An homage to the number between 12 and 14

Throughout the world, millions of people did not fly in planes or play the lottery yesterday, in the belief that anything they did would immediately sour on the unluckiest of days. The number "you-know-what" has a long history of being considered unlucky at best and intolerable at worst, for reasons that have been buried in myth and forgotten in time. In the modern era, "that which shall not be named" has been omitted from buildings and airplanes, thereby lulling many people on the 14th floor or in the 14th row into a false and dangerous sense of comfort regarding both their safety and their ability to count. I'm sure this constant and age-old degradation of the ill-fated number has a profound negative impact on its sense of self-esteem. To you, lone number, I say persevere for a kinder tomorrow, and hope your day, too, will come.