She counted out another thirteen from the last shop on her list to her bus stop. This had to be another good sign.
Her bus was the number thirteen. She liked the number thirteen.
So why was it then when she went to her slimming club to be weighed, she’d put on thirteen pounds?
Could it have been her thirteen steps from the greengrocer’s to the bus stop?
Or was the damage done by the thirteen steps from the bakers to the confectioner’s?