ashatami, navami and tuesdays

I can't stand it
I don't understand it
I am tiny tiny tiny fighting things that I cannot undersand
I hate it

grandmother and mother in law could write a treatise on ashtami, navami and tuesdays, how you shouldn't start things on these days.
their definition of starting things is so annoyingly flexible and all encompassing
it even extends to washing dishes for an event

then I have my mother and husband, who have learnt to accept all things without question
they don't ask questions. they are eager to comply. not matter how ridiculous it sounds, like don't wash ponggal things on a tuesday coz its a tuesday or its astamai, or navami

so stupid
I don't understand
I can't ask those closest to me coz they don't understand. but they are happy to follow. what do I call them? sheep?

I could ask my grandmother and mother in law
thing is, I wouldn't understand their explanations either.

so... smile, shrug and pretend these three days don't exist.