As an apprentice, I "helped" install a PBX (large office telephone system) for a man who was as superstitious as could be. No green in the office - the circuit boards were green. No "13"; he sent a truck back because its registration plate included 13. There was an endless list of superstitions, most Bible-based. There was one that drove my boss to distraction, but I forget what it was; something about the customer being a bit of a prick about everything except his own behavior? (If memory serves, I remember he had quite a porn stash as well. It was easily findable, I was 16 or 17... What more do you want?)
Anyway, I was reminded of that chap with this story about a Tennessee man who quit his job because his W2 (non-US readers: it's a wages and earnings statement you use for filing your tax returns)
was the six hundredth and sixty sixth one sent out.
So a note to all American paperwork providers: make sure that one particular number is never printed out. Consider it the 13th floor of
paperwork sequence numbers - it doesn't exist and as long as you know it doesn't, nobody need quit their job because of it. :-)
Carolyn Ann
I remember when I purchased my first cell phone... the girl at Verizon gave me a list of phone numbers that were readily available... most other customers had turned down these numbers because they included three sixes (not necessarily 666, but there were three sixes).
ReplyDeletePeople are funny like that.