She's a little nervous today.
If you've looked at a calendar, you probably noticed: It's Friday the 13th.
And as the Associated Press says, this is "a day when people rearrange travel plans, delay surgery or just pull up the covers and stay in bed until Friday the 13th turns into Saturday the 14th, convinced that even stepping out of the house would cause bad luck to find them the way an anvil finds the head of Wile E. Coyote."
Elizabeth Lampert of Alamo, Calif., (photo) tells the wire service that she would "absolutely, absolutely" delay something like surgery. "There are only a few Friday the 13ths, so why test fate?" Lampert added.
About 1 in 5 Americans associate a Friday the 13th with back luck.
Some folks, though, laugh at such talk — even going so far as to get married on a Friday the 13th.
We're curious:
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