Why Do People Let Superstitious Beliefs Rule Their Lives?
What is it about the number thirteen? Why are people so afraid of this number? I am not talking about some doomsday cranks here, I am talking about rational educated people. But few of these rational educated people want to live in a house numbered thirteen? In fact many large hotels and apartment blocks will not even have a thirteenth floor. The reality is of course they do have a floor that is the thirteenth but it where the room numbering is concerned each room will start with the number fourteen. Simply because no one wants to live or stay in a room that’s number starts with a thirteen! It always amazes me how normally sane, intelligent people, succumb to these superstitious beliefs! Add a Friday to number thirteen and things become even stranger. People will book the day off work so they can stay at home to try and avoid having an accident. Even stranger when you consider that most accidents happen in the home. If you ring up an airline company wanting to travel on Friday 13th you
