Just writing that, I hear the warning in my head go Dun-dun-dun-dunh... Before I get to the why that is let me fill you in on a few things. You know I used to live in Manhattan and while living there one gets used to elevators.
Skyscrapers and all that.
Well, when you get in one you notice there is no button for the 13th floor. There's 12 and then there's 14. No 13 button. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to realize that there actually is a 13th floor, it's just labeled 14. Who are they tricking?
Apparently they're trying to trick us.
They don't make Nightmare on Elm Street movies anymore but they made 12, count them, 12 Friday the 13th movies. A very popular and lucrative franchise. I bet if I said one name-Jason-most of you would know who I'm talking about.
I don't know about you but Friday the 13ths, the real ones, have always made me feel a bit uneasy, a bit hesitant. That's why I hear that soundtrack in my head.
When I was much younger a phrase I learned was, "Step on a crack and break your mother's back." So guess what I tried not to do on the sidewalk?
Who among us doesn't like a black cat crossing right in front of you? I mean cats are just cats, I'm a dog guy myself, but black cats crossing in front of me give me the willies. That's why I go out of my way to avoid them.
I've cringed my whole life when I break a mirror. It hasn't happened often but I always think of that seven years of bad luck thing.
I've picked up a penny, you know for good luck, and I try to never open an umbrella indoors because of... you know why.
Which leads me to a question.
What was the first superstition?
Legend has it that the ancient Egyptians thought that walking under a ladder was right up there for bad luck. They regarded a triangle as being special, see the Pyramids, and a ladder against a wall made a triangle. Ergo, 'don't walk under a ladder it's bad luck' came in to being.
Sigh. File that under WTMI-way too much information.
All I know is get ready here comes Friday the 13th. Again.
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