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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom did the can/may correction too!  She was also a stickler for table manners, like napkin in lap, elbows off table, etc.  She definitely stabbed me in the elbow with a fork more than once when I leaned my elbow on the dinner table.

She is also SUPER Catholic, and would make us: say three Hail Marys before any long car trip and pray to St. Christoper (patron saint of travelers); pray to St. Vincent (patron saint of lost articles) to help us find any missing items, like a lost jacket; bless ourselves anytime we passed a Catholic church; and say a prayer any time we heard an ambulance siren.   Good times Mom![/quote]

My mom sprinkled our car with holy water, on top of the Hail Mary! I went to college an hour away, (lived on campus) and came home a lot. Every time I left to drive back to school, she'd come out with the little bottle of holy water. She gave me a little bottle and I kept it in my suitcase for decades (it's probably still in there in storage in my basement... I just have a different suitcase these days). I stopped going to church when I was 18, but I still like the superstition.

She's also big on burying St. Francis in the yard to sell a house. [/quote]

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