It was Friday 13th yesterday

[Andy Hamilton]

Well another Friday 13th has passed and apart from getting a letter from the student loan company telling me I still owe them a shed load of money nothing that bad really happened.

Did it for you?

Mind you is it really the case that when normal stuff happens we can make a bigger deal of it on Friday 13th? For example, spilling a cup of tea suddenly becomes bad luck, when normally we would just mop it up and think nothing more about it.

[marshlander]

Useless information; paraskevidekatriaphobia is fear of Friday 13th!

OH spent half the day in the attic and didn't fall through the ceiling - if I'd known the date I'd have been worried!

[Ratty]

Well another Friday 13th has passed and apart from getting a letter from the student loan company telling me I still owe them a shed load of money nothing that bad really happened.

But its not REAL money Mine & OH's student loans look scary (plus I'm about to return to Uni this October!) but we figure we'll never earn enough to pay them back

Nothing much happened yesterday, usual collection of bumps & scrapes all round. It was a lucky day more than anything because we discovered a very friendly source of well-rotted horse manure and had a downpour which refilled the water butts & meant I didn't have to water the garden last night!

[Russian Doll]

yep i know and all i had yesreday was bad news from the council and the kids screamed all day

[hamster]

Nope. Today I have a hangover, but yesterday was fun...

[Lady Willow]

Don't listen to all the bad press .... 13 is a lovely lucky number

[mrsflibble]

I threw my back out. stupid joints.

[the.fee.fairy]

Nothing unlucky here!


I think i negated it by buying new shoes. New shooes always have to be lucky!

[AXJ]

It was?

That explains... nutten

no pasa nada quí, I don't think it is unlucky in Spain, I don't know if one exports the possibility of bad luck from country of origin or if one is supposed to adopt the native version, I think that the bad day is considered to be Tuesday 13th in Spain, but not in Portugal.

For what it is worth, over a 400 year cycle of our calendar the 13th day of the month is very marginally more likely to fall on a Friday. Of the 4800 13ths over 400 years, Sunday 687 times, Monday 685, Tuesday 685, Wednesday 687, Thursday 684, Friday 688, and Saturday 684.

So therefore, if something bad is going to happen to you, it is infintessimally more likely to happen on Friday 13th than Tuesday 13th.

So I stick with the Spanish model. They choose Tuesday as it is Martes, named after Mars the God of War (and therefore I imagine conflict), the 13th for the same (so I understand) reason as all the other Christian versions, due to Judas etc.

In the Basque Country 13 is considered to be a lucky number, probably due to the extreme in breeding and the odd extra thumb or toe popping out.

[Flo]

I celebrated four years of living in a social housing association flat that has been a disaster for most of the time I've been here with everything from rat and slug infestation to rotten floor joists and periodic leaks from central heating in flat upstairs to mention a few.

Friday 13th was a good day - there were no outstanding repairs and nothing obviously due to disintegrate.

Saying that, place was not built for council to council standards and I moved in knowing there were problems rather than take time living on the street.

[Wombat]

Nah! No worries over here!

Nev

[Birdie Wife]

Hmm, not superstitious here I'm afraid! I've been cutting rowan today, me and OH buy each other knives for birthdays and Christmas (mostly for cooking and fishing/filleting) etc etc. gues I'm just no fun

[andyt]

I'd forgotten, until i tripped over a black cat,as we both passed under a ladder,causing me to drop my mirror,which shattered.Nope,nothing out of the ordinary here either.