Which is your wedding finger?

I have always wondered why married people wear the wedding rings/wedding bands on their fourth finger. Why can't I wear my wedding band on my thumb or on any other finger? Why is the wedding ring worn on the fourth finger? Why? Why?

Well this mail I received recently suggested an answer to my questions.


The thumb represents your Parents.

The second (Index) finger represents your Siblings.

The middle finger represents your-Self.

The fourth (Ring) finger represents your Life Partner.

The Last (Little) finger represents your Children.

Now do this:

(1) Firstly, open your palms (face to face), bend the middle fingers and hold them together - back to back.

(2) Secondly, open and hold the remaining three fingers and the thumb - tip to tip shown below:

(3) Now, try to separate your thumbs (representing the parents) . . . they will open, because your parents are not destined to live with you lifelong, and have to leave you sooner or later.

(4) Please join your thumbs as before and separate your Index fingers (representing siblings). . . they will also open, because your brothers and sisters will have their own families and will have to lead their own separate lives.

(5) Now join the Index fingers and separate your Little fingers (representing your children). . . they will open too, because the children also will get married and settle down on their own some day.

(6) Finally, join your Little fingers, and try to separate your Ring fingers (representing your spouse). You will be surprised to see that you just CANNOT...

The reason is this - God Almighty, the author of marriage, said Husbands and Wives were made to remain together all their lives - through thick and thin!!

Isn't this a lovely theory?

Lucky Friday 13

Do you believe that whenever the 13th day of any months falls on a Friday its bad luck? Well I don't.

This myth has been on for so long, but thankfully, with a recent report published on the internet, Friday 13 is no longer considered as an unlucky day after all!

Unlucky for some? Dutch statisticians have established that Friday 13th, a date regarded in many countries as inauspicious, is actually safer than an average Friday.

A study published on Thursday by the Dutch Centre for Insurance Statistics (CVS) showed that fewer accidents and reports of fire and theft occur when the 13th of the month falls on a Friday than on other Fridays.

"I find it hard to believe that it is because people are preventatively more careful or just stay home, but statistically speaking, driving is a little bit safer on Friday 13th," CVS statistician Alex Hoen told the Verzekerd insurance magazine.

In the last two years, Dutch insurers received reports of an average 7,800 traffic accidents each Friday, the CVS study said. But the average figure when the 13th fell on a Friday was just 7,500.

There were also fewer incidents of fire and theft, although the average value of losses on Fridays 13th was slightly higher.

(Reporting by Tineke van der Struik; Editing by Catherine Evans)

Source: Yahoo News