| tuesday night scott, adam, and i were standing outside a bar making fun of society’s foibles when they got on the topic of the 13th floor being omitted from old buildings. for whatever reasons, i had not heard this before and was blown away by it. i can’t believe that at any time in history, a collective group of rational people who clearly are intelligent enough to build a hotel and start a business would fear some intangible thing like the number 13 SO much that they would have to skip 13 and go to 14 or relabel it 12a and 12b. its kind of equivalent to fearing the boogey man or a vengeful god. that being said, send us pictures of buildings which omit the 13th floor.
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My guess is that in most cases, it was not the people designing the building, but the retarded rabble that would eventually use it that demanded no elevator button for the 13th floor.