By Glen Turner – Special to the Sydenham Current
Numbers play in my head all the time. Is it the same for you?
Some numbers just ‘tweak’ my brain, and I wonder if it’s the same for you.
If you’re watching a clock, watching your microwave wind down, or just looking at the odometer in your car… does it tweak something?
It does with me.
9/11 is the best example lately – always gets a response in my head… and, it seems that many of the numbers that ‘tweak’ come from my past.
Some examples:
536 – the number on the house I grew up in.
318 – the engine size of My Dad’s old Plymouth Satellite.
99 – Wayne Gretzky’s jersey number.
13 – ‘unlucky’ and then, we saw the European hockey players wear #13 with apparent impunity 🙂
21 – Blackjack!
262 – the ME 262, the first fighter jet, German in WWII
7 – “lucky 7”
666 – of course
242 – the Canadian Fighter squadron commanded by the famous Douglas Bader in the Battle of Britain, 1940
109 – BF 109, the WWII German single seat fighter
6/6/44 – D-Day invasion
289 – the old engine size
Many more, of course – but, are you one of those people who carefully watch the odometer at ‘important’ times?
As in ‘Wow, it just hit 222,222.2!’
I’ve never taken numerology seriously, but I know people who do.
I wonder what numbers ‘tweak’ them? 🙂
