallet" in their pack of traditions?

@chrismdb5686

Ай бұрын

What's the story with that one?

@StAlphonsusHasAPosse

Ай бұрын

Yes, never give someone a purse or wallet without some money in it

@jxchamb

Ай бұрын

Yup. Heard that one about the wallet, too.

@seandelevan

Ай бұрын

Yes my Polish in laws say and do this

@brysenlee4228

Ай бұрын

I’ve always put a nickel in a wallet before I’ve lended to someone or gave it as a gift new. Same when I buy my wife a purse or wallet

Told my (now ex husband) to unplug EVERYTHING, due to the severe thunder and lightning storm raging outside. (I was deployed to Iraq, 2003, at the time, and on a phone call with him) Next week when I called home, he admitted that he shouldda listened to me. Lost his TV, the game stations (yes, plural) the surge protector they were all pluged into, and almost lost his desktop (the ONE thig he did unplug) Old houses don't have the proper grounding that newer structures should have, so Don't trust them to a lightning strike 🤷🏻‍♀️ He learned that day, I tell ya 😂😂😂😂

You'll understand the storm anxiety when you realize that we Southerners are surrounded by large pine trees that are either shockingly resilient or weaker than toothpicks, depending on the season.

@wandamontgomery6030

Ай бұрын

My great grandma was struck and killed by lightning in the lower part of WV in the 50s.

@MariaMaria-sr8zg

Ай бұрын

Yep

@TheBaumcm

Ай бұрын

Northeast, upstate NY, and we said all of these.

@wolfoftheages

Ай бұрын

We just had to get rid of one of our big pine trees because it had been struck one too many times and was starting to lean towards the house. The second one has been struck more times than the first, but it's still standing tall. I'm obviously very careful around lightning, but I know enough to know what not to do and still feel safe. Tornadoes? I could know every existing fact known about tornadoes, and it wouldn't be enough for me to feel safe around them. I'll watch lightning or a hurricane from the back porch, but the second there's a twister watch, not even a warning, I've got the innermost closet stocked with a week of supplies for the humans and the cats (in case the house collapses around us) and all of the cats are in there with me with the big crate ready to be deployed. My mom thinks I'm crazy until the watch turns into a warning. Then she comes in too, lmao. I had a tornado pass within half a mile of my car while I was stuck on a backroad because of fallen trees. The sky was green, and I've never felt safe around tornadoes since. 😂 My therapist doesn't even care about that fear because he says it's not irrational. He grew up in Kansas, and he says being terrified of tornadoes is the only right response.

@zemenerrichey1980

Ай бұрын

@@wolfoftheages That sounds about right. Fear is definitely a great emotion to have. Imagine not being afraid a tornado and going in for a nice big lacerating hug lol.

I remember my Mamaw and Papaw rushing around the house unplugging stuff so we all didn't die.

@craigslater2321

Ай бұрын

My parents still do !

@jxchamb

Ай бұрын

I just love reliving my childhood with these comments.

@crimsondynasty6884

Ай бұрын

It was the longest before I could convince my mama that she didn't have to worry about an electrical storm when she was on her cell phone I said she's not connected to any wires anymore 😂

@jamescooley5744

Ай бұрын

Still wise if you don't have a surge protector-especially with high tech devices with delicate parts.

@lorireed8046

Ай бұрын

I remember being in the country and a storm was brewing. My oldest sister was dating a doctor (we were there for dinner) and he answered his phone (landline) he was shocked and thrown across the room. The same guy had a "sun/shower " area where this small room was just glass and opened to the elements. It was COOL (to me) But.... His whole room caught on fire when lightning hit inside that room! His home was amazing (1988) but holy moly the amount of times he saw these "old folk tales" come alive was just incredible. I liked the man and was sad my sister refused to marry him . He took care of my baby (I had no insurance and very young) as far as check ups and such. Taught me how to deal with colic and how to make her more comfortable. Showed me how to massage and strengthen her little body.

I think I was 8 when I got a Swiss army knife for Christmas with a penny taped to it. I gave the penny back to my grandparents to satisfy the ancients.

@tuvelat7302

Ай бұрын

I have never heard this one.

@franzraber273

Ай бұрын

@@tuvelat7302 Neither have I.

@Ech0Sierra

Ай бұрын

"Giving someone a knife will cut off the relationship so knives must be sold, not gifted"

@ritasmith9553

Ай бұрын

I love to give a good knife as a gift, and explain the penny! I don't really believe it, but it is fun and carrys on tradition! LOL!

