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Friday The 13th Memes To Get You Through The Day

by Jessica Learish

November 13, 2015

For the third time this calendar year, it's Friday the 13th, so if you need a break from the rampant superstition on your newsfeeds, you'll probably want to quit the Internet for the day. But Friday the 13th (again) doesn't have to be all doom and gloom — I mean, at least this one isn't the day before Valentine's Day — because I've got 13 Friday the 13th memes to poke fun at the superstitious calendrical coincidence, just for you. I'm living on the edge. Come at me, Voorhees.

Donald Dossey, founder of the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina, told National Geographic News in a 2004 interview that the United States experiences an $800 to $900 million drop in economic performance every time the 13th day of the month falls on a Friday. So, that's $2.7 billion in business down the tubes this calendar year on account of an unusually deep-seated superstition. $2.7 billion is more than the Gross Domestic Product of Liberia, because people stayed home on Friday the 13th.

I guess if you're contemplating staying home and binge-watching slasher movies to mark the occasion, you won't be alone, so take that as you will. Here are some memes to distract you from work/your thrice-annual triskaidekaphobia.