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The automobile has had a major impact on modern society causing different customs and traditions to be developed as a result. See if you know of any of these. Here are a few of them.

Some drivers believe that a new car is in greater danger than a used car of getting into an accident or having a collision.

Drivers will leave change under their seats and use one coin to scratch the car. This is based on the belief that since the car is new and nothing has happened to it yet, the chances of something bad happening to the car is greater when compared to a used car which already has its fair share of dents and scratches. In hopes of preventing a high damaging accident, they will place a small nick or scratch on the car in an area where it will not be seen. The inside of the wheel well is one commonly scratched area.

There are also a few practices associated with graduations.

In the days leading up to a graduation, some drivers (and in some cases friends of the driver) will write on the car windows with washable paint. The messages usually congratulate the driver of the car and list the driver’s school and year of graduation.

After graduating from high school or college, some drivers choose to hang their tassel from the rearview mirror.

Some people throw change under a bed in hopes of bringing good luck to the new home. Change is known world wide as a good luck charm.

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A frequent wedding tradition in the United States involves the decoration of the vehicle the bride and groom drive take at the conclusion of the wedding ceremony. Typically, various ribbons and streamers are attached, and words written upon the surface of the vehicle, and often tin cans are attached to its fenders or bumpers by strings to serve as noisemakers.

There is a practice in New Jersey and New York of tossing a few coins onto the floor of a newly purchased car as a sign of good luck.

Hanging a St. Christopher medallion or rosary beads from the rear-view mirror helps to ward of accidents

The best known racing superstition is an aversion to green cars, which are said to be particularly accident prone, even homicidal.

A clean car runs better.

It’s good luck to have bird poop on car.

Buy your gas in the morning when it’s colder and denser.

If a white dove flies at the windsheild of your car someone in your household will die a natural death soon.

If you count the cars of a passenger train, you will hear of a death.

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Here are a few questions about days of the week superstitions as submitted to Yahoo Answers.

Questions about Days of Week Superstitions

Linda asks…

What does it mean if you were born on Thursday?

I know there are like, superstitions about the day of the week that you were born on, but I don’t know what Thursday is, and I was born on Thursday.

Suzi Q answers:

Monday’s child is fair of face,
Tuesday’s child is full of grace,
Wednesday’s child is full of woe,
Thursday’s child has far to go,
Friday’s child is loving and giving,
Saturday’s child works hard for a living,
But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day
Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.

William asks…

what does it mean if you were born on tuesday?

I know there are like, superstitions about the day of the week that you were born on, but I don’t know what Tuesday is, and I was born on Tuesday.

Suzi Q answers:

Monday’s child is fair of face
Tuesday’s child is full of grace
Wednesday’s child is full of woe
Thursday’s child has far to go
Friday’s child is loving and giving
Saturday’s child works hard for a living
But the child born on the Sabbath day
is bonny and blithe, good and gay*

*gay here meaning happy.

Actually none of these mean anything, just a fun poem.

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