My building, 16 stories, has a 13th floor. The freight elevator has indicator lights that skip the 13th, so it’s off by one after the 12th floor.
Incidentally, many Swiss Air planes do not have a row 13. You wouldn’t want bad luck on a flight would you? May end up in the one row that crashes.
A lot of Swiss Mail vans have number plates that start with 666 (666 xxx). This is a little amusing, especially since the German name is ‘Die Post’.
A friend of mine once said something to the effect:
“Recent research has shown that cars with 666 in the registration plate are more likely to have accidents” (I can’t quote the rest of the sentence without risk of misrepresenting it, but it essentially went on to assert that this was proof of the existence of satan and the infallibility of scripture).
Good ol’ ‘recent research’ eh? My eyes rolled so far they nearly popped out of my arse.
My first job was on the 13th floor.
I’ve never been in an airplane where I’ve noticed a row numbered 13, and since I noticed it lacking I’ve been checking whenever I could. It just seemed so totally ridiculous, in this day and age, to omit the 13th row. And yet, every time I step on a plane, 14 follows 12.
I think that’s the reason. If buildings traditionally have no thirteenth floor, and you build one, you’ve nothing to gain by having one and possibly something to lose. Why rock the boat?
It’s so stupid to not number things correctly. Just because you don’t number the thirteenth floor or the thirteenth row “13” doesn’t change the fact that that is what it is.
What’s worse than believing that the number 13 is unlucky? Believing that you can outwit the bad luck by cleverly changing your numbering scheme. :rolleyes:
My office building goes from 12 to 14- and yes, that is stupid. In America, until the early 20th Century- 13 was considered to be a lucky and patriotic #, not an unlucky one.
The building I work in doesn’t have a 13th floor, but several other floors seem to be either missing or inaccessible. I think those floors are where the government does research into UFOs and mind control waves. Fnord.
I work on the 13th floor of The Merchandise Mart in Chicago.[/data point]
The Knights Templar are a truly tragic case. Their only crime was that King Philip “The Fair” of France owed a lot of money to them – so, to get out of his debts, he framed them for being “Mohammed worshippers” and had them executed as heretics.
I went on a cruise to Alaska on a Princess cruise ship, and there was no thirteenth deck. The elevator control pads and all the maps showed it going straight from Deck 12 to Deck 14.
“Airplane hits building! Seat row 13 wipes out the 13th storey! 666 dead!”
One Metropolitan Square in downtown St. Louis has a 13th story; it’s the headquarters of the RCGA, or Regional Chamber and Growth Association. I was there for an interview last week. (It’s a 40-odd story building, if I recall correctly.)
Ah yes, but the savvy superstitious will avoid the 14th floor for just this reason.
Is there still a 666 Lakeshore Drive? That was a well-known building when I lived in Chicago (shortly after the Fire)
Yup. And they had to meet the ADA requirements AND fit in the space alloted. Not always as moronically simple as it sounds, but it usually was.
My building has a thirteenth floor. The mailing address is 1313 M_____. The first phone number was 634-1313. There were 13 original staff members when it opened. I believe the first day of business was on a 13th, but I’m not sure.
My office building on Madison Ave, NYC has a 13th Floor. The elevators are always breaking down too, mostly from over use by the 13th floor tenant – a computer traning school. If the dot-com economy isn’t the tool of the devil – what is then?
Regarding the 666 address hijack, there is a famous building up the street – 666 Fifth Avenue, which had a penthouse restaurant called ‘Top of the Sixes’ (now closed). I recall hearing that in the 60’s or 70’s local newspapers reported that the owners were into devil worship. Just to drive the point home – the building has the numbers ‘666’ blazing in large red neon on the top floors.