If not, try to look at the bright side. Not only is this Friday the 13th the only unlucky day of 2014 (albeit one that falls on a full moon), but your odds of getting attacked by a zombie today are pretty slim. Still, the freakiness of this day is socially ingrained. The betting advice site estimates as many as twenty-one million people around the nation fear this date causing an estimated $800 million in lost business dealings on days like today.
So, to put things into perspective, here is a breakdown of SportsBettingDime.com's odds of the calamities that might befall you today. What do you think you run the highest risk of occurring?
- Flight delayed 5/1
- Accidentally send an embarrassing text message 500/1
- Cable/Internet stops working 700/1
- Lose your keys 900/1
- Girlfriend/Boyfriend breaks up with you 1000/1
- Car breaks down 1000/1
- Lose your wallet 1100/1
- Lose your job 1200/1
- Get divorced 1400/1
- Lose your engagement/wedding ring 1600/1
- Get in a car accident 2000/1
- Power goes out 8,000/1
- Get robbed 8,000/1
- Get injured at work 10,500/1
- Computer crashes losing important files 12,000/1
- Unable to leave house due to Triskaidekaphobia 1,000,000/1
- Flight delayed due to black cat on runway - 10,000,000/1
- Get struck by lightning 182,000,000/1
- Pick every correct lottery number except #13 - 200,000,000/1
- Get bitten by a zombie – 50,000,000,000/1
-Aaron Sagers