{"id":621,"date":"2008-08-02T05:14:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T10:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=621"},"modified":"2008-08-02T05:14:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T10:14:26","slug":"hop-three-times-and-twirl-before-typing-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/621","title":{"rendered":"Hop Three Times and Twirl Before Typing This"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you believe you’re playing well because you’re getting laid, or because you’re not getting laid, or because you wear women’s underwear, then you ARE!<\/em> Crash Davis<\/p>\n

The Quirkbook<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMaking a list of superstitions \/ foolish consistencies \/ lightweight OCD behaviors e.g. I always put my RIGHT shoe on first. You?\u201d
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\n\u201cIn what order shall I put my gear on? What is practical? What feels right? You know, I like putting my right skate on first. I can\u2019t tell you why, but the order feels important. Right skate, then left.\u201d<\/p>\n

We killed them. 9-3. Sure, they started by playing half their game because they were already in the playoffs, but after I scored that hat trick in the first period, they woke up. We slapped them around for another two periods. It was glorious.<\/p>\n

I credit the skates. No, I credit the skate application process.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s that story that goes through my head each morning as I stare down. I remember deciding to care about how I put things on my feet. It\u2019s a silly superstitious quirk transformed into an unavoidable daily routine and that\u2019s why I twittered it. I wanted to know who else was saddled with these foolish consistencies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There seems to be a strong tie between superstition<\/del> “ritual” and sports.<\/p>\n

I have a mild OCD about the iron. I almost always double-check that it’s off and unplugged before going out, because it’s one of those mindless “routine” things that you’ll falsely remember doing. Even if you didn’t do it today<\/em>, you might paste in the memory of any of the other hundreds of times you’ve done it. (And by “you” I mean “I”)<\/p>\n

I don’t think things like “wiring the + wire to the + lead and \u2014 to \u2014” or “don’t lick the high-voltage connection” count as superstition.<\/p>\n

I’ve known women who had to sleep on a particular side of the bed, so any impulse I might have had for this OCD has vanished \u2014 it’s not a battle worth fighting. (You’re in bed with her. Wrong time and place to pick a fight.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you believe you’re playing well because you’re getting laid, or because you’re not getting laid, or because you wear women’s underwear, then you ARE! Crash Davis The Quirkbook \u201cMaking a list of superstitions \/ foolish consistencies \/ lightweight OCD … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47,51,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-science-y-observation","category-silly","category-tmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}