Aug 29 2009
#13 Does A Matter
Is there anybody paying attention to something odd at the picture above? It’s just an ordinary picture, but if you’re correct, you’ll know what I mean.
I captured it as I traveled by aircraft a few days ago. I was jumpy in the plane (no, I’m not aerophobic! I’m just afraid that my body wash in the baggage is poured and wet the luggage, LOL..), I looked at the cabin baggage above the passenger seats. Then I got astonished. Wait a minute, why does the #12 skip to the #14?
I looked at the seats behind, then the seats at the front. No, it’s all sorted in order by numbers. There were the #15, the #16, the #17, and so on. There were #11, the #10, the #9, and so on. But there’s no seat #13. This aircraft didn’t have seat no. 13.
Why? Does the number contain a bad luck? Will anybody who seat in the seat #13 get any bad luck? Dying in the aircraft, probably? Hey, does anybody know on which seat number that placed by Munir who died in the aircraft several years ago?
I remember the last office which I used to work at. It places at 31 Samudera Street. First time I got there, I almost got lost. I was in the right direction at Samudera Street, but I couldn’t find a building no. 31. I found a building #12, a building #17, and I thought my journey along the lane was still far to go. Then I stopped at a building, and I asked an officer inside, “Where is the Port Health Office?”
Then the officer said, “You passed it by, Ma’am. The office is right before this building.”
Then I realized that I’d just passed it by. The office where I was gonna work at, was placed at the building #12. I wrinkled. Why did they place the building #31 at the front of the building #12?
A few months after I worked there, the staff of my office told me the story. When the office had just been founded, the original address was at 13 Samudera Street. But the office chief assumed that the #13 was a bad luck number, so the turned around the number board became #31 Samudera Street. And even they wrote in their letter copes, that the office address was 31 Samudera Street.
Gosh. No wonder I got lost in the first day. They intended to mess up the address, LOL..
Is the 13 number really bad, and it prevents my office to use the number as its address, and it even prevents the aircraft to sign its seat as the #13? I think it’s just a stupid superstitious thing.But the office and the aircraft won’t seem account the risk of using #13. They probably agree to act professional, but they don’t wanna mess up with superstitious.
Have you got any problem with #13?
