Idle Minutes

Today is my birthday.

When your birthday is on Friday the 13th you take precautions.

So, on Thursday the 12th, around 10:00 pm, I had my birthday treat. You’re looking at it. It’s a Haagen-Dazs Chocolate & Dark Chocolate Ice Cream Bar.

I didn’t want to chance that the local Walgreen’s would be out of them today, being that it was Friday the 13th and all.

Or…or what if I ran out of gas today, Friday the 13th, and wasn’t able to get to the Walgreen’s! What about that?

Or…or…um…or what about if I had an awful fit of healthy thinking today, Friday 13th, and didn’t feel right about going to Walgreens and getting a Haagen-Dazs Chocolate & Dark Chocolate Ice Cream Bar…I’d miss my birthday treat! What about that?!

See? We Friday the 13th-er’s have to take precautions.

Yeah right! Excuses! Nothing but excuses! That’s what my wife said.

However, I might point out, at this crucial moment in this post, that any excuse to have one of these is a good excuse.

In fact, I even have an excuse prepared for her so that I can have one today, Friday the 13th…IT’S MY BIRTHDAY! hah!

You may Be Wondering…

So Don, what’s it like to have a birthday on Friday the 13th?

So far, in 49 years, pleasant. Let us hope today follows that same pattern and I sneak another one in.

So Don, is anything special about your little hoity-toity, April 13th birthday, other than it falling on Friday occasionally?

Sure there’s somethin’ special about it!
Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13th, 1743.

Thanks to Thomas Jefferson’s most famous document, The Declaration of Independence, I have certain inalienable rights!
Such as eating a Haagen-Dazs Chocolate & Dark Chocolate Ice Cream Bar. (Falls under that “Right to pursue happiness” part.)

And my fellow Americans, you do too! Now that’s pretty dang special ain’t it?