Pluggers by Rick McKee for October 29, 2021

Just asking, but does the superstition still work when your mother is passed on and you have a stepmother?

https://allpoetry.com/Lines-And-Squares

That sounds more like having OCD…

With my eyesight I can’t even see the durn cracks. I sit on one so why should I be worried about stepping on one? Besides, my mom died long ago so no worries about breaking her back.

And that is how the “Watch Your Step” sign was created ;-)

My Mom would tell me every time I shivered someone was walking on my grave site.

There must have been a matching band on it when I would go skiing.

or a dog named Verdell………

One is a plugger if one walks ANYwhere and withOUT a dog.

We do have sidewalks in our ‘new’ neighborhood, but the concrete they are made of was so weak that you can’t walk on them without hitting cracks.

Generally because the sidewalk sections have heaved up or sunken down and you might twist an ankle if you do.

Even though your mother is long dead!

Better to step ON them than to trip over them.

Ma is 91 and I still avoid stepping on cracks. Can’t be too careful at her age. ;)

I am almost 65 and, if I am not walking with anyone other than my daughter, I will make the effort not to step on cracks – at least where cracks are evenly spaced. I also count things like telephone poles, cars, livestock, houses, anything that is not TOO bunched together and only if I am bored. If I have my cell phone, then nothing gets counted. LOL

Or feel bad if you do.

Ah – doesn’t want to break him mother’s back. Well done, plugger.

As a child in the 50’s this was one of the nonsense rhymes we used skipping rope.“Step on a crack,You’ll break your mother’s back;Step on a lineYou’ll break your father’s spine. Step in a ditch,Your mother’s nose will itch;Step in the dirtYou’ll tear your father’s shirt.

I can’t say that I really take note unless the slabs are uneven. They often are here because of trees and a long-ago installation.

And break my mother’s back!!!!!!!!!! – horrifying!

What! And break my Mom’s back.