Friday the 13th, as stated above

I don’t do superstition at all, but if something went wrong today I’d still blame the date. So why isn’t it {any day of the week} on the 13th? That way we could have 12 unlucky days in one year. Which in my case would be great news, just think, only one day per calendar month when something goes tits up – wonderful…

We could also have:

• Manic Monday
• Tedious Tuesday
• Worrisome Wednesday
• Thoughtful Thursday (to reflect on what’s gone wrong on other days)
• Friday’s already taken care of
• Stressful Saturday
• Sunny Sunday??? Nope, not in this country. But we’ve got to break free be free of all this bad luck one day a week. However a mass exodus to sunnier climes for 24 hours would be too much HASSLE. Imagine the traffic, grid locked roads & fully LOCKED DOWN airports with no border control. Then there’s Manic Monday to ponder about while stood in a 4 mile queue… 

So where did this daft idea about it being unlucky come from? Well there’s lots of different theories about it from all over the world. Assurance (for the superstitious amidst us) is that because they’re all so different, not one of them is correct or real. So here’s 3 of my favourites:

If 13 people sit down to eat a meal together on Friday13th, one of them will snuff it within a year. (Should’ve steered clear of the frogs legs & rabbits eyes for goodness sake).

Then there’s the one about a famous Italian bloke who popped his clogs on a Friday the 13th in the late1890’s. (Advanced forensics showed he’d died of arsenic poisoning, the guy who found him was also the killer. But it couldn’t be proved because they hadn’t invented fingerprints yet).  

Friday is an unlucky day & 13 is an unlucky number. (So two negatives equals a positive. Then again, where does a Friday & the number 13 being unlucky in their own right come from?)

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Well, Chris & Sarah next door set off to warmer climes today, travelling round Europe for a month. Their original plan was to go off sailing for a month, but they’ve given up on that idea – good on them. There’s boats stuck all over the place round here…

Thought of the day: Should they have waited & set off on Sunny Sunday? Hmm.    

Did I mention it’s Friday 13th…?

Late Broken News: Ian the engineering genius has just been round to diagnose why we’ve got a dead bow thruster. It’s the solenoid & they don’t come cheap…

See, it’s all because it’s Friday the 13th, told you it was unlucky…