A couple of weeks ago, in early July, 2007, my partner came to me and said "Kurt, you are into numbers and dates and conspiracies, can you help me out?" And I said well what is this about?
He said that for the last several weeks the number 13 keeps showing up in his life, so I asked him for some examples which he gave me and I told him to forget about it, it just coincidence.
 
We went on a business trip to Minneapolis with our wives and we left for  the airport to go to Minneaplois on Wednesday July 18. As me and my wife were going through the security check point the TSA guard pointed us to checkpoint #13, which I avoided and we went through #14, My partner and his wife came to the airport later than us and as he approached me at the waiting area he informed that he and his wife went through secuirty checkpoint #13. And he said to me, "see 13 keeps showing up".
 
We flew into Minneapolis and took a cab to the hotel. I checked my wife and myself into the hotel  and we got a room on the 4th floor.  My partner checked into the the hotel and got a room on the 13th floor. Now I know many large hotels will skip the 13th floor and go from the 12th floor to the 14 floor.
 
We went to a show that night, as the tickets were handed to us by the hostess. My wife and I sat in seats 15 and 16, my partner and his wife got tickets for seats 13 and 14 handed to them.
 
On Thursday July19, after our business meeting we took a group dinner trip into the St. Paul area. As those familiar with Minneapolis already know you travel over the bridge on 35W to go from Minneapolis to St. Paul. That was the bridge that collapsed.
 
As we we were heading into St. Paul my partner pointed out a building clock to me which had the time 6:13 showing, and he said "see 13 again".  Coming back after dinner he pointed out a gas station which was showing the price of gas at $3.13.
 
Since we were leaving to go home on Friday (the next day) I went the hotel business center with my wife and printed out the boarding passes. I showed them to my wife and she said "That is weird." We were going to depart from Gate 13. I saw my partner the next morning and told him I got our boarding passes, then I asked him to guess which gate we were leaving from. He knew the answer from my question.
 
He had another trip and I didn't see him until Wednesday August 1. When I saw him I asked him if 13 was still showing up and he informed me that he took flight 1304 and that his destination was located on state road 13.
 
That night the bridge collapsed in Minneapolis. On Thursday I asked my partner if he realized that we were just on that bridge 2 weeks ago. His response was....how many days was it from the time we crossed the bridge until it collapsed? I thought about it and realized it was 13 days, but it just wasn't 13 days but 13 days to the hour. Now I know a lot of people crossed that bridge at the same time we did, but I only know one person who keeps seeing 13.
 
We will see what happens.
 
Kurt S