I do the same. Don't walk under ladders and always change direction when I walk past an Oak tree. What with the magpie saluting, red trousers and charity muggers it usually takes me about 4 hours to get my paper of a morning.
Have you not heard of that, done it since I was a child. You see a magpie and you salute it accompanied by the word "Hello Mr Magpie, regards to the wife". Thought it was quite common?
Since seeing that website a year or so back whenever I see someone in red trousers I always, almost compulsively, mutter out loud to myself "Look at my ****ing red trousers. It's a compulsion alike to saluting magpies. However, there are far worse things a man can wear, why one only has to...