Friday the 13th an issue for you?

Absolutely not! I had a great day! Oh I have also walked under ladders many times over the years and I am still very much alive at the ripe old age of 78.

Ye who are afraid have been watching way too much TV and Hollywood movies.
 

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Last night I ironed the spearpoint collared shirt, the one that my wife made for me. It always makes an impression and often garners a compliment.
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This is the shirt. I had planned to wear it to a meeting today. Fat chance of that, it now has coffee all down the front of it. I tell you, profanities were created to give vent for such situations. I turned the air blue.
A bemused wife, standing at the bathroom door, just smiled, shrugged and reminded me that it's Friday the 13th.
Think I might go back to bed!
 
horseless carriage said:
Last night I ironed the spearpoint collared shirt, the one that my wife made for me. It always makes an impression and often garners a compliment.
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This is the shirt. I had planned to wear it to a meeting today. Fat chance of that, it now has coffee all down the front of it. I tell you, profanities were created to give vent for such situations. I turned the air blue.
A bemused wife, standing at the bathroom door, just smiled, shrugged and reminded me that it's Friday the 13th.
Think I might go back to bed!
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You ironed it? I couldnā€™t iron a hankie, if I had to and not gotten it wrinkled.

Is your jacket Searsucker?
 
In New York City, when I was living there, I realized that people who built or owned some buildings, weren't superstitious at all. There I was walking down 13th Street, and I passed by a building that had an address of 1313. Imagine that. Your address would be 1313 13th Street. I'd gladly live there if the rent was affordable. Actually it would have been 1313 West 13th Street. But I would have left the West out of my address, just to impress people more. :giggle:
 
911 said:
You ironed it? I couldnā€™t iron a hankie, if I had to and not gotten it wrinkled.

Is your jacket Searsucker?
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The jacket is a pin stripe blazer, definitely not searsucker. I have been ironing from the age of nine. That's how old I was, the eldest of four siblings, when my mother passed away aged 36. My siblings and I learned to be self-sufficient from a very young age.
 
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At dawn on Friday, October 13, 1307, scores of French Templars were simultaneously arrested by agents of King Philip, later to be tortured in locations such as the tower at Chinon, into admitting heresy and other sacrilegious offenses in the Order. Then they were put to death. Not all Templars were killed some escaped to Scotland and across the sea.
The Templars started the first banking system. King Philip of France owed them a lot of money and so did the pope, so it was to their best interest to have the Templars killed.

Facinating part of world history and there is so much more to it.
 
I'm not superstitious so Friday the 13th. means nothing to me.

Now the actual number 13 is bad, it's what I call a dirty number. When I had a business if a customer ordered 13 of something I would make 14 and either put one in stock or send it to the customer for free. I will never have 13 of anything, I'll throw one in the garbage before being stuck with that number.
 
Radrook said:
Only time that number became an issue was when my wife had been in labor for 12 hours and it was hoped that she could delay delivery until past midnight so that the baby wouldn't be born on Friday 13th. Of course I am sure that was the farthest thing from her mind.
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Our son was born Feb 13 , only I think it was a Monday. However he delights when his birthday falls on a Friday the 13. I am not worried nor concerned by Friday the 13. I don't know how it became such a bugaboo.
 
mrstime said:
Our son was born Feb 13 , only I think it was a Monday. However he delights when his birthday falls on a Friday the 13. I am not worried nor concerned by Friday the 13. I don't know how it became such a bugaboo.
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According to Wiki,
The Friday the 13th superstition stems from a combination of religious and cultural beliefs regarding both the number 13 and the day, Friday. The number 13 has been associated with bad luck in some cultures due to stories like the Last Supper in Christianity (where Judas, the betrayer, was the 13th guest) and Norse mythology (where Loki, the 13th guest, caused chaos at a banquet). Friday, on the other hand, is associated with negative events in the Bible, such as the crucifixion of Jesus. These two beliefs, when combined, created the superstition around Friday the 13th.
 

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