A Superstition is by Definition an Excessively Credulous Belief In and For Supernatural Beings. Over the Thousands of Years as Humanity and Society Evolved into what We know Today People Developed a Particular Set of Superstitions. Some of those Token Superstitions include Don’t Let a Black Cat Cross Your Path, If You Break a Mirror You’ll have 7 Years Bad Luck, Don’t walk Under a Ladder, and Don’t Open an Umbrella Inside. One of the Best know Classic Superstition is Triskaidekaphobia, the Most Wide Spread Example of Triskaidekaphobia (or Arguable Any Superstition) is found in Buildings with Fifteen or More Floors.
This is one of those Oddities in One’s Life that though You have more than likely ridden in Your fair share of Elevators have probably Never even been Consciously were Aware of. All You have to do is the Next time You find Yourself in a Building consisting of 15 or More Floors watch the Numbers as the Elevator. You’ll see quite Simply that as the Numbers go up they Skip from the 12th Floor to the 14th Floor. The Point is Obviously that the Owner or Architect is Claiming that Allegedly the Building in fact Does Not have a Thirteenth Floor.
While this of Course is an Totally Outrageous and Physically Impossible Statement, BUT the Basic Psychiatry is There in the Out of Sight Out of Mind Principle. I for one feel that ts more of a Pavlov’s Dog type Deal. A Building Literally can Not Exist with a Missing Floor No matter the fucking Number. Its Not as if the Building Ascends to the 12th Floor and theres a Space Equivalent to an Entire Floor Missing, and The 14th Floor (and those above it) are Floating Inexplicable over the First 12. Thats what Sci Fi is for Completely Crazy and Absolutely Unrealistic Concepts Proving Life can be Stranger than Fiction.
Thanks for Reading,
By Les Sober