Sunday, 28 May 2017
Numbers and your Life
Numbers and your Life ©
By
Michael Casey
I
was looking at a house online, we are viewing it soon, and I thought
about the house number. It does not matter a damn or does it? Would you
live in a house numbered 13? Or would you rename it Thirteen, just to be
on the safe side? In the next street there was a house number 13, a man
died in it and his body was not discovered for a while. Would the
present happy family living there recoil if they knew. It was over 20
years ago, his name was Brian, life of Brian or death of Brian if you
like. He had a goatee and a very fat dog. So that’s number 13 for you,
not forgetting Judas being the 13th man.
In
Chinese the number 4 sounds like the word for Death, go to your local
Chinese takeaway tonight and ask them to say 4 and Death and see if you
can spot the difference. And get me some prawn crackers while you are
there. I bring this up because along time ago a house numbered 4 came up
but my wife immediately said NO. In Chinese there are 5 accents or
tones, so Ma can mean Mum/Ma or Horse. So be very careful with your
pronunciation. Or you could be very unlucky and get a clip around your
ear, no matter what number house you live in.
I’ve
just had a look at the Numerology site on the Internet its amusing and
makes you think too. Numbers and their combinations matter to people,
such as Birthdays and Anniversaries. So Numerology has much to say about
numbers though I could say much to say about nothing if I bastardise
Shakespeare. I will be meeting Will down the Trader in Old Forge and
Singing Anvil tonight so I’ll apologise to him then, he owes me a drink
for saving his life. But that’s not in any of his plays as Anne can be
quiet a bitch at times, his words not mine.
So 11th Nov
1977 , or 111177 is a magic number in my own life. My dad’s Birthday,
he was 56 then. I was 19, my life had changed, I had a door slammed and
locked in my face. Though it turned out to be a turning point in my life
as it led to me turning a corner and ending up as a computer operator 6
months later. I can remember my dad shaving in the kitchen sink, the
bathroom was so cold after all, and he said something would turn up.My
eldest brother said try computers and that led to secure employment for
21 years, the angel on my wall is the leaving present from that job.
So
that date is burnt into my brain, the other thing my brother said years
later was look at the negatives when buying a house. So estate agents
already know to their cost what I want, thanks to my brother’s advice.
Are
there any other special numbers, yes of course there are. The day I get
my first Royalty check, the day my play Shoplife is on the stage maybe
with Julian Cleary and Lilly Savage as my Angels. My mother used to say
with the Help of God and two Policemen. Perhaps God does finally help
with my Artistic side, and its 2 Gay men instead of two Policemen. I
have no idea what either of them knows about handcuffs and truncheons,
maybe they’ll taser me for my cheek, should I turn the other one?
I
should say though that would be Futurology, not Numerology, apart from
when the money comes in, though round the back of where I live there is
an accountant, we used to be altar boys together. Fact is stranger that
Fiction always, I just hope I have a talent to amuse people. That’s not
about numbers, lucky or otherwise, its about sweat and hard work. Though
the Help of God and Two Policemen would be greatly appreciated, whether
or not they are Gay is unimportant, just a sense of humour required.
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