Would you consider yourself a superstitious person? Most people don’t think they are but when questioned further the truth always comes out. Superstition comes in a number of forms but today I want to talk about the number 13. We are a technological people creating devices and accomplishments that boggle the mind. Why is it that there are no buildings in this country with a 13th floor. That fact is absolutely ridiculous for a modern country leading the world in so many areas. Here are some other examples of how stupid and superstitious we really are.

• The fear of the number 13 or “triskaidekaphobia” seems to have been around a long time. Viking mythology claims thirteen guests were seated at Loki’s Valhalla feast. Also, there were thirteen attendees at the Last Supper.

• Friday is also considered an unlucky because it was day of the crucifixion. It is claimed that Adam and Eve also ate the forbidden fruit on a Friday. That would surely make Friday the 13th a double whammy.

• Winston Churchill, former British prime minister, never traveled on a Friday the 13th unless absolutely necessary.

• Graham Chapman of Monty Python fame arranged to be buried on the 13th hour of Friday, October 13th, 1989.

• Benny Goodman and former vice-president Hubert Humphrey died on Friday the 13th.

• Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.

• On March 13, 1992, a violent earthquake in Turkey killed more than a thousand people.

• In 1972 on a Friday, a plane crashed in the Andes without food and water compelling the survivors to turn to cannibalism to stay alive.

• On Friday, October 13, 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the arrest and torture of all members of the Knights Templar on charges of heresy.

• German bombs hit Buckingham Palace on Friday, September 13th, 1940, during World War II.

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T.G.I.F.