Why is there no Floor 13 in many office buildings?

Posted by Tracy Coenen on September 25, 2007 · 3 Comments 

I think it gives a false sense of security to those on the “14th Floor.” They’re really on 13, but they just don’t know it. Isn’t that a bit unfair to them? They won’t even be expecting the troubles from being on unlucky 13.


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3 Responses to “Why is there no Floor 13 in many office buildings?”
  1. Mitch Hedberg says:
    25 September 2007 at 12:28 pm

    “I’m staying at a hotel and it doesn’t have a 13th floor ’cause of superstition. But c’mon, people on the fourteenth floor, you know what floor you’re really on. If you jump out of the fourteenth floor window hoping to kill yourself, you will die earlier.”

  2. Rev. Mark J. Seydel says:
    25 September 2007 at 9:48 pm

    I always loved this one! What’s even a bit more weird is the fact that, prior to Christianity, the number 13 was a “lucky number”. Go figure………..

  3. anon says:
    26 September 2007 at 9:12 pm

    residential buildings in NYC usually skip floor 13 as well

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