@shadowkissed2370

Ай бұрын

@@Ech0Sierra Oh, I never heard that one but my husband's grandfather gave him a couple knives at once, and not long after that, their relationship ended 🤔.

As a born, bred, and raised southerner, I have heard this all my life.....all correct.

@GoldenBuddah1972

Ай бұрын

I know, right?

@mshammy1

Ай бұрын

I totally agree. Me too.

@STB-jh7od

Ай бұрын

What's the knife one?

@glee_again2594

Ай бұрын

Yes!!! Wasn’t born in south but raised in 3 southern states and I learned it, too! Raising my kids in the south with the same truths!😂

@leebahbrowning

Ай бұрын

Born and raised in the south. What’s with the knife?

Sooo relatable. I remember one time when my mom broke a dish and went ahead and broke two more. I asked her why. She said that things happen in three and just wanted it to be over with.

@lesilemccravy5172

Ай бұрын

That’s what my mom says,when someone dies

@GoldenBuddah1972

Ай бұрын

My best friend says that same thing!

@waitingforwings6

Ай бұрын

@@lesilemccravy5172 I just had two family members pass within a couple months of each other and I thought to myself today, it happens in threes, now I'm scared to see who might be next >.

@lesilemccravy5172

Ай бұрын

@@waitingforwings6 exactly my aunt died 5 years ago,four years later my nanny died,and then a year later my great uncle her brother died 63,87,and 79,crazy thing is my great uncle died,in the same month as my nanny October 20th and 17th

@faethe000

Ай бұрын

That's insane

"It's just a bunch of old wives' tales." "Yeah, but they didn't get to be 'old wives' by being about as sharp as a bowling ball! Although sometimes I wonder why we don't hear any 'old husbands' tales..."

@law685

Ай бұрын

Because they didn’t listen to the old wives😂😂😂

@paulmartin2348

Ай бұрын

The "old husbands" are not stupid.

@KC-ip3uz

Ай бұрын

Cause they died going outside to check on the thunderstorm or tornado……

@theTeslaFalcon

Ай бұрын

Women have a bigger tendency to gossip and let their imaginations run wild on them. In 1996 (pre-cell phone), I was chatting w my close friend after work. We talked about his personal life in the office, down the hall, and out into the parking lot. Once in our separate cars, the convo would end. So we stood there talking for an hour or more. When I finally got home, wife was crying and ready to call the police in panic that I died in the 2 miles between the office and our townhouse because I was late getting home from work. Today, my cell phone lets her get a hold of me so I can calm her fears, if not allay her annoyance when I get to talking for "too long".

@Lcshell

Ай бұрын

Because the wives were the ones telling the tales 😊

I'm a Brit - one side of the family is English, the other is Irish - and we share a *lot* of these superstitions... I'm going to guess that the people who emigrated from here to the US a few centuries back settled in the South 😂

@katiemarshall4032

21 күн бұрын

A lot of the accents typically thought of as “American Southern” have Anglo-Irish roots. People from the Appalachian Mountains speak with an accent that is a direct legacy from the Scots-Irish who began settling in the region in the 1700s.

He could do an hour skit on all the southern ways / beliefs . I cringed on the knife, that's a no no. Should have had on umbrella there too to open indoors 😅😅

@Lord9Genesis

Ай бұрын

The umbrella thing might even be too much for Matt's psyche to handle.

@RendezvousTribe

Ай бұрын

That one would have got me, the knife didn’t bother me. Only would have just given it back opened, always return it the way it was received. My family used knifes/watches as a change in relationship not a severance of one. Got a knife as a gift at 13 as a change from child to teenager with a greater responsibility and a watch at 18 to signify the change to being responsible for my own time now. Interesting to see this side though.

@mymy-gy5un

Ай бұрын

and a peacock feather

@kitsunelee007

Ай бұрын

Or wearing a hat indoors, hats on a table, or shoes on a chair.

@grondhero

Ай бұрын

Opening an umbrella indoors is just plain dumb. Like walking under a ladder. You don't have have it as a superstition to say "Okay, yeah, that's a bad idea."

My grandpa was at home after he had a stroke/ heart attack (doctors said they couldn't say which), a bird came down the chimney and kept trying to fly out a window. Problem was it was closed. My nanny(grandma) broke down crying, and here's me as a kid trying to get the bird out. He passed 2 wks later.

Lived next to funeral home as a kid, would swear by the 'death by threes' thing.

