Such boring details but the pool pump is under the house next to the washing machine. In order to get to the pump you must walk under the clothes line. Once our pool pump was broken and I saw the pool pump guys taking down the clothes line to bring in the new pump. I thought, “Well the pump isn’t that high that they need to do that, but whatever.” It didn’t really bother me and I gave it no more thought.
The other morning I put on some washing. The pool guy came and I moseyed down to the line to hang out my cleans. Line was down! What? It was up half an hour ago? There has been no wild winds or monkeys in my yard. I’m starting to doubt my knot tying skills. Then it clicks. I call on Miss Goggle and type ‘Thailand superstitions clothesline’. Bang! Superstitious Thai’s wont walk under clothes lines! Ok. So my self-declared title of ‘Bitching Reef Knottier’ still holds. I’m puzzled though why you wouldn’t then put that clothes line back up though after you’ve finished feeding your superstition? That’s just plain Thai laziness I suppose, nothing superstitious about that. This morning I was down at the clothes line and had just finished taking off the clothes. The pool guy comes down and stops at the line and looks at it very nervously. All I can manage in Thai is, “walk no can” with some pointing to the line. He nods a plea for me to untie the line. Superstition confirmed.