Lengthy earlier than any of us had been born, 13 turned an unfortunate quantity. I bear in mind when accommodations and complete neighborhoods averted utilizing that ominous quantity as a result of they could not lease rooms or promote homes defiled with these digits.
I am undecided why. Googling in all probability would inform us, however since I’ve by no means purchased into this senseless superstition, I’ve by no means taken time to analysis it.
It did catch my consideration, although, when wacky calendar creator Jeff Kacirk recalled a bizarre “13” occasion that occurred 300 years in the past in…