@zeusdarkgod7727

7 күн бұрын

Same! Watched an entire family pass within a year. When i lost my mom, just b4 that my bird and my dog. Will never rule out the death by three thing.

My husband and 14 year old had to have a "serious" conversation last week after our son closed a knife my husband opened. 😂

Southern & Midwestern Superstitions are the chain mail of social anxiety. You're gonna catch it...& you must pass it on.😂

@wmwho

Ай бұрын

Social Anxiety is best shared with friends. And enemies. And anyone else nearby.

@GenaGilder

Ай бұрын

Now that explains a lot because I’m a Midwesterner.

@ccbarr58

Ай бұрын

?

@Ecclectic_citcelccE

Ай бұрын

Yep, he caught it 😂😂🤞

@CESmith

Ай бұрын

How do you catch light weight medieval armor?

"I saw an owl" Omg, i am wheezing.

@shelaughs185

Ай бұрын

An owl lived in our neigbor's yard and I asked my husband to investigate just to make sure it wasn't going on about us!😂

@patchdavis35

Ай бұрын

I heard you were only in trouble if the owl "called your name".

I grew up in Alabama and only today did I learn about the knife rule. But it was Huntsville in the 60s, so all we had were slide rules.

@sharonbass6110

Ай бұрын

😂

@janmcguire5268

Ай бұрын

Good one!😂

Old southern gal here....I remember having to sit in the middle of a feather mattress with my mother and grandmother during thunderstorms because lighting supposedly would not strike you there.

@jenniferwagoner3134

Ай бұрын

Lord I miss my grandma's feather mattress!

@peacekeeper479

Ай бұрын

@@jenniferwagoner3134 Me too! And my Grandma.

@NanaBren

Ай бұрын

My grandma’s bed was so fluffy you literally had to climb the side to get in bed, then you would sink down almost a foot deep into it. God I miss that! 😢😅

@peacekeeper479

Ай бұрын

@@NanaBren I remember that so well. I suppose those memories will die with us. Those beds were the best.

@teresahiggs4896

Ай бұрын

@@jenniferwagoner3134oh my goodness, I do too. Nothing like sleeping in that thing, sinking into it, then ended covered up with about a dozen quilts …..cause grandma thought I might get cold when the fire died down in the wood stove. I thought I’d smother in that thing when I was young! But it will give you a great nights sleep!

My mom’s from Nebraska and thinks the same about owls 🦉 👀 I still don’t shower during a storm.

@beckyhobson3283

Ай бұрын

Or do dishes. But I think that one came from the fact that EVERYONE'S kitchen sinks, the ones with the metal rims, sat under a window!!

@NanaBren

Ай бұрын

You just don’t put nuthin’ in water that you want to keep.

@teresahiggs4896

Ай бұрын

I’m from East Tennessee in the Appalachian mountains, and there’s lots of beliefs about owls and ravens/ crows. The number of crows or ravens you see had a meaning….and if an owl was in a tree in your yard, crying every night, for three days , then somone in that house would die. Another belief is the number of cries the owl made determined how long it would be before the death. I think the Foxfire Book series listed a bunch of these beliefs. You should read those Foxfire Books, they tell amazing facts and stories about Applachia .

@NanaBren

Ай бұрын

I can’t remember what each number of crows signified. I need to look it up! ❤️

@Hellhounds2023

Ай бұрын

The not showering or doing dishes or anything water related during a Lighting Storm is totally real. The CDC has the risk listed on their website

Above all else, during a storm, RESPECT THE POLYGON!!!

I literally gasped when he INTENTIONALLY poured salt on the floor!!! 😂 I felt sooo much better (and I bet he did too) after he threw that salt over his shoulder. 😂😂😂😂😂

@katarh

Ай бұрын

Yeeeeeeeep I'm confused about the knife one, probably because no one ever handed me a knife with a folded blade. But the salt one had me bite me lip.

@Ok_Loren

12 күн бұрын

I was still worried bc he didn’t use the same salt that was already spilled on the floor.

44 years old and still will not close a knife someone else opened.

@NikkiCox81

Ай бұрын

That made me so nervous just watching it. 🤣

@michaelholt8590

Ай бұрын

@NikkiCox81 Yeah I was on edge for a few moments. 🤣

@fictionfan0

Ай бұрын

Am I the only one lost on that particular bit?

@michaelholt8590

Ай бұрын

@fictionfan0 In the old days it was considered bad luck to close a folding knife that was opened by someone else.

