{"id":412,"date":"2006-11-01T20:15:21","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T02:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/?p=412"},"modified":"2006-11-02T20:16:06","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T02:16:06","slug":"r3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/412","title":{"rendered":"R3"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a tradition in my family to say “rabbit rabbit rabbit” on the first day of every month. To say this out loud is to bring good luck to yourself all month. I just did an online search, and found a Wikipedia article<\/a> on it. Huh. I think I liked it better when I thought my Grandpa Gasser invented it.<\/p>\n

Growing up, remembering to say R3 each month became a game, and like any game that involves siblings, it became a competition. Lena was always the constant winner, since she was always such an early riser.<\/p>\n

It started out as a monthly game – and as children a month is a really long time. In college it became an expected email “Subject: rabbit rabbit rabbit”. I would call my mom at work to say it. She would tell me if I was the first child to say it to her (this, and many other factors, led to being deemed “the golden child”, a post for another day). Once in college, I started lagging. I never woke up early enough.<\/p>\n

The whole thing got more complicated when I moved to Washington DC. I was a time zone ahead of everyone else. Mom made the rule that wherever the matriarch is be the time zone we play in. Fair enough.<\/p>\n

At one point, after we all had cell phones, I was sending text messages “r4bb1t r4bb1t r4bb1t”.<\/p>\n

Now it seems I’m forgetting more times than I remember. Perhaps it’s that the fierce sibling competition is gone. More likely, it seems time goes by a lot lot faster than it did when I was a child. The words are barely out of my mouth and the month is ending.<\/p>\n

I like the superstition (or game) of saying “rabbit rabbit rabbit” – I stop and consider that this is a new fresh 1 on the calendar, and contacting my family once a month doesn’t hurt. I even have a few friends who know, and don’t stare blankly at me when I all-of-a-sudden blurt out “Oh my gosh, right, it’s rabbit rabbit rabbit!” I’m definitely going to remember to say it, out loud, next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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