Now I see why that happened!


"Today is the only day anyone ever uses the word "paraskevidekatriaphobia." You know what that means: fear of Today. Friday the 13th falls on a Friday this month, which makes it doubly unlucky. If you believe that sort of thing. I don't know why anyone would; the idea that some people are paralyzed with dread today strikes me a nonsense, and I don't care if they have a word for it. They have a word for the irrational fear of finding sheep in a phone booth, probably. People who suffer from phobiaphobia, which is the irrational fear of irrational fears, might hesitate to leave the bed today, but I doubt their numbers are great. Some suggest that 21 million Americans are afraid of today, and by "some" I mean the doctor who came up with the term paraskevidekatriaphobia, and has probably spent his entire life waiting for it to come up in a Scrabble tournament."