@ladybee883

Ай бұрын

michaelholt8590: My husband and I have a lot of years on you (70's) and we still won't do it. If he hands me his open pocket knife, I hand it back to him the same way. To add to that old superstition, he's afraid that I might cut myself because I do it so often.

Well, we definitely have storm anxiety. March of 2023, I was in bed when a tree limb came flying through the window inches from my husband's head. And we've ALL had that panicky weatherman hollering "TORNADO ON THE GROUND! IF YOU'RE IN (insert county) GET IN YOUR SAFE PLACE NOW!"

@cindy844

Ай бұрын

I just heard that earlier this week, for the county just west of mine.

@syndigriner-owens4351

Ай бұрын

Mr James Spann will tell you the roads and businesses in the area of the tornado, best weatherperson ever

@crimsondynasty6884

Ай бұрын

If you're in Alabama James Spann on 3340 will tell you if you're on "such and so" Road you better be in your safe place. That man has three phases. He comes in with his jacket buttoned up if things start getting hairy like thunderstorms he rolls up his if things start getting hairy like thunderstorms he rolls up his sleeves if things start getting hairy like thunderstorms he takes off his jacket. But when he rolls up his sleeves you know the crap fixing to hit the fan somewhere in Alabama and he will nail it right down to the street level.

@syndigriner-owens4351

Ай бұрын

@@crimsondynasty6884 and when he takes his suspenders off his shoulder we are all F-ed!!

@teresahiggs4896

Ай бұрын

Oh gosh yes! That panicky weather man yelling to “ get to shelter NOW! Tornado spotted on the ground! “ I swear I have PTSD from that!

Talking about thunderstorms. I grew up in the 60's and one time our house got struck by lightening 3 times in one night. No joke. It was crazy. It blew a hole in our water heater because it went through the pipes, also took the oven out, and, the most memorable, it hit the phone lines and electricity popped out of the phone and spark across the floor near my brother. That's a sight you don't forget. The fire department had to come. After that my parents put a lightening rod on our house to ground any strikes and we never got hit again. That was one crazy night.

@tapestry6455

Ай бұрын

The duplex next door got hit by lightning when we were living in Virginia. that CRACK sound you just never forget. it knocked all the pictures off their wall!

@arianekelly2633

Ай бұрын

Lighting will still hit the house. The purpose of the ground rod is to direct the strike far enough into the ground below you that it discharges safely undergound. Thus the term "grounding"

When I was young, if you bought a knife (or, like, a meat and cheese gift basket that had a knife) around Christmas there would be a penny already in the package so you could give it a a gift and they could give you back the penny.

I’m as northern as it gets and my Grandma was from Canada, and I still know all these to be true and terrifying. I can remember being little and seriously worrying about stepping on a crack and hurting my Mom somehow, and the salt over the Left shoulder, so important, open an umbrella inside, your just askin for it.

@tonyfrench2700

Ай бұрын

I'm 58 and I still try not to step on a crack (go listen to "House on fire" by Kansas)

@Ensign_Roque

Ай бұрын

We do the umbrella thing In Germany too 😅 Is the salt for keeping off evil?

We were given an electric knife from my in laws and they asked for a penny! 😅😂🤣

The knife stuff is the only thing I had to look up. The rest I remember hearing from my grandpa. Thanks papa I’m 40 years old and still can’t take a shower during a storm.

@thequixoticangler3364

Ай бұрын

Ya that's deep south and not well known. Never close an open knife that isn't yours. Had he taken the penny, it's different. Matt got that exactly right.

@jerrykinnin7941

Ай бұрын

That knife thing was in the Boy scouts as well. When handing someone an open knife. Pinch the blade between your thumb and "trigger"finger. Edge to the outside, handle facing the person your handing the knife to. You don't let the knife go till they have handle in hand, and say THANK YOU.

@thequixoticangler3364

Ай бұрын

@@jerrykinnin7941 yea. I knew I remembered being taught that somewhere. That's it. I was also taught this by my Dad about not returning a knife in an altered condition from when you received it.

I broke a mirror that belonged to my grandma and she told me about the eight years of bad luck......scared me to death!!😳

@Chris_Hood

Ай бұрын

EIGHT years?? All this time I had only heard *seven* for a broken mirror. Damn inflation coming for our closely held irrational beliefs!!

@NanaBren

Ай бұрын

Yep, I heard 7, but they charge extra for everything nowadays!

