Luckless On Fridays?

While it sometimes struck us that, "Oh, it's Friday the 13th," we've never really kept an eye out for unlucky events. Well, not much really - enough to know that there was never anything we'd consider unlucky. And so we'd never really remember our Friday 13s, except for one.

This one is rather memorable because it happens to be Friday the 13th, February 2004. Heh.

It was somewhere during this time that otousan, lad and us were into looking for fertile adventure grounds - like nighttime graveyard excursions (our idea). However there wasn't any good, hilly, dark unlighted graveyards with uneven tombstones and the such - the one near to us was brightly lit and police-patrolled. And even if it wasn't patrolled or dimly lit, the neat little graveyard wouldn't have spooked much.

Don't ask us why we treated Friday 13th as if it was Holloween's.

In the end we ended up on top of a water reservoir. It was...peaceful. So there we were, light chit-chat, no drinks or food tho', carefree, cool wind and no rain...bliss.

Somehow or other (we thinks it was because otousan had to work on Saturdays) we left the reservoir rather early...not too long after midnight if not wrong. Heading down the pathway back to the car we detoured by a fencing - we got sidetracked by the amount of cobwebs on said fence. And the cobwebs were huge. And then lad started catching bugs...to throw into the web so we could see spiders at work.

He'd pounce on one, bring it towards its doom, and -plik- we'll see the spider zero in on the trapped bug and do a quick effecient wrap-up using the cobweb. Images of Shelob spinning Frodo so he'll look like Boy George sprang to mind at some point.

We were doing this for quite a bit when a police car chugged up to us. Whoops. Hope they didn't see us up the reservoir.

Passenger seat window winds down...

"Malam tuan."
"You semua sedang buat apa ya?"
"Tengok labah-labah."

Expressionless look on policeman's face, turns to his partner, tells him, "Tengok labah-labah."

Passenger seat window winds back up...and the police car reverses off.

We all then realize that we're not juveniles anymore. And that ended our excursions.

So nope, Friday 13th (although that was technically Valentines) unlucky?