I used to be one of those but I was broke of the habit. I was walking down the street one day when I started hearing a bunch of kids hollering "thirteen, thirteen, thirteen. Well, my curiosity being piqued

I had to see what was going on. I traced the racket to a particular yard with a high wooden fence around it. I couldn't see in. Fortunately there was a knot hole in one of the boards so I stuck my eye up to the knot hole to look in and someone poked me in the eye with a stick. The kids suddenly started chanting "fourteen, fourteen, fourteen.