A Black Cat, CheckOut Lane and Traffic

Two cats are almost permanent residents of my backyard, one black and one brown. They are not mine but might have to say adopted as they spend more time at my place than at their owners. Recently they have started annoying my dh since he is afraid they might do "something" to his precious babies (read okra plants). They dont do anything seeming harmful. Atleast I thought to until very recently I started observing a trend.
On some days the black cat crosses my path as I step out of my house. Though I do not know much by the way of superstition, the black cat crossing one's path I think is not so good. I know how because long time back my MIL and I had made some ribbon pakoda for a relative and after packing the pakoda in bag we both stepped out of our house. Lo and behold a BLACK CAT crossed our path.Immediately my MIL panicked as asked us to go back into the house, sit for a few moments, drink water .Drowning Which I did dutifully ( read thats the only thing I might have done dutifully and further reading will explain!). As we sat for a few minutes my MIL asked me to open the pakoda packet and taste some and I did. As I was snacking she took some from my hand. My dh too has this habit. He will say no to a snack and when I sit and eat he will take from mine. Anyway we ate a little drank more water and stepped out. Again the BLACK CAT crossed our path. This time MIl was all irritated and I rushed in to continue the regimen before she got further upset. So we drank water, sat down and ate more pakoda from the same packed packet meant for relative. By now it was half way down in quantity. So after more water we stepped out and again, you guessed it the BLACK CAT crossed our paths. By now my MIL had lost all patience Witsendand was furious. She shooed the cat from where we stood. It looked over its shoulder at us but didnt seem to care much. I thought we didnt have to do the same process again but she said we are going in. By this time she also had to use the bathroom and afer sitting down and snacking some more she changed her mind and said we were not going out. Well we did end of finishing pakoda made for relative.
But I digress.:help So when I saw this black cat crossing my car I remembered all the instructions my MIL had given me. Needless to say I did not follow any of them. So I went to the supermarket. After finishing my shopping I went to the checkout lanes and was annoyed to see every one of them crowded. so I had to wait and wait and then I observed my lane seemed to move slower than other lanes. By the time I had come out of the shop I knew it had taken longer than normal and my mind jumped to the Black Cat crossing my path. As much as I tried to rationalise my mind clutched itself to the Black cat and its crossing my path and my MIL's dire warnings.
After that everytime it crossed my path I started to observe that I was completly slowed down in traffic. There would be a very old woman driving in front of me and I would be completely slowed for ever. I definetly knew there was a strong link between the cat and the traffic.
So yesterday my ds and I had to take some cookies we baked to a friends house. Well as we were stepping out the Black cat crossed my path again. Remembering the check out lanes and the slow traffic I told my son its not good that the Black Cat crossed our path so we came inside. He looked at me as if somethings seriously wrong with her but being the obedient son did not say much. :roll:
As soon as we came in I made us both sit down and have water and ofcourse opened the cookies to have a few. We then got ready to leave when It happened again. So we rushed inside and repeated our routine. By now ds thought this was some game and was very amused by it :biggrin2:and was in a greater rush than I to sit and eat cookies and drink water.
By the time we finished I had to goto , yes you guessed it, the bathroom and we called it off. Dh coming in thought it even more amusing and finished off the rest of the cookies. Now everytime I get ready to go out everyone makes fun of me and hide away all the cookies so I will not use the Cat as an excuse to come rushing in!! Dont you all agree that I did the right thing by coming in and sitting down and drinking water and eating cookies?

 

Sowpardear
I did not know a SUPERSTITION about sneezing.. really ?mg: is that both indoors and outdoors? interesting??

 

Mindi
Cats are sly creatures ???? hmmm.. interesting.. I think they are clean though.. You caught on right about me using them as an excuse.. absolutely.. though I dont need an excuse..:crazy