Friday the 13

Hahaha, I checked in for my flight to Adobe MAX and United does not have a Row 13!

I love 13! It's always been my number in sports I have played and to this day is my favourite number.

I am not superstitious… Because it brings misfortune.

I'm not superstitious but my mom always claimed that bad things happened to her on Friday the 13th.  We didn't put much stock into it until this happened.

One Friday the 13th my mom was driving home from the store when her car was suddenly broad sided by a driver-less vehicle.   Evidently, the phantom car had been parked on blocks for 6 months while the owner was making repairs to it.  On that fateful day however, the parking break slipped, the car rolled off its blocks, down an alley and onto the street at the precise moment she was passing by.  Weird, huh?

No problem here... have already been out grocery shopping (Friday specials at Safeway) and someone due in about an hour to (hopefully) buy some duplicate tools I put on Craigslist (wife and I combined garages AND moved into a new house with less combined space, so selling the extras) and then later I go to Home Depot to get some building supplies... and I don't expect any problems at all

I don't do anything differently, but I do remember a Friday the 13th many years back because I was in a car accident that day and exactly one week later was hit again in the same vehicle.  Fortunately, there were no injuries in either accident and the other driver was at fault and ticketed in both cases.  The second driver's insurance even paid for a rental vehicle for me while mine was in the shop for repairs.

Oh, and it was my brother's birthday that Friday the 13th, too.

Weird as it may be I love the number 13 and have always wondered why people are afraid of Friday the 13th. Surely with all of the catastrophic events happening on insignificant dates it isn't rational.