Free Range by Bill Whitehead for April 22, 2023

“Concrete” evidence this is no lame superstition!

Children can be such a pain, no matter how old they are.

She’s a crack navigator.

So that old saying does work.

Must be one of those voodoo sidewalks.

When I was a kid I stepped on the cracks on purpose whenever I was mad at my mother. She never had a back problem as far as I know.

It can be “fun” when walking by yourself to figure out what length of stride it takes to either hit or miss the cracks.

I need another covfefe! I didn’t get it until I started reading the comments.

This is why all moms had bad backs as the got older.

Silly myths and wife’s tales, but some still adhere to them!

I never considered the sidewalk separations as ‘cracks’. i believe only a real crack will suffice.

Step in a ditch, mom’s nose will itch.

What a wicked sense of humor that mother has!

Very funny, I haven’t heard that ditty in decades, actually in over more than half a century…

Dang, never worked for me.

The poor daughter’s been hittin’ the crack pretty hard lately.

Great. Now I have Devo playing in my head.

My Mom had osteoporosis. She caught a cold that made her cough deeply. A vertebra cracked (hairline) during a deep cough. She could not get out of bed easily. She was in tears, from the pain and the fear that it was lung cancer. She prayed that if she could just continue to live she would quit smoking. She went cold turkey then and there (& had no cancer.)

As she relayed the story to my husband and me the next day, he started laughing. He said he’d wondered what I was doing the other day. He thought I’d lost my mind dancing on the sidewalks. Now he figured out I was trying to step on the cracks! Good thing I love him, lying like that to my Mom! ;-)

Stepping on section lines in concrete is not stepping on cracks.