It might be a good idea to find a few pennies today - Friday the 13th. For a day so closely linked with superstition and bad luck, it was actually rather difficult to find someone in the Port City who was going to avoid black cats, ladders and other omens of bad luck today. That old black magic is losing its spell, it seems.
Today is just another day, the end of the workweek, to most people.
More than a dozen people responded that they had no superstitions, about Friday the 13th or any other day for that matter. Another added that she had undergone surgery that day. However, he added he doesn't like going out when there's a full moon. Studies have shown that a lot of people act weird when there is a full moon. When he worked as a bouncer at a bar, those nights were among the worst, he said.