Vitamins and Superstition

[cjsmith]

OK, let's get the teasing and the "You Should"s out of the way: I eat Flintstones chewable multivitamins. They're the "Complete" kind, the ones that aren't too too awful for adults. Done now? Good, here's my story.

I like the orange ones best. The red ones are distinctly mediocre, and I have never liked purple. (Yes, red and purple are flavors. Eat a berry and a grape, then eat something red or purple. Completely unrelated, I tell you. Red and purple are separate flavors in their own right.)

I've developed a little predictor of my day. I tip over the bottle and get a vitamin. If it's orange, which I like, I say I'll have a good day. If it's purple, which I dislike, I call it a gray day. If it's red, I'll have a Red-Letter Day, which could be good or bad but won't be boring.

There. I feel sure every single reader of this journal desperately needed to know that.

Comments

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

When Meredith was a kid she would do the same thing with cereal bowls that you do with vitamins! We had these melamine bowls that were white, pink and brown. Pink was the best -- if she got a pink one, she'd expect a very good day. White was in the middle -- that meant an "okay" day, not great but not awful. Brown was the bad color -- if she got a brown bowl, she was unhappy because it meant she would have a terrible day. At least occasionally it became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

She grew out of that, but she does still get children's chewable vitamins rather than taking vitamin pills -- and gets her calcium from Viactiv for the same reason!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

When Meredith was a kid she would do the same thing with cereal bowls that you do with vitamins!

*grin* Very few people have ever accused me of growing up. :-)

Meredith's predictor sounds adorable.

At least occasionally it became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I'm watching for that, actually, silly as it may sound. If I think I'm getting to that point, I'll have to break the association somehow.