Triskaidekaphobia... A Fear of the #13

Do you have a fear of the number 13? I have a friend who's favorite number is 13. And I bet you couldn't guess a famous singer with the favorite number 13. If you knew my friend, you would know right away it's...

Taylor Swift.

I don’t know where my friend gets all of her information, but she has lots of facts about Taylor. She practically stalks her.

I thought that this would be a great to start off this year, 2013. So for all of you out there who have triskaidekaphobia, this will be an interesting year for you. Think about all the fun things that might be in store for you...

May the force be with you.

I sometimes have the weirdest inspirations for posts. Mainly, I get my ideas from my sister. She is always interesting in some random fact that makes for a good post. I got the ideas to blog about this fear because of what my sister got for Christmas. She got a huge book full of 5,000 awesome facts, as the title explains:

Courtesy of National Geographic Kids

The book contains facts about castles, spiders, words, etc. There are lots of different phobias in this book. One of the different phobias is about the fear of the number 13. I can understand why some people are afraid of this number. It has gotten a bad reputation. I thought it was a little odd that there was a word for that, but our society just loves to spend time looking for new words to create. But that’s what we do best. Go ‘merica.

So if you have a fear of the number 13, now you know that you have a lovely phobia named Triskaidekaphobia.

Thanks for reading, if there are any of you at all.