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Smoe Mexicans are renovating a allegedly haunted house

Cainkane1

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A Mexican American has bought a large old house that has a reputation for being haunted. He has hired workers to repair and renovate the house. It will make an excellent office building.

Some of the workers are afraid of the ghosts. They leave at dusk because they don't want to be there at sundown.

Anyone else ever have this problem?
 
Cainkane1 said:
A Mexican American has bought a large old house that has a reputation for being haunted. He has hired workers to repair and renovate the house. It will make an excellent office building.

Some of the workers are afraid of the ghosts. They leave at dusk because they don't want to be there at sundown.

Anyone else ever have this problem?
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Most people who hire superstitious tirds do.
 
fuelair said:
Most people who hire superstitious tirds do.
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Why single out workers from Mexico for this vitriol?

Idiot Americans still refuse to mark the 13th floor on their buildings.
Some 90% of Manhattan apartment blocks of 13 storeys or more do not mark a 13th floor. And the trend is increasing with new builds apparently.

Seems to me these "tirds" are merely being influenced by the tirds US society they live in.
 
EHocking said:
Why single out workers from Mexico for this vitriol?

Idiot Americans still refuse to mark the 13th floor on their buildings.
Some 90% of Manhattan apartment blocks of 13 storeys or more do not mark a 13th floor. And the trend is increasing with new builds apparently.

Seems to me these "tirds" are merely being influenced by the tirds US society they live in.
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The title referred to Mexicans, I did not. I referred to persons who are superstitious/ woo mongerers. AFAIK, Mexicans are no more so than any random selection of people.
 
There's a hotel in Niagara Falls, Canada that omits not only the 13th floor, but every floor ending in 4. (4 is the 'death number' in Chinese, i.e. very unlucky). So by the time you get to what's labelled as the 27th floor, the actual count is off by 4 (no 4, 13, 14, 24).
 
grmcdorman said:
There's a hotel in Niagara Falls, Canada that omits not only the 13th floor, but every floor ending in 4. (4 is the 'death number' in Chinese, i.e. very unlucky). So by the time you get to what's labelled as the 27th floor, the actual count is off by 4 (no 4, 13, 14, 24).
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I work in a hotel, here's what you need to know:

Every once in a while someone builds a new hotel with rooms numbered with 13, and within a year of opening those rooms are renumbered. People freak out about the number 13 on their room, and it's enough to force management into action.

On top of that it's tradition. A hotel dumb enough to have rooms with 13 is probable not very well run.
 
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Cainkane1 said:
A Mexican American has bought a large old house that has a reputation for being haunted. He has hired workers to repair and renovate the house. ......
Some of the workers are afraid of the ghosts. They leave at dusk because they don't want to be there at sundown.

Anyone else ever have this problem?
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Yes ...EVERY DAMN time I buy a haunted house (as a Mexican American) it's become a small problem with every one leaving at dark!!!!!!!!!

End result?? ... no over time ... jobs come in at 20% under quote.
 
EHocking said:
Why single out workers from Mexico for this vitriol?

Idiot Americans still refuse to mark the 13th floor on their buildings.
Some 90% of Manhattan apartment blocks of 13 storeys or more do not mark a 13th floor. And the trend is increasing with new builds apparently.

Seems to me these "tirds" are merely being influenced by the tirds US society they live in.
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Yep. In all my years of ghost investigations here in Vancouver, I'd say the local born are perfectly capable of holding their own, superstition-wise.

I had a discussion about this with a childhood friend a few years ago. We were having dinner in his livingroom at the time. He was talking about how superstitious Asians were, because they don't like 4s in their addresses. This is a guy who wouldn't buy a house that was numbered 454 because the digits added up to 13.

Anyway, during this conversation, I stood up from the table and walked over to the horseshoe nailed on his wall and turned it 180 degrees. "Don't do that! The luck will run out." I pointed out that this was pretty superstitious, and he said "It's different when it's real. Asian superstitions are dumb because they're imaginary."
 
Cainkane1 said:
No my question is this. Has anyone else had a problem with Mexican workers being afraid of ghosts??
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Not Mexicans, no. My British real estate buying agent was afraid of ghosts, though.
Wouldn't show us some houses if it was after dark, we had to book daylight showings.

One, she actually walked out of in the middle of the showing, as the previous occupant hadn't done a proper cleanup since the owner passed away, and the bed (which was in the living room) was still unmade and had a note on the bedside table with an "If you discover me dead, please call the following numbers..." note on it.

ETA: I sort of didn't want to be there either.
 
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Are you talking about Mexican S'mores? Yeah, I have a problem with them. Too hot to eat. Burned my mouth something awful. Burning hot peanut butter sticks to the insides of your mouth while it scalds away at your palate and uvula.
 
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