@queenbunnyfoofoo6112

Ай бұрын

I was brought up it was 7. Maybe inflation has hit bad luck too.

@grondhero

Ай бұрын

Only seven years, but that's because mirrors used to be only affordable for the wealthy and it could take _years_ to replace one for the everyday person.

@patchdavis35

Ай бұрын

From Stevie Wonder: "Thirteen-month-old baby broke the LOOKING GLASS (don't call it mirror), seven years of bad luck, good times in the past. . .

Omg! The knife/penny thing. Someone bought me a pocketknife once & I wouldn’t take it until I found a penny. And I’m a NJ girl 😂

I’m scared of the sharp popping lightning that hits about 4:30 every afternoon in Florida. It can be pouring but with rapid strikes and I will not touch an umbrella. I can totally related. Love your work Matt. You make me laugh every time. 😂

Storm related anxiety?! The day after, we had storms here in Southwest Tennessee. Nice job, Matt.

@busterkeaton1041

Ай бұрын

Honestly though, that's a weekly thing In the spring until summer comes to cook us all.

@MrsAlmaTrumble

Ай бұрын

@@busterkeaton1041 yes, agreed.

@rogerluna6743

Ай бұрын

Don't forget the pollen

@melindajohnson3394

Ай бұрын

No kidding, I live close to Mayfield and I still get twitchy.

@venator-fb7yy

Ай бұрын

As long as Waffle House is open then there's nothing to worry about. 👍

My aunties freak out if I set my purse down on the floor at church...lol

@dreabia4759

Ай бұрын

Bugs will crawl in and/or you will lose all your money….

@patchdavis35

Ай бұрын

I also terrified my boss (from Georgia) when I (from Florida) set my purse on the floor. I had never heard that one before.

All of this is absolutely true. I was taught the same exact same things, and I definitely have trust issues.

I remember when I was working at a fast food restaurant and this black woman swept a broom over my feet while she was sweeping. Then she got all upset saying I was never going to get married. Less than 6 months later I was married.

@punchkitten874

Ай бұрын

Had an Korean roommate once. She wouldn't sweep near anyone's feet lest they get 'swept away', never to be seen again. Edit: she was SOUTH Korean

The knife thing got me. He knew better. The shrink hadn't taken the penny. He never should have closed it.

I would avoid the cracks in the sidewalk, cause I was afraid of hurting my Mom😊

@LynyrdSkynyrd.4Ever

Ай бұрын

You were clearly a good and responsible child 😉

@RomyCats

Ай бұрын

As a kid, I too would sometimes avoid stepping on sidewalk cracks because of the saying, though to me it was more of a game, as I didn't believe it would really have an effect.

When he closed the knife, I was waiting for it 😂😂 I was expecting to hear a crash😂

@Latebird24

Ай бұрын

Me too. 😂

@HariSeldon913

Ай бұрын

I didn't even know the superstition before this skit. My wife absolutely cannot figure out how to close a locking knife.

@GoldenBuddah1972

Ай бұрын

@@HariSeldon913 I have one that my ex-boyfriend gave me. I don’t know what he was thinking. I’m a hazard to myself already. I’d damn near cut my hand off trying to close it.

@HariSeldon913

Ай бұрын

@@GoldenBuddah1972 Is that why he's your ex? 😼

@songsayswhat

Ай бұрын

It was just delayed until he walked outside holding metal.

This is an exact replay of my childhood! LOVE THIS!!!

Never heard of the closing of the knife superstition before

My grandmas may not have been southern ... but man all the slavic superstitions that I was raised with on both sides of the aisles ... so true.

Don't forget the going under ladders, opening umbrellas in buildings, black cats in your path and of course broken mirrors too. Lol

The lightning one was how I grew up. We would have to turn off the Nintendo and couldn't touch the controllers or phones or take a shower until the storm was over. If there was a tornado watch in the area, my mom would fill up the bathtub in case we lost power in need to flush the toilets because we had a well.

@tapestry6455

Ай бұрын

the filling the bathtub was always a good idea... when nothing will work at least you can flush!!!

My dad taught me the don't close a knife you didn't open thing. I have spent 43 years thinking he was crazy because nobody else had ever heard of it.... this is the first time i have seen anyone else has heard of it

@joanmacarthur7011

Ай бұрын

Grew up in Nova Scotia and we had our share of superstitions too. Again absolutely no opening an umbrella in a house, if a picture fell off the wall someone was probably going to Die soon and under no circumstances were you allowed to count the cars in a funeral Cortege (I got in Big trouble for doing that once). Plus you had to kiss your thumb if you saw one crow. I'm kinda embarrassed I still do some of these to this day. Just no point in taking chances, you know, right? Love your stuff BTW, Matt.

