Stuff Vietnamese people like

There’s no special reason why Vietnamese people like the day a lot, maybe just because it’s the day people can start passing messages around through Yahoo Messenger, and put them on the status of their social network pages. You wanna know what those messages are? Very simple. It’s Today’s Friday the 13th, or anything they got from other people.

Most Vietnamese people only know Friday the 13th as the day of bad luck. Few of them knows the origin of Friday the 13th or can actually tell a story about it. But they do acknowledge a few days ahead that the next Friday will be the 13th.

Friday the 13th seldom occurs. That’s why Vietnamese people make sure that they mention the day at least once. If they didn’t talk about it at all, they would feel like forgetting an important day in their lives. As if it were their wedding anniversary! Of course, Vietnamese people also grab this opportunity to impress people who don’t happen to remember this special day. The fact that other people will parrot unthinkable things they say make them very proud.

If you’re a white person, and wanna befriend with Vietnamese, learning some terms like paraskavedekatriaphobia, or telling your own experience of the day would be useful because Friday the 13th occurs thrice this year. They then can’t help running to the first person they know to retell your story.