Same here. I actually like it, over being indifferent.
I like odd numbers better than even in general, as well—in the vague, asthetic sense.
I am a fan of 13.
It’s just a number. I can’t say I have strong feelings for or against it, really.
See, 13 doesn’t bug me, but 666 still does.
Not at all.
13 pisses me off. well, not the number itself, but people’s fear of it. I regularly encounter buildings with no thirteenth floor. Seriously, the buttons in the elevator skip from 12 to 14. How stupid is that?
Check out the picture here for an extreme example from China.
When I worked in NYC, to get to our office, you had to press 12A in the elevator, which was the floor directly between floor 12 and 14. Didn’t fool anybody, but I guess it looked better for superstitious people coming to our office.
I met my SO at a bar in Berlin that still exists - the name of the bar? Dreizehn (German word for 13). We have been together 31 years - or as you dyslexics would interpret as 13.
So, 13 has been a lucky number for me.
Dyslexics would interpret it as “We hvae bene toeghter 31 yaers” (poetic license)
Dyscalculics would intpret it as “We have been together 13 years.” Or in other cases, “officer, I have dyscalculia! I heard her say she was 51.”
I’m fine with 13. The numbers I don’t like are 5, 7, 11, and 213.
A pox on these stupid superstitions. Now we’ve got people building condos in Toronto that skip the 13th floor and floors with the number 4 in them. :rolleyes:
I kind of like it.
This may be a joke, I don’t know the Winchester Mystery House, but we were in an American hotel recently. No floor 13. I’ve never seen that in a hotel on this side of the Atlantic (although in fairness I haven’t exactly been looking, so maybe none of the ones over here have 13s either).
ETA: What’s the number 4 thing about?
4 sounds like “death” in many Asian languages.
Tetraphobia. Same link as post #47.
Whoa. Tetraphobia could really complicate your life.
Another born on the 13th baby here – I am well pleased with it! And in 2013, my birthday falls on a Friday, too.
Just to add, I’ll go out of my way to take '13’s if the opportunity presents itself; I had a chance to upgrade a flight from Philadelphia to Boston recently, and took row 13 – no one else wanted it, so I had the whole row to myself. I’ve also upgraded to row 13 on overseas flights to London and frequently have no one sat next to me – that’s awfully nice, because on my flights to Heathrow, Row 13 is in business class.
Japanese is the only one I can speak about. “shi” can be replaced by “yon.” I’m sure that’s part superstition, but it also reduces confusion, especially over the phone, etc. because 7 is “shichi.” That one can become “nana,” but I’m not aware of any superstitious reason for changing that.