I was raised to believe that believing in superstitions is how the Devil gets ya

@trace9657

Ай бұрын

So was I, but those same people had their own superstitions. They just didn't call them that. Staying away from phones and cats during thunderstorms among them. Wind that blows leaves inside out brings rain....But Lord a mercy, do not get caught reading your horoscope.

In 2011, a lightning bolt took out two TVs and my washer and dryer. The same storm sent a lightning bolt through the roof of a house near mine, into its living room. Oh, and soon after we moved to our lake house in east Tennessee, young man was killed by lightning on our lake, as he was climbing on to a boat. Storms come up fast, and you don’t want to be stuck outside when there’s lightning. Or inside, on the phone.

I feel...so...exposed! Seriously, I am guilty of doing all of those things 😮😂

First time I've understood almost nothing in your video. Except for the trading the penny for the knife. Today I learned just how different the south is from New England.

@teresahiggs4896

Ай бұрын

Well ya all should come down South for a visit! You might never leave it’s so nice! Great food, friendly people, lots of odd little museums and things to see and do, and in the Deep South, we don’t get the nasty snow and ice that ya all get.

@jxchamb

Ай бұрын

@@teresahiggs4896 Oh I did. Back in August, I stated working for a company down in Columbia South Carolina but I'm remote. My boss had a Christmas party so I flew down for a couple of days. It blew me away how friendly the people are. I visited the office and complete strangers were hugging me and telling me their life story. Went bowling with my coworkers. It was a blast.

I do so many of these things without even thinking, and I'm alive because of it.

@brightonm218

Ай бұрын

How would you even know for sure....

I don't remember who told me this one but you never go out a door you didn't come in. Rocking an empty rocking chair was another one.

@pamela5250

Ай бұрын

I’ve heard both of those too.

Midwestners hear those noises they know what to do . Grab some beers and go watch the fun from the Front Porch! Ya don't go to the basement until the Twister hits the dirveway!

@Itsabeautifulday3201

Ай бұрын

Exactly!

@user-neo71665

Ай бұрын

Southern arky, we have twister and hurricane parties when they hit.

@erusseestelinya

Ай бұрын

That's assuming they come in the daylight... 😅

@Jaster832

Ай бұрын

I'm Texan, and most Texans and southerners consider us different things, but I've been around in the deep south and they do not have storm anxiety. Most of them have the attitude of grisled veterans that don't react unless they hear a siren, and now that those go off for straight-line winds over 60 mph they've started ignoring those, too.

@CantankerousDave

Ай бұрын

The old Tornado Watch Party.

Being a native from Oklahoma, the Owl myths go hard! I've heard all of these except the knife. 😂 It's funny how people cringed when he handed it to...himself.

@jamescooley5744

Ай бұрын

Probably passed down from the Native American folk-to hear an owl hoot means someone is going to die.

@NanaBren

Ай бұрын

Grandma said if you hear an owl hooting 3 nights it means a death in the family. I love owls, but if I hear one at night, my skin crawls.

I don't even carry a knife. If I can't open it with my keys or my teeth, it's not worth opening.

To this day I don't make funny faces out of fear my face will freeze like that.

@user-sq4qv1ql2q

Ай бұрын

LOL! My grandma use to tell me that because i was always acting goofy and making dumb faces. Southern Grandma's are just something else.

@craigslater2321

Ай бұрын

Don't do yard work in March, that's bad luck. Sitting to close to the TV will make you blind

@tapestry6455

Ай бұрын

@@user-sq4qv1ql2q hey we were in California and was told that.. they never lived in the south

These guys are a hoot! They have great chemistry.

Not just Southern. I'm from Norway. You do give a knife as a gift. They will always give you money as payment. Also, you never gift an empty wallet. As for lightning storm and landline ...I can say from personal experience, it is a bad idea, especially when you also happen to be touching the window to see how bad the storm is. You may end up flying across the room with a dead phone.

How do we reconcile the rule of avoiding windows during a storm with the absolute requirement that a Southern father stand on the porch observing the sky during a tornado warning (it strongly suggested that he have a cup of coffee in hand, but the latter is optional)?

