but even this is a little strange.
(from USAToday)
It's Friday the 13th -- again
Today marks the third time this year the 13th has fallen on a Friday. That's the most possible in a year, and something that happens just once every 11 years or so. Fear of the 13th is called -- are you ready for this? --paraskavedekatriaphobia. It prompts millions of people to avoid travel, surgery and important business. Henry Ford, Napoleon and FDR had it, the Associated Press says. "FDR would not depart on a (train) trip on the 13th," said Thomas Fernsler, a University of Delaware mathematician who has studied the number enough to earn the moniker "Dr. 13." The former president would order the train to leave the station before midnight on the 12th or after midnight on the morning of the 14th. READ MORE
