Friday the 13th is an unlucky day. Some believe this superstition comes from the Last Supper when there were 13 people present the day before Jesus's crucifixion on Good Friday. Others think it stems from the 14th century when hundreds of the Knights Templar were arrested in France on Friday 13th. It is now a firmly embedded superstition and even has its own phobia name - paraskavedekatriaphobia. In fact, flights are much cheaper on Friday 13th because people don't want to fly on the unluckiest day of the year and it's cheaper to get married too! While in France, the French hope to get lucky with the traditional Friday 13th lottery draw.
A Anxiety Cat post.
Your boss messages "Can we have a quick chat later?" with no time. You spend the afternoon updating your CV, drafting a farewell email and mentally selling the car. It was about the Christmas party. The phone rings. Unknown number. You watch it ring out as if it were a wasp on the table. Then you spend twenty minutes googling the number. Four cars ahead of you at the drive-through. You rehearse "cheeseburger meal, no pickles, Coke" all four cars. At the window you say "yes please" to a question nobody asked. Your food in the restaurant is wrong. You eat it. When the waiter asks if everything's all right, you say "lovely, thank you", and tip extra for the experience. **Why it caught on:** the wide-eyed black cat first went round on a demotivational poster from about 2007, "What has been seen cannot be unseen", and became Anxiety Cat on Meme Generator in 2011. It said out loud the tiny private panics everyone thought were theirs alone.