# Anyone superstitious about Friday the 13th? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 13, 2015, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549 "2015-02-13T07:09:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549/1 "2015-02-13T07:09:00Z")
A timely question. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549/2 "2015-02-13T07:34:42Z")
Strangely enough, Friday the 13th usually seems to be my lucky day. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549/3 "2015-02-13T11:05:50Z")
I don’t think I have any superstitions. I do occasionally notice coincidences that some people would consider to be omens, but, no, it’s just another day. I did get a kick out the the old Pogo comic strip when they’d declare “Friday the 13th came on Tuesday this month!!” I say that once in a while, but people just don’t get it. Dadgum whippersnappers! ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549/4 "2015-02-13T13:03:08Z")
What? I am not superstitious but I do make it a habit to take a prehistoric creature to lunch on every Friday the 13th. Tradition!! ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549/5 "2015-02-13T13:19:18Z")
One time I had $6.66 in an online account on a Friday the 13th. I thought it was amusing rather than scary. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549/6 "2015-02-13T13:20:13Z")
I often do not know the date. When the 13th is a Friday it helps. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549/7 "2015-02-13T13:29:08Z")
Right. Like there aren’t enough real things to worry about. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549/8 "2015-02-13T13:56:37Z")
[Churchy LaFemme](http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/churchy-lafemmes-friday-the-13th.html), of course. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549/9 "2015-02-13T14:03:23Z")
I don’t even use the Internet on Friday the 13th. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549/10 "2015-02-13T14:18:27Z")
I am not superstitious about anything, and don’t really get people who are. At all. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549/11 "2015-02-13T14:21:02Z")
No but it’s prehistoric creatures day so put your dinosaurs on your desk! ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549/12 "2015-02-13T14:58:41Z")
No. I also used to own two black cats. On Friday the 13th, I’d put up a ladder and walk under it just to hit the “bad luck” trifecta. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549/13 "2015-02-13T14:59:56Z")
Trivia question, and no fair googling for it: What is the maximum and minimum number of Friday 13ths any year can have (modern calendar, not Babylonian or Mayan)? Maximum: 3, Minimum: 1. It is possible to have 2. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549/14 "2015-02-13T15:47:37Z")
For some reason, I just like the juxtaposition of Friday the 13th immediately being followed by Valentine’s Day this year: the supposedly unluckiest day of the year being followed by the supposedly most romantic day of the year. There’s an idea for a high concept rom-com in there somewhere. I just know it. ---
**Author:** ![mage-girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mage-girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mage-girl)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549/15 "2015-02-13T16:42:18Z")
My mom told me to stay inside today. :dubious: I didn’t have any appointments for today, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549/16 "2015-02-13T17:01:52Z")
[Happy Holiday!!](http://i681.photobucket.com/albums/vv174/kayaker01/friday3_zpso3vz7s9h.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549/17 "2015-02-13T17:19:39Z")
I used to love Friday the 13th, because you could count on the USA Network to have a couple of _Friday the 13th_ slasher movies on that night. Then they stopped, and it became just another day for me. Now I don’t even have cable anymore. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549/18 "2015-02-13T17:26:58Z")
I got my degree at El Camino College in Torrance, CA, on June 13, 1986–a Friday. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549/19 "2015-02-13T18:17:46Z")
Well, my husband was fired from a good job on a Friday the 13th, in 1999. So there’s that. But his subsequent job search took us up to Silicon Valley, which I love. We wouldn’t have come here without that firing, so there’s that too. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549/20 "2015-02-13T18:45:15Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > I got my degree at El Camino College in Torrance, CA, on June 13, 1986–a Friday. 🙂 [Your Alma mater?](http://image.motortrend.com/f/classic/features/12q1_1968_1972_chevrolet_el_camino_buyers_guide/46099854/chevrolet-el-camino-side.jpg)😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-superstitious-about-friday-the-13th/712549.md?page=2)