@NanaBren

Ай бұрын

No windows on the porch, 🤪

Growing up in Alabama In the 70s (born in 65 ) I can confirm the lightning strike fear. When I was 6-7 I was in the bathtub which was cast iron, with brass drain pipes connected to cast iron plumbing that went down into the ground and straight out to the septic tank which was about 15-20 feet from a large Pecan tree. While I was in the tub my Granny knocked and told me to get out because it was lightning close by. Before I could get out, lightning hit the pecan tree. It knocked me out. I woke up on the floor because Granny had heard me fall back in the tub. Always listen to your Granny.

I remember asking why there was a penny in the box with a knife I got . Never encountered the open knife superstition before today.

Add Latino superstitions & you got ME! 👋🏻🙄🤦🏼‍♀️🤣

Oh Matt. Spot on! This video encompasses my Southern childhood trauma perfectly. 😂

My husbands grandma told him never sit on cold ground or he would get piles. 🤣

@tapestry6455

Ай бұрын

Yes you had to put a newspaper on the ground never sit on cement directly

@gloriaalex11

Ай бұрын

My grandpa said that and I didn't know what piles were at the time. I was like, piles of what?

@avalerie4467

8 күн бұрын

She wasn't making that up.

I can only trust very few people outside my family. Plus if there is one thing we know DON'T MESS WITH THE WAFFLE HOUSE!!

@user-cq7zd9zu4t

Ай бұрын

@D.M-m.e_The_Matt_Mitchell yes?

I remember as a kid trying to avoid bathtime once by trying to stall until a thunderstorm came

I remember years ago when I was a young kid staying with my grandparents while my mom was at work...storm came and a lighting strike popped one of the lamps...AND the nut on top that kept the shade on went flying off from the charge...scared the hell out of all 3 of us.

Oh, so I DON'T have severe OCD and paranoid schizophrenia, I'm just southern lmfao

A majority of the comments are about the knife, and that's NOT surprising. I'm a Texan, 56 yrs old, and I would never close an open knife that someone handed to me. Usually because knives close differently, and I'd prefer the owner to close the knife, BUT also because of the meaning that us Southerners were told by our grandparents. I think they just didn't want us kiddos cutting our fingers trying to close Papa's knife!

The storm thing: Yes, so, so much. Growing up, you did not take a bath or shower, use electronics or the phone, or stand near anything metal if it so much as grumbled. My Nana, may she rest in peace, would literally get in the car and drive to wherever felt safe. I once spent an entire afternoon in the K-Mart parking lot.

Hadn’t heard the knife one.

@ThinWhiteAxe

Ай бұрын

It's a superstition in Vietnam too. My mother is Vietnamese and they always have to pay some small change for the gift of a knife.

If a rabbit crosses in front of you, you and everyone in the car, or walking with you has to stop. You cannot move until everyone says, " How do mister rabbit?"

You're onto something good, keep it rolling

I am from Poland and we also pay at least a little coin for a gift of knife. And you don't give an empty wallet to someone. I heard about having red ears when someone is talking about you, but in my Grandma house they said that your butt itches when you are a part of someone's gossip

@sharonbass6110

Ай бұрын

That explains why my butt is raw.

@teresahiggs4896

Ай бұрын

That’s just awesome how we believe the same things. I think it’s because Americans ( except for the Native Americans) are all immigrants….Where I grew up in East Tennessee there was a lot of Scottish , Irish and Welsh people who settled there to dig coal from the many coal mines. Where my husband is from in Michigan, it was lots of Cornish people. So I’d bet America has beliefs from all over the world!

@tapestry6455

Ай бұрын

oh yeah my Mom would put a shiny penny in any wallet or purse she gifted.. I wondered bout that one!

@sharonbass6110

Ай бұрын

@@teresahiggs4896 Where in E TN are you from? I was born and bred in Chattanooga.

Never say you’re bored at work or that work is slow.

According to my family, I’m right-handed because my great-grandfather thought being left-handed was unlucky, and so anytime time he caught me using my left hand as a toddler he would smack my left hand and put whatever I was holding in my right. No idea if this is true, as I was too young to remember, but apparently that was a superstition back in the day too, according to my mom.

I remember back in the 90s there was a bad storm. Lighting hit an elderly couple's house and she happened to be on the potty. Her husband ran in and asked if she was ok. She said yes and keeled over. It was so sad. To this day I will hold it as long as I can during a storm lol. Have also lost a TV and had an electric charge (luckily small) zap me from a lightbulb. These people walking around with umbrellas in lightning storms...did their mama never tell them???

I hear my owls hooting every day at my beach. 😂🦉

It's interesting how some of these superstitions are similar to some of the Pagan superstitions too (ex. owls being a negative omen, cover a mirror/don't sleep in a room with a mirror in it, etc). Not all Pagans believe in these things though, but some do. Maybe it's because the superstitions still carried over even after many of our ancestors converted to Christianity or other belief structures? The knife ones were new to me, but many of the others were very familiar. Especially the thunderstorm ones and salt ones.

@heatherr4321

Ай бұрын

The owls as a bad omen iirc is linked to Indigenous American beliefs? Most pagans I know consider owls to be neutral, context is important.

The whole touching water in the shower, bath or even washing hands during the thunderstorm I got from my mom, but her mom was born in Germany just after world war II.

They are always expecting someone to stab them, so they stab first ...

My granny would always tell us to sit still and let the Lord do His work because He don’t need us in the way! Every TV would be off and only one small light would be on.

I was born in Ukraine, we have the same rules about gifting knives. You gotta give somekinda cash.

Holding your breath when you drive past a graveyard. I grew up in NH.

@patchdavis35

Ай бұрын

Or whistling past the graveyard.

Your grandparents did you right, Matt. I was raised in an Italian American family, and we had all the same anxieties and were taught absolutely NO tricks for getting rid of them. Imagine someone handing you the knife and then telling you that it didn't matter whether you closed it or not, you were equally f***ed either way. 😭

I grew up with a double whammy: most of my family is from the South, but my paternal grandmother immigrated from France and brought all her superstitions to add to the mix! Did y'all know something bad will happen during the week if you cut your nails on a Sunday? NOW YOU DO.

@teresahiggs4896

Ай бұрын

Oh I heard that too! You werent supposed to do certain things on Sunday…..or it would be bad luck or the devil would get you!

Matt is walking a thin line. The Grannies & Pappies will not be mocked. Pray for his soul, brothers & sisters. Pray...

Here's a funny thing -- I heard a crow outside my window when Matt first said "crow."

I didn’t get much out of this video, but at least I finally understand the phrase, “ you are not alone.” It’s because there are millions of other people who are alone too. So somehow they think we are all alone together.

My Great Great Aunt by marriage got killed by a lightning strike while standing at her kitchen sink.

Omg…the owl one is like, *_TOO TRUE,_* though!! It’s happened to me so many times now, that I actually have a note in my notes app called _”Owl Sightings,”_ with a list of dates-dates that correlate with… Well, you know. 😔😕😐 👌🏻Another _great_ ‘southern-life’ video!

"Well, I ain't superstitious, Black cat just crossed my trail."

Storm anxiety is legit! Also, it’s a hard NO on closing the knife😂

My heart skipped a beat when he said that 'death comes in threes' thing. In December, someone we knew of died, and I kept warning my mother and saying that there would be 2 more. And there were indeed two more... Plus, two other close calls with my dog and my mom. 2024 did not start off well.

My ears are burning! I- is that also a storm thing? No! It means somebody’s talking about me. Yeah. We are.

every single one of these I have done or still do, and a few others not mentioned I believe or do. not just hospitality we got southern spirituality baby!

I was like :you are not going to give him an open knife are you?" and then ya did and then ya wanted him to close it, in my 62 yrs I have more than once told someone to close a knife before they handed it to me and I inturn ensured the knife was closed when I gave it back to them. Even though I do believe in some of the things he was afraid of I was laughing through the whole video, THANKS!

My wife’s grandmother Effie would close the windows and the shades climb in the bed and made everyone cover up their head until the thunderstorm passed. She lived into her mid 90’s so apparently it worked! Something about a dish cloth, a Bible verse and rubbing it on the wart while reciting the Bible verse the bury the dish cloth, don’t tell anyone where it’s buried and the wart would disappear. Maw Effie also had pretty wartless hands right up to passing and no dishcloths!

Thank you for the phone reference. I remember being yelled at as a kid about that.

Southerner here- spent half my life at grandma’s house. When a thunderstorm came we all had to sit down and be quiet. The TV could not be on and you definitely did not go to the bathroom because there was water in there. I still throw salt over my shoulder and when someone dies, I tell people they’ll be two more deaths soon. These are all spot on. 😂

@henryturnerjr3857

Ай бұрын

Yes, we were told lightning was attracted to noise!😅

@NanaBren

Ай бұрын

I was a nurse for 20 years here in Arkansas. I completely believe that death comes in threes. If we had one Code Blue, 2 others followed within a day.