And, soda, that was very interesting about the 4's. Never noticed that before. I always kinda liked the number 4 -- nice round number, I thought! (Still do. Not a very superstitious person.
)And dearest tex, thank you for believing you'd miss me if I was gone! I stayed away a whole 3 hours after I realized how many posts I had!! heehee! I truly do need to scale back the amount of time I spend on the computer, period. Since I'm home most days, it's just too tempting not to jump on-line when I know all you interesting people are here! So curse you all for my problem!! If you weren't so darn much fun, I wouldn't spend so much time here!!!
OK ... so I have a kind of funny story about the whole number thing, except it's the number 3. My hubby is Vietnamese, and, apparently, in Vietnamese culture, 3 is an unlucky number. At our wedding, each time my mother-in-law saw only three people posing for a photo, she would run toward the photographer and group posing, yelling: "Three! Bad! Death!!" I thought we were going to have to pay our photographer extra --- you know, sort of like "hazard pay". As it was, he was pretty darn jumpy by the end of the day. Yes, truth often is much stranger than fiction --- or is that just in my world? 
I asked him: "Isn't she going to know you did that because it's a 13?" To which he replied .... "Yeah, but that's OK ... just so long as she can't see the 13."
), but when I find someone is completely overtaken with superstitions, I do "unlucky" things on purpose just to make them go crazy. Love black cats, walk under ladders, enjoy my Friday the 13ths, etc. Both my parents were born on the 13th (mom on a Friday the 13th) so I've always considered it quite lucky really, if you're into luck and superstition, which (obviously) I'm not. 
