There Ought to be a Law
Well, here it is, Friday the Thirteenth. I don’t really know the frequency with which this comes up on average but it sure feels like we had to get through this just last month. Oh wait, God tells me that Friday the Thirteenth happens somewhat less than two times a year on average. I guess he’d be useful to have on the team when playing trivia games.
So anyway, I set up a ladder to walk under and then took the time to ask God about it. I asked him why Friday the Thirteenth was considered unlucky, and what he had to do with it. It was sort of like a minor variation on the old philosophical conundrum of why God allows evil to exist.
Anyway, I never really got an answer to why we consider that day unlucky. Instead God went off on something of a rant. He complained about calendars in general and suggested that we were just supposed to enjoy time and take things as they come. He didn’t want to hear about it when I tried to suggest that we really do need ways to plan for the future and to set reasonable time limits on contracts and such. He just complained that he had gone to great lengths to make calendars hard to implement. He made sure the year isn’t an even number of days. He even made sure it isn’t an even number of lunar cycles. And even if you take the simplification of 365 days in a year, well, 365’s prime factors are just 5 and 73 which doesn’t make for convenient anything unless you just want to deal with 5 day weeks and then have weeks as your only named subdivisions.
Of course, it would be pretty nice to have a two day weekend after just a three day week. Especially if we still had holidays.
Maybe we should write to our representatives in Congress.
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