Unlucky Thirteen

I only hope that Friday 12th is alright for this.  While returning my library book the other day I noticed that, in the street adjoining ours, number 13 was missing.  Obviously the house was there, but it was numbered 15 not 13.
I understand that certain aircraft manufacturers do not label the 13th row 13, but had unobservantly not noticed this in the suburb before.  Well, now I had, I thought I'd check a few other streets on the way to the station today, only to notice that they all didn't have thirteens.
I mentioned this to my dad and he said "oh, that's common."