# People are a superstitious lot.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-are-a-superstitious-lot/549437>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 6, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-are-a-superstitious-lot/549437 "2010-08-06T18:47:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-are-a-superstitious-lot/549437/41 "2010-08-10T19:09:26Z")

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> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#):
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> Do buildings still skip the ‘13th’ floor? And if they do, are they really doing it for superstition at this point, or is it now more of a tradition?

Where I live in Winnipeg, if I have our bus route numbering system figured out correctly, routes 10-20 are ones that go from the suburbs through downtown and ending on the suburbs at another end of the city, 21-69 are just from the suburbs to downtown, 70-77 are crosstown routes avoiding downtown and 78-99 are routes that just stay in a particular suburb (some special routes are above 99 and below 10).

Anyways, reason I say that is that IMHO, the city desperately needs more of the 10-20 kind, but all the numbers are used up … except 13. Never has been used as a bus route number in the 30 years I’ve lived here. I’m sure it’s deliberate, but I run into far more fear of the number 666 than the number 13 (possibly because I go to an evangelical church) (there was even a news story once about 20 years ago about residents protesting a proposed 666- telephone exchange in the city (which happened to fall in the Bible Belt part of the city, where 665- and 667- numbers happen to be)

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