Friday 13th

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Hands up all those who would have sold their granny to stay in bed today? Me too!

I don’t care if you call it self-fulfilling prophecies, it is a day when what you think may go wrong often does. Take this morning as a fine example. Traffic at 06:45am each day this week has been light and swift moving. What happens today?

Just because it is Friday 13th, most commuters decide to not risk a train journey so go by car. But lets turn up the volume on this. Not only do they all drive in to the office, they all decide lemminglike to leave home and hit the M4 at the same time! How do they do it?

And then lemmings have to crash into each other! Nice. Why don’t we just bring down the barricades and force me to stay put in traffic while my reporting deadline trundles on regardless. Yes, guess what, I wanted to complete my already delayed report before 07:30am and have it ready for publication by 8pm. Fat chance! So two things have just been cocked up by jinx infested Friday 13th.

What else could go wrong? Would you believe it - Sweden goes wrong and do they care that my day is getting progressively worse? No way. For some reason or other but let’s call it a Friday 13th jinx, I get embroiled in a conference call at 09:25am that ends at 11:48am and although the issues are not my department’s concerns, guess who Mr CEO tasks to resolve them? Ja, you got it.

So they say things happen in threes. That is my three but let’s not count our chickens just yet - the day is but still a puppy! So how has your Friday 13